All articles by Jac Roper – Page 22
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: This is a rotten story
I must warn that the following is not for the fainthearted and it could be argued that a story full of maggoty rot has no place in a wholesome food magazine.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Essex girl? C'est moi, I fink
Let me just sit back for a minute, fling off my white stilettos and say that I'm proud to be an Essex girl.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Publishing scam revealed
Linda Dance faxed me from her store, Tatsfield Post Office near Westerham in Kent, with yet another variation on the old publishing scam.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Publishing scam
These publishing scams tend to come along like rashes - all over the show for a while, then it goes quiet.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Power supply
Ossie Aujla's four Nisa stores in County Durham were supplied by Scottish Power.
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Dear Jac: Cheap banking tips
A Cornwall newsagent rang with a good tip on avoiding cash handling charges.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: On power - and the Post Office
Christine Donnelly, from Great Milton Post Office and Stores, Oxfordshire, has responded via email to two separate pieces I wrote.
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Dear Jac: Rights and wrongs of unwanted mags
A thoroughly fed-up Alan Davies called from The Corner Store at Morriston in Swansea to ask who owns the magazines you pay your wholesaler for.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: What's it worth to you?
Let's talk money, and bear with me because there is a point at the end.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: A clever play-on-words scam
Pravin Limbachia was one of a number of retailers who called about the 'Whodunnit in Doncaster' tale.
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Dear Jac: Let us count the ways retailers can be on the losing side
In this intricate economic climate I have to hand it to Link, which is right up there in complexities.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Retailer and supplier are Poles apart
The great Polish food rush, which saw many stores stocking up on foreign flavoured meats and pickles to cater for the incoming workers from Poland, is over.
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Dear Jac: Now there's a relief; some good feedback
In the last issue I asked if anyone fancied a fortnight on a busman's holiday, running a village store in Hampshire for Geoff and Lyn Porteus so they could get a much-needed break.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: You need the energy to fight your corner
Raju Sachdev wrote from Ashton-Under-Lyne to say that his business was with E4B until it went into administration.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Who can you count on today? Not the banks
We all hate banks right now. I personally have hated them for ever as an institution that regards itself above institutions, but that’s me.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Watch your backs: the knives are out
I was interested to talk to George Thompson, general secretary of the National Federation of Subpostmasters