Dear Jac - Competition

Point or zone? More conflicting views roll in

Last Updated 11/08/2008 00:00
My most recent coverage of the PayPoint saga has prompted another flurry of responses, not all of them negative.
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Use it or lose it, that's the message to communities

Last Updated 18/04/2008 00:00
For the increasing number of ex-subpostmasters, it's sink or swim time.
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When two suppliers don't add up to choice

Last Updated 04/04/2008 00:00
The tripartite news wholesaling monopoly that has carved up the country into their preferred patchwork has generally meant that retailers have only one choice of wholesaler supplying the news.
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Symbols escape Code

Last Updated 07/03/2008 00:00
The Competition Commission (CC) has confirmed that symbol groups and wholesalers will not be included in its extended Code of Practice for the grocery supply chain, GSCOP.
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A reprieve for one is a death knell for another

Last Updated 07/03/2008 00:00
Now for a little light relief - post office closures.
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Controlling drinking: should you therefore control price?

Last Updated 07/03/2008 00:00
Septuagenarian Eddie Pittman was distinctly unimpressed by Tesco's gesture to the nation's health: something should be done about cheap booze.
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What would you have to cough up to compete?

Last Updated 22/02/2008 00:00
Jag Sanghera, who runs D&S News and Off Licence in London's Shepherd's Bush, thought he had found a good deal for Halls Mentho-Lyptus at the confectionery wholesaler Hancocks.
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Why penalise those fighting to survive?

Last Updated 25/01/2008 00:00
Many people will be outraged by Post Office Ltd's apparent decision to cut back the financial compensation package for any ex-post offices taking up alternative ways of supplying certain customer services.
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The people's Post Office? Which people? Which PO?

Last Updated 25/01/2008 00:00
Did you see the ads on telly over Christmas? The people's Post Office all comfy and cosy like in the old Hovis ads.
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Life's a lottery - you can't win them all

Last Updated 11/01/2008 00:00
Camelot has responded to my (what I thought was favourable) coverage in the November 30 issue, where I recounted Andrew Renham's tale about his local competition.
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