No more cheques please
February 16th, 2008 by Donncha
It’s high tech in the retail industry! No more cheques in Marks & Spencer stores from March 1st! I find it hard to imagine anyone paying for goods by cheque these days.
Business dealings seem to be different though. One of these days we’ll figure out a safe way of handing over our bank details to business partners without getting signed up for a monthly subscription to some charity like a certain Jeremy did a few weeks ago ..
Oh yeah, cheque is a check. I can never get my head around that. “Check” is a verb, not a noun!
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February 18th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Yes, I find it strange that people would want to pay by cheque…
There’s one customer we’ve got and I can only imagine they are over 80 - never asked as we are mail order company - but amazingly he types out his cheques with a wobbly typewriter. It’s a bit like those kidnap demands written from individual letters cut from the newspaper.
March 20th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
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