Sorry 13th parish, the states keep putting up the cost of living, I may be wrong but Poundworld ( and other businesses ) get hit all the time. How about the new harbour charges, charging £1.20 per ton per container, out of the blue, a new charge on goods coming into Jersey 40 tons means another £48. The GST 3% plus a load of unpaid paperwork for the business to collect money for the States.
The problem being most of the increases are States department greed, reports and orders of fee increase, signed by Ministers who have never run a business. More empty shops, more people forced out of a living simple becuse they cannot cope with rises like 24% in electricity, the big one. At home you can cut back, there shops have very little option but to pay. Imagine being a butcher with all those fridges running, are you going to put your prices up 24% in this economic climate. How short sighted and sad !
The good news is that very soon States Departments will get much less work from small medium retail businesses, because there will be so few left.
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