All articles by Jac Roper – Page 27
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Dear Jac: The retailer, the business transfer agent and the court case
The retailer, the business transfer agent and the court case
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Dear Jac: Can you put a price on principles?
I've had an email from Hamdy Shahein. Nothing new in that as we have been in touch from time to time over the past 14 years. Nothing new, either, in his tireless campaign to keep his East London store pornography-free, which is invariably the subject we discuss.
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Dear Jac: A lottery win!
I'm pleased to report that Camelot has reinstated Asif Rabbani's terminal in York.
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Dear Jac: ID - get their number and it will count
A couple of issues back a retailer commented in this column that Trading Standards had pointed out that a refusals register to prove you don't sell booze to the underaged was pointless because you could just make it all up.
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Dear Jac: A scale of charges for cashback?
Garveen Goram was faced with a dilemma. He was on the verge of signing up with Hanco for an ATM. The deal was no payment for the first 150 transactions and after that the £1.50 transaction cost would give him 90p and Hanco 60p. However, up until now Garveen has ...
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Dear Jac: Hassle from the hoodie hooligans? Blitz 'em
Sprita Patel rang in exasperation over groups of kids hanging around her store, Sprita One Stop in Nottingham.
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Dear Jac: Where can I find suppliers of.......? (fill in blank here)
In retailers' quests to add that je ne sais quoi extra to their business, they sometimes ask me for the more obscure suppliers of products and services. This time it was singing donkeys and those old-fashioned sweetie jars.
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Dear Jac: You'll be the loser if you don't follow lottery rules
Not a lot of people win the lottery, and not a lot of retailers sell big winning tickets, so therefore not a lot of people know this: you must get Camelot's permission before you tell the press about a winner, even if that person has agreed to publicity.
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Dear Jac: Still trawling for feedback here
There is only room left here for a reminder about Spar retailer Subhas Patel's request for feedback from any retailer who has dealt with SD Media.
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Dear Jac: VAT - do we have a ghost of a chance of getting it right?
I should have known better when I said in the last issue that the ghost of VAT on top-ups was laid to rest. It has come back to haunt me, more like.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: The ghost of VAT on top-ups is laid to rest
That Very Awkward Tax has perplexed this column for the past few issues in its relationship to commission on telephone top-ups.
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Dear Jac: Is this a cheap solution?
The couple who started the whole saga about VAT and telephone top-ups are Subhash and Rama Varambhia from Snutch Newsagents in Leicester.
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Dear Jac: The best way to get rid of fridges
I hope Shailesh Patel, who runs AW Food Hall at Bexley in South-east London, reads this because I cannot get in touch with him.
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Dear Jac: When you are on holiday, who's in charge of the alcohol?
Harjit Singh, who runs High Heath News in Walsall, was going to Cincinnati for three weeks to attend a wedding. As this is being written a tenant is doing the relief management for him.
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Dear Jac: Goods for sale, skills for hire
Michael Mercer runs West Hill Stores at Hednesford in Staffordshire. But not for much longer.
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Dear Jac: Is the Copyright Protection Office really a con?
No, it isn't a scam but one can forgive any retailer from wondering as they tend to show up like number 9 buses.
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Dear Jac: Understanding the court of Camelot
Ranjit Thind rang me after I last wrote about Camelot and the have-not retailers who believe they are as deserving as the next outlet to sell the National Lottery.
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Dear Jac: No need to get burned over the new fire regs
The current fire regulations run to more than 100 pieces of legislation. All this is to be swept away in October - long overdue as it was meant to happen in April this year.
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Dear Jac: Have you put local advertising to the test?
Four retailers have contacted me over the past year to relate their dealings with a company called SD Media, which puts together ads to run in post offices, doctors surgeries and so on. In all four cases the retailers claim that the rep had signed them up for a trial ...
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Dear Jac: The scam slot - healthy as ever
Revisiting a very regular subject, here's the news on a couple of the recent cons doing the rounds.