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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    Again with this nonsense that just absolves people of personal responsibility. Basic essentials such as lentils, chickpeas, oats and so forth are not more expensive than frozen pizzas and chips. If you're going to have kids, you need to make time available to spend 15 minutes whipping up a basic...
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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    Your mentality is baffling to me. Imagine going into Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and everything is just brown, drab, and lifeless. This is the trajectory you seem to see no issue with. I'm afraid if this isn't something you instinctively know is a problem, I won't be able to explain it to...
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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    Please read the thread :)
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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    If a child is obese, their family is probably also obese. All eating the same garbage foods for every single meal, and swishing it down with a glass of fizzy pop. Stopping them seeing things like pizza or chocolate on their PC or TV before 9pm is really going to turn them all into slim and...
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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    Are you seriously suggesting all chocolate should be packaged in 'plain packaging'? What kind of communist dystopia do you want us to live in? Our products are not advertised to children to begin with so we're wondering what type of ban is coming into force. A ban on advertising directed at...
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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    Things like Instagram and Facebook ads can be targeted at 18+ year olds so if this legislation is aimed at children, one would hope we'd be able to continue to promote our products to adults.
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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    Hi Mark, I will try writing to our MP thanks. We sell chocolate that's pretty standard in terms of nutritional values, so high in fat and sugar. I genuinely don't think banning advertising of these types of foods will make any difference to obesity levels but it will harm business.
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    Online junk food ban = chocolate business over?

    The government are set to bring in a ban from 2025 on "Junk Food" advertising on TV before 9pm and online "at all times". How are small confectionery businesses like mine meant to market ourselves? We rely heavily on Instagram and Facebook adverts, as do most businesses. I hope some sanity...
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    Fed up with Royal Mail

    Thanks for your reply. Yes, all the couriers suffered and as mentioned in my reply to the other user, the confidence in online shopping fell substantially. We used DPD and EVRI as backups. Tried to use DPD when financially viable, but delays got so bad that I had to beg them to take a boot load...
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    Fed up with Royal Mail

    I've always wondered what motivates users such as yourself to reply to threads in this way. All you do is antagonise with your snarky, know-it-all attitude. Maybe you'd do great working in management with Royal Mail. To respond to your points, we did have back-ups in place. I find it hard to...
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    Fed up with Royal Mail

    Sorry, this is just a rant and not particularly constructive but maybe it will help others think twice before working with Royal Mail. We switched away from RM last year to a competitor because of their farcical service during the repeated strike action. We ended up suffering a huge loss in...
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    Dropping PayPal as a payment option?

    Thanks for your reply, that's encouraging to hear. Yes, that's another reason to get rid of PP. It's rare that there's a problem but we've had experiences where people won't even bother contacting customer support before going straight to open a Paypal case and locking our funds in the process...
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    Dropping PayPal as a payment option?

    That's true. I think public reviews and social media presence are the most important in establishing initial buyer confidence. If a company has no social media links that's a deal-breaker for me.
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    Dropping PayPal as a payment option?

    PayPal seems to be becoming less common (no longer the only option on eBay), so I'm used to paying by card more often. I suppose if it was a lesser-known, independent webshop I'd be more inclined to pay via PayPal but it wouldn't be a deal breaker.
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    Dropping PayPal as a payment option?

    Many thanks for the response. We'll give that a go and do some customer surveys.
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