If the future of newspapers is on your mind, read the sobering column by Roy Greenslade writing at The Guardian about a recent study which showed that of those who did not read a newspaper regularly only 3% consulted a newspaper website regularly.
The competition for eyeballs if fierce – not only for news content but across a range of areas well served by magazines and other media outlets.
Our challenge as retailers is how we configure our businesses so they are flexible to cope with changes forecast in the study to which Greenslade refers. For many newsagents, there is no option as these issues are not being canvassed sufficiently by newsagent shopfitters and designers.