Dear Jac – Page 56
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What price Sunday papers?
Jeremy Dore is selling up and wondered whether his Sunday newspaper service had a value…
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Christmas goodies - and a warning
Ian Taylor writes from the Moray Firth coast of Scotland, writes on the subject of Christmas sales…
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Drug pushers in the high street
I heard an interesting piece on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme in December…
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Turn mobiles into tills
Came the query from Mary Clark: we are purely cash, but a card machine would be handy for peak times…
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Is it Hobson's choice?
An anonymous reader has a beef with Booker’s overall policy on price promotions…
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Ain't got no satisfaction
Oh-oh, last year, in a July issue and then again in September I recounted Nigel Dowdney’s saga with Santander…
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Is it the end of the road?
I had an email from Glyn Reece (Penny’s, Chester) who styles himself as my ‘Norven correspondent’…
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Bright light on Horizon
The tide is turning for sub-postmasters caught up in nightmares with their Horizon system.
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Termination of the terminal
You might remember Iain Lyall’s summary of the 17 functions he had to carry out for one transaction…
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Notes on a music master class
I received an email from Gary Rogers who asked what music can be played without a licence…
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It was time for drastic action
Some people feel they have no place to go when dealing with monopolies, and that is true up to a point…
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A bolt from the blue
The morals of big businesses have been called into question lately. That came down like a big thumb on Jignesh Patel…
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Papering over the cracks
The kind (he says he’s a fan) Dilip Patel, whose Londis trades at Clapham Park in south-west London, offered feedback on two news-and-mags-related stories that I reported on two issues back. First, those soggy bundles.
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Jingle tills...jingle tills...
Jingle (hopefully) all the way. It is very good news that the government has refused to relax Sunday trading hours on December 23…
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Out of tune with the rules
Within a day of each other I had questions from two retailers regarding PPL invoices…
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Sitting ducks are easy hits
I’ve been contacted by two businesses which had instructed Amrit Johal over HMRC’s substantial seizures of alcohol…
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Got you by the short and curlies
Andrew and Sharon Carne’s reaction to Streamline’s cost of compliance had been similar: “What a cheek.”…
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It just doesn't add up
Stephen Cuthbert ‘summed’ up the dilemma of do-you/don’t-you offer PayPoint/Payzone services very well…