Stafford shops closing - Turning into a ghost town?

cj1

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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Short dated, Short coded, Out of Date, Beyond Best Before, Discontinued Stock, Embarrassing Stock, De Identified Stock, Excess Stock.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
 

tek-monkey

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the big difference is that company is openly selling out of date stock, people foolish enough to buy it will take their chance.
Yum yum was selling out of date stock but not advertising it as such. I only discovered it was out of date by checking the dates on individual packets, which is usually well hidden and in very small print.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.

They also don't obscure it and it's legal, trading standards don't care unless you mislabel or break other food laws. This is fact, yum yums can't have been warned like you previously said as there is nothing to warn them about.

You're weird, you bitch about the state of the town then bitch about retailers that actually risk their own money on opening a shop. What is it you want, other than to moan?
 

Goldilox

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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Short dated, Short coded, Out of Date, Beyond Best Before, Discontinued Stock, Embarrassing Stock, De Identified Stock, Excess Stock.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

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 I'm assuming that's out of date packaging and the like, but I really really want it to be that some office junior inadvertently ordered 200 cases of penis shaped chocolates....
 

Gramaisc

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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 I'm assuming that's out of date packaging and the like, but I really really want it to be that some office junior inadvertently ordered 200 cases of penis shaped chocolates....
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?
 

HopesDad

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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?
Almost certainly none.
 

HopesDad

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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
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.
 

kyoto49

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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 say 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."
 
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Really?

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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."

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
 

HopesDad

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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
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.
 
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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

Hi cj1,

Information on the difference between "best before", "use by", "sell by" and "expired by" dates can found on the Food Standards Agency website here:

https://www.food.gov.uk/science/microbiology/use-by-and-best-before-dates

The key difference is that a "use by", "sell by" or "expired by" date is an indication of safety and food or drink passed this date should not be consumed or sold, whereas a "best before" date is an indication of quality and food or drink passed this date is still good to consume. We serve thousands of customers throughout the UK, some from the Staffordshire region, who we certainly would not agree with you that they are "foolish enough to buy it". In fact, anyone who saves a minimum of 70% on their weekly shopping bill whilst having perfectly good and perfectly priced clearance products delivered to their home or work is quite the opposite.

Hope this helps!
The ClearanceXL Team
 
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