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Jac Roper
Jac Roper is editor for Convenience Store's Dear Jac column.
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Dear JacWestern Union have been chasing me for money I don’t owe for two years
”I ran Handersons for approximately 30 years and not once in those many years defaulted on any payments to any supplier I dealt with”
- Dear Jac
Cardtronics has left my ATM empty for weeks
Two retailers have been in touch with Cardtronics issues, what’s going on?
- Dear Jac
Get a free automatic hand sanitiser station for your store
Here’s an interesting proposition for you – a free hand sanitiser dispenser… And they promise no catch whatsoever
- Dear Jac
Why I got rid of National Lottery tickets and newspapers from my store
Dear Jac hears from a frugal retailer who thinks carefully about what he offers to customers
- Dear Jac
Is it legal for pubs to sell alcohol in takeaway plastic milk bottles?
And how about home delivery for alcohol?
- Dear Jac
No-one wants to buy black bananas. Not good for the image
This retailer thinks a load of monkeys are in charge
- Dear Jac
Swapping track and trace cig stock in the nick of time
It will happen as soon as they let the reps out again
- Dear Jac
Maybe they should take more care with their headlines
Very few retailers are profiteering – instead they are going out of their way
- Dear Jac
An important clause
I had a very interesting query from Ron Letcher who trades as a Londis in the West Country. He asks: “What is the law on smoking if your policy is no smoking? I have two members who constantly break our rules.”
- Dear Jac
You won’t be able to class this as ‘easy listening’
And its makers say it was very difficult to record under lockdown
- Dear Jac
The former subpostmasters’ success in the High Court prompted action by the Post Office
But it won’t help any of those who took part
- Dear Jac
There is a clamour over Cardtronics blaming the pandemic for hiking fees
And they are reneging on the deal for those previously exempt
- Dear Jac
Self-distancing was non-existent at this branch
There was such a scrum I don’t know how the eggs survived
- Dear Jac
Availability in the south-west has been worse than other parts
And the trouble is, there is no alternative
- Dear Jac
Overstayed welcome?
Mumtaz Ahmed was extremely surprised to get a charge notice for £100 from overstaying the 120 minutes permitted free parking at his local Booker branch by another 35 minutes.
