All Scams articles – Page 8
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Scam and the city – for once the feds are for real
Scam and the city – for once the feds are for real
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Driving a big gap through your profits
I am still getting complaints from retailers about drivers.
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How to rate your supplier without tears
A quick reminder yet again about ratings consultants.
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Quick-footed thieves are everywhere
This warning comes from a retailer who wishes to stay anonymous and has even asked that the cash & carry involved remain anonymous as well.
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Are these individuals driving down your profits?
This is the third issue running that I'm reporting on alleged crooked drivers working for a chilled food supplier.
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Who's pinching the chilled food profits?
In the last issue I reported a worry from Matthew Wetton about chilled food drivers who appeared to be freezing his assets.
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Have you encountered a crooked driver?
Matthew Wetton asks: "Have any of your readers complained about supplier theft or fraud specifically within the direct-to-store chilled food sector?"
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How to put in an appeal for pennies
When Chris Andrews got a cold call from a rating specialist at Bolton-based Morgan Whittackers, she explained that she was hard of hearing.
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Coins of the realm - just note which realm they're from
Harjeet Mann has become so irritated by the amount of foreign and fake coins that people try to pass off at his store in Chesterfield that he sometimes confiscates them.
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Head off those rating bandits at the pass
Just when I should be writing about jolly things like the jingle of tills, I find it's the jangle of spurs instead. The cowboys are back in town.
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ECG - a hardy perennial that has sprung up
Scams are costing people in this country billions of pounds a year - Radio 4 says so.
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The nice old gent and his broken cane strike again
In the last issue I reported on Anne Everton's store being targeted by some 'nice old gent' who wrote to her claiming to have fallen over in her doorway.
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Heard the one about the 'nice old stick'?
He wrote an undated letter to 'the manager' at Anne Everton's tiny store on an estate in Battle, East Sussex, to say that he fell over in the store's doorway while he was there on holiday.
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Customers in the hallway? How diverting
Customers should know their place - and it isn't on your landing.
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How to stop the European City Guide
I feel as though I have always been writing about European City Guide (ECG), but every so often I get calls from yet more worried retailers who finds themselves with a bill for E937 (£643) for some spurious listing.
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Don't get distracted by a clever crowd
Dave Fenwick, who owns two stores, one at Wootton Bassett and another at Marlborough in Wiltshire, rang to say he had just been robbed - twice.
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Dear Jac: Always room for one more scam
Have I told you that my 'scam' file is now second-biggest in my filing cabinet? Sadly, 'crime/security' is still my biggest file. Put the two together and I would need help in lifting them.