The Advertiser/Sunday Mail are looking for energetic motivated individuals to join an exciting new venture preparing and delivering newspapers to home delivery and retail customers.
This text is from an ad running at CareerOne for the Adelaide Advertiser, part of News Ltd’s stable of newspapers. South Australian newsagents are naturally concerned about what this exciting new venture may be. Reading the rest of the advertisement, it sounds like the work delivery only newsagents undertake today.
Some newsagents are giving up uneconomic runs so the new venture may be around that. The rising cost of fuel along with pressure from within publishing companies for a reduction in supply chain costs means that the newspaper distribution model is in play at the moment.
It will be interesting to see what the new venture in South Australia is and what ipact, if any, it has on newsagents.
There are many small delivery rounds in SA running at a substantial loss.
I know of one who loses 25c per paper thrown. N/As are reluctant to stand up to ANPL because of their arrogant and bullying attitude. Their argument is that what you lose on deliveries you make up for on other sales.
I wonder how they will make these rounds attractive to a new wave of suckers.
John S