All Dear Jac articles – Page 59
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Dear Jac: Fingers crossed for no freeze-up
So I wasn't totally surprised when I got a call from a Camelot retailer worried about his terminal, which rather regularly freezes up.
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Dear Jac: Look before you lease
get no pleasure in telling you that I have had 96 calls from retailers since last summer complaining about photocopy company Lanwall Systems.
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Dear Jac: Justice on the Horizon?
Some two dozen sub- and ex-postmasters formed the Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance with the goal of publicising what they see as serious flaws in the Post Office's Horizon accounting system
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Dear Jac: Take your Choices
Kevin Davies, who runs a Londis in Llanberis, Caernarfonshire, sent back about £1,200-worth of retail DVD stock that he had bought from Choices UK as it was agreed that old stock could be returned.
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Dear Jac: Quit gassing around!
It's all very well the likes of us advising retailers to get their notice in, in order to switch to a cheaper energy supplier, but sometimes it takes months of hassle to make it happen.
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Dear Jac: Fake vouchers? Read all about it
When it comes to fraudulent vouchers for 'free' copies of The Times being 'rampant' (I'm borrowing a Sun word here), News International doesn't give a fig about letting retailers know.
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Dear jac: what happens if we lose our local school?
Matthew Slater rang to ask where he could get information on the impact that the loss of a local school would have on its village.
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Dear Jac: VAT is going up
Certain queries make my heart sink and my head hurt. VAT is top of the list. But I am heartened to hear that others find it puzzling, too. John Turner, who runs Turner's Newsagents in Leeds, emailed the following: "I wondered if you could find out...
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Dear Jac: charging for carrier bags
Here's a little retail detail bit. Jeeta Bhadal runs a Londis in Leeds and he rang to say that he had started charging 5p for carrier bags. It's win-win, he says.
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Dear Jac: More outrage about Payzone
Harjeet Mann from Chesterfield writes: "Just letting you know that I'm a now a former Payzone top-up retailer thanks to the new charges applied for minimum level of transactions."
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Dear Jac: our rates have risen 210%
Gin and Sam Palmer, who run a Spar in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, are facing a colossal rates rise of 210% this year about £28,000 extra, owing to the fact that the town is doing well compared with a few years ago.
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Dear Jac: a lease over your head
You will not be surprised to hear that I often get calls about leases. This one was interesting because Jag Sanghera, who runs DS News in London's Shepherd's Bush, has a high-profile landlord...
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Dear Jac: Pressure grows over Post Office's Horizon
The magazine Accountancy Age has added its voice to the call for the Post Office to act over IT concerns
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Dear Jac: Should news stay an open market?
Once upon a time news supplies were tightly controlled
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Dear Jac: Cracking the telephone codes
I'd like to give you a masterclass in telephone codes, but I think the Da Vinci one may have been simpler to fathom
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Dear Jac: a story about rubbish
Mohammed Asif writes from Teem Spirits in Reddish, Stockport, is wondering if a baling machine would help with his rubbish problem
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Dear Jac: Read the fine print, then negotiate
Michael Green, who runs Green's Newsagents, rang from Scunthorpe to say he had been "stitched up like a kipper" by business transfer agents RTA.
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Dear Jac: Heading them off at the pass
Do watch out again for those business rates cowboys. Every year I warn about them several times, and every year some people fall for it. But they didn't fool Subas Patel, who runs Choc Box at Chessington in Surrey.
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Dear Jac: The enemy on the doorstep
It might not say Tesco above the door, but sometimes a new branch of a c-store chain can still hammer the nails into your coffin.
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Dear Jac: Here’s some sound advice
Pam Dhesi made a mistake when she told the Performing Right Society (PRS) the truth about having a TV set upstairs above the store.