Newsagents can experience unexpected costs when magazine publishers switch distributors. Take Vogue, the latest issue is from through Gotch while the old issue is through NDD. Our NDD returns for the month have been processed so we now have to hold the unsold stock for a month. The alternative is to do a supplementary return but the labour and delivery cost of this is not worth the amount.
This is another frustration with the magazine distribution model which adds to our operating costs. Publishers should think of this before they switch distributors and allow for the costs we face.