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Saturday 14 March 2015
Not Washed or Cooked, # 213
Dr Faustus may have found this shouty appeal from the management in a Co-op staffroom… It is dubious in both its wording and its punctuation:
evenry; 1 weeks’ salary; we have wasted , as a store over £83000 worth [&c]
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