Latest from Dear Jac – Page 42
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Dear Jac
What do you do when the cops come calling?
First of all – make sure they are who they say they are…
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Dear Jac
Should you pay and display?
The cost of a Camelot upgrade is £90 and one retailer takes exception…
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Dear Jac
The moans about PayPoint are many and various
This one concerns PP’s CashOut scheme and its commission…
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Dear JacUncivil servants
If you have traded since 1997 you don’t expect the council to suddenly tell you to stop selling on Sundays…
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Dear JacConspiracy theory
What is a ‘regular’ customer? That was the short, intriguing question on my answerphone….
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Dear JacThe cost of compliance
That soft ‘compliance’ word comes at a hard cost in the retailing world…
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Dear JacMissing mother's ruin
Alan Dunn (Open All Hours, Keswick) wrote: “I am banging my head against a brick wall.”…
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Dear JacIt's not elementary
Here’s one for the books: Rajesh Ganatra rang with a puzzle that would try Sherlock…
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Dear JacAn open and shut case
When your store is called Wineworld you most definitely need shutters…
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Dear JacMore rubbish
Just when the government is making a big hoo-ha over its reduction of red tape for small businesses, I get a call from Peter Mistry…
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Dear Jac
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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Dear Jac
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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Dear Jac
An Olympic battle
If you have ever had roadworks outside your store you’ll spare a thought for Julian Taylor-Green.
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Dear JacWhat a load of bankers
Banks are in the news again they have been playing fast and loose with our money. Who knew? Well, yep, we all did
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Dear Jac
Wake up and smell the coffee
You would think, if you had a nice-looking, recently-done-up Nisa store in North London’s Islington, that coffee could well be a go-er