All Dear Jac articles – Page 57
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Dear Jac: Choice? It certainly isn’t always yours
Monopolies only seem a good idea to those in charge. Yet there also seems to be a worrying trend towards them.
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Dear Jac: Nobbled by a lease from the past
Back in the dark ages, some local authorities had serious views on what retailers were allowed to sell.
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Dear Jac: Lady luck isn’t shining for these two retailers
Remember those horrendous floods in 2007? Jenny and John Jackson who run Toll Bar Post Office in Toll Bar, Doncaster, will never be able to forget. During that drenching summer their store was ruined.
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Dear Jac: Kishor to the rescue
In early December I was contacted by a retailer who wishes to remain anonymous. He has a post office and 500sq ft to play with.
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Convenience 2015: Lean green machines
Environmental concerns and energy costs are driving huge technological changes which will radically alter the look of our stores, says Dave Visick.
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Dear Jac: A question mark over Horizon’s IT
There is just room here to report that Computer Weekly, which has been closely following the problems subpostmasters claim to be suffering over their Horizon accounting system, says that "a sub-postmistress accused of theft from the Post Office has...
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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: 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: some dates for next year
The EU market flipped the 'off' switch on incandescent lamps on September 1.
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Dear Jac: Health and Safety on the stupid side
I'm sure you will all join me in wishing those in charge the best of health and safety for the new year.
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Dear Jac: The old and the new
I got an email from Kate Grundy who asked me how to go about doing top-ups for mobile phones.
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Dear Jac: Roll up – retailer requires feedback
Forecourt operator Tony Barlow wants to hear from anyone who has had wrangles with till roll suppliers who first send unwanted stock and then demands for payment.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.