I work in a small retail store. Newspapers, magazines etc. Typical corner shop store with a Post Office. Publishers and Wholesalers seem to be going out of their way to completely alienate the entire rest of the industry, be it printers, carriers or retailers. We sell newspapers and magazines on a sale or return basis, but getting credits for returns has got so bad we take photos and CCTV of the quantities we’ve returned in order to force the wholesalers to give us the credits we’re owed and lets not even get into everything involved in making sure we received the correct quantities in the first place and trying to get credits for short/no supply.
The number of times we see delivery orders from customers cancelled after a price hike for a newspaper that’s mostly paid for adverts is astonishing only in that the publisher seems completely surprised by it. Two of the local papers in our area keep putting the price up due to dwindling sales, but the dwindling sales is driven by the price per non advert page in said newspapers. It’s got to the point that both local papers cost more than 10 pence per non advert page, most of which is garbage anyway.
It’s a dying trade with everything going electronic media, and the Publishers and Wholesalers know this. They’re just marking time and trying to squeeze every penny out of everyone else that they can before the whole industry implodes putting a remarkable number of people out of work.
Yeah…those keep shrinking and shrinking. ☹
I work in a small retail store. Newspapers, magazines etc. Typical corner shop store with a Post Office. Publishers and Wholesalers seem to be going out of their way to completely alienate the entire rest of the industry, be it printers, carriers or retailers. We sell newspapers and magazines on a sale or return basis, but getting credits for returns has got so bad we take photos and CCTV of the quantities we’ve returned in order to force the wholesalers to give us the credits we’re owed and lets not even get into everything involved in making sure we received the correct quantities in the first place and trying to get credits for short/no supply.
The number of times we see delivery orders from customers cancelled after a price hike for a newspaper that’s mostly paid for adverts is astonishing only in that the publisher seems completely surprised by it. Two of the local papers in our area keep putting the price up due to dwindling sales, but the dwindling sales is driven by the price per non advert page in said newspapers. It’s got to the point that both local papers cost more than 10 pence per non advert page, most of which is garbage anyway.
It’s a dying trade with everything going electronic media, and the Publishers and Wholesalers know this. They’re just marking time and trying to squeeze every penny out of everyone else that they can before the whole industry implodes putting a remarkable number of people out of work.
Yep, it’s a sad situation…