All Dear Jac articles – Page 65
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Dear Jac: Hot off the presses, but why so slow to arrive at your door?
Newspaper wholesalers have 'absolute territorial protection', and it sounds like the OFT will be preserving this monopolistic stance for the foreseeable future
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Dear Jac: This sort of attitude just doesn't add up
Bhavin Patel stocks up at Costco's Chingford branch in Essex, although I get the impression it is not often a happy experience.
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Dear Jac: Report your losses, if you can get through
Mike Andrews, who runs a Spar store in rural Dorset, sums up the sort of complaint that I frequently receive about news wholesalers.
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Dear Jac: The rent goes up all the time, so where is the maintenance?
I'm again looking for feedback, but this is a very difficult one.
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Dear Jac: It's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to selling alcohol
Retailer Brian Fitzgerald and I put the world to rights the other day.
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Dear Jac: Here's some advice on cameras
I asked for feedback for Sam Shah who wanted some recommendations on buying or leasing CCTV.
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Dear Jac: Note Machine strikes a sour note
When a firm’s caring, sharing side fails to show
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Dear Jac: You can't count on the bank's support
Javid Chaudry used to have PayPoint in his store, Newsplus in Kirkcaldy, Fife, but his service has been suspended thanks to his bank, HBOS, rejecting a direct debit.
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Dear Jac: When Murphy's law struck here it was a bolt out of the blue
Back in August Wasim Shazad had his British Gas meters changed to one of those new 'Smart' meters at his Best One store in Leeds.
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Dear Jac: Word of mouth is always the best recommendation
Amit Patel emailed a query that immediately got my attention. "I have been recommended that I switch my energy supply to a company trading by the name Utility Warehouse."
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Dear Jac: Friend or foe? Entrapment never used to be a police tactic
No one likes to take on the police. You want them to be Britain’s finest, on your side, fighting the villains. But they sure as hell ain’t perfect and here’s a really horrible story to prove it. Raj Patel, Leeds, rang to complain...
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Dear Jac: Sting in the tale – picking on the softer targets
And how about this one? Vijay Patel runs The Paper Shop in London’s Holborn, a district I happen to know well. Camden Council (notorious in many ways to us Londoners) sent in a tall 15-year-old boy to test purchase. “It’s cheating,” protests Vijay, “...
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Dear Jac: Like fine wine…it has taken years to perfect this software
I am still on the epos subject as John Middleton, of ShopEase Retail Software, broadens it a little. He says: “We have sold news agency software since the early eighties, which will operate on any up-to-date PC and does not require a link to epos.
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Dear Jac: There’s software galore to manage the news for you
In our last issue Budhu Mal wondered if I knew of a software package that he could use to manage his newspapers and magazines. He wanted something he could load onto a laptop that would do all the price changes, holiday stops and starts and so on...
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Dear Jac: One by one they are taking out the competition
Dru Patel sent this comment via our website: “I’ve read about PayPoint suspending terminals because of retailers not getting rid of their PayZone machines. “However I actually did get rid of mine after they demanded it. Next, they asked me to get rid of Barclaycard.…
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Dear Jac: Now the police are interested in the Halifax case
I asked if anyone else had suffered losses from their bank account in London’s Woolwich area following the case of Naresh Sandhir, who lost £8,000 in a week from four deposits to cover PayPoint, Lottery and bus passes at his local Halifax branch...