HopesDad
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Pity you did not do your research before posting, rather than afterwards.Sorry, my mistake, it's the Lichfield Yum Yums. Closed Christmas Eve and never re-opened. No notice given to staff or landlord.
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Pity you did not do your research before posting, rather than afterwards.Sorry, my mistake, it's the Lichfield Yum Yums. Closed Christmas Eve and never re-opened. No notice given to staff or landlord.
And trading standards will just think you're a prick, nowt wrong if it's best before.Good. Half the stuff they sold in there was past its sell by date. I have reported them to trading standards several times.
They have visited the shop on at least two occasions and warned them.I bet trading standards were straight down there looking for an out of date curly wurly.
I call bullshit.They have visited the shop on at least two occasions and warned them.
not sure if trading standards are aware of this company
http://www.clearancexl.co.uk/foodanddrink
Short dated, Short coded, Out of Date, Beyond Best Before, Discontinued Stock, Embarrassing Stock, De Identified Stock, Excess Stock. Please note: We do not sell food or drink past its Use by date
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the big difference is that company is openly selling out of date stock, people foolish enough to buy it will take their chance.
Yum yum was selling out of date stock but not advertising it as such. I only discovered it was out of date by checking the dates on individual packets, which is usually well hidden and in very small print. Most people will not check this andate therefore bring misled. That is why trading standards were so interested.
not sure if trading standards are aware of this company
http://www.clearancexl.co.uk/foodanddrink
Short dated, Short coded, Out of Date, Beyond Best Before, Discontinued Stock, Embarrassing Stock, De Identified Stock, Excess Stock. Please note: We do not sell food or drink past its Use by date
Or penis-shaped Oxo cubes?Embarrassing stock? I'm assuming that's out of date packaging and the like, but I really really want it to be that some office junior inadvertently ordered 200 cases of penis shaped chocolates....
Almost certainly none.Or penis-shaped Oxo cubes?
Back to your chocolate example, it could easily occur if ordering chocolate coins, which used to be popular items in my youth - "200 cases of chocolate pennies" needs only very slight errors to become "200 cases of chocolate penis".
I wonder how many times it has happened?
That's a total non-story. Some of those places opened months ago. And more have opened than closed in that time, although for some reason this little piece of in-depth investigative journalism does not mention them.So, if you can get past all the irritating adverts and surveys, Staffordshire Newsletter is today reporting several new businesses opening in Stafford, many of them independents. http://www.staffordshirenewsletter....-in-stafford/story-30027618-detail/story.html
Council have clearly acknowledged that the north end is a problem and done something positive - never thought I'd live to see the day!! Doesn't day how long the discount is for mind....
"Meanwhile, Stafford Borough Council is offering a 100 per cent discount on business rates up to a maximum of £10,000 in Crabbery Street, Gaolgate Street, Gaolgate Place, the Guildhall Centre, Princes Street, Salter Street, Stafford Street, Market Street, Malt Mill Lane and part of North Walls. The aim is to attract more businesses into the north end of town."
The council won't even have thought it through that far. It is just headline-grabbing hype, a smokescreen to cover the fact that as usual our clueless council are not actually doing anything at all.Not that I am cynical but is there any more detail here? - From April this year there will be no Business Rates to pay if the rateable value is less than £12,000. Do they mean an extra £10,000 on top of that, meaning that there would be no rates to pay until the Rateable value hit £22,000 or are they saying that its £10,000 payable which means you would not have to pay the first £10,000 payable thereby letting people go for premises with a rateable value of £32k ish
not sure if trading standards are aware of this company
http://www.clearancexl.co.uk/foodanddrink
Short dated, Short coded, Out of Date, Beyond Best Before, Discontinued Stock, Embarrassing Stock, De Identified Stock, Excess Stock. Please note: We do not sell food or drink past its Use by date