@heldavidson has 4,857 followers on Twitter. I responded on Dec. 30 with There are plenty of good newsagents in Sydney though.
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Carol
I had a male customer come in and say “Thank goodness , a Newsagent that has a choice of magazine. Our Newsagent at (nearest coastal town) has turned into a gift shop and has got rid of nearly all their magazines”) I think I have too many but its a bit hard to be a “Newsagent” with a reasonable range. The poor Newsagent was probably struggling to survive and may have been put on stop supply if they hadn’t paid their account.
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Jack
Ah my mistake must have misinterpreted the picture. Good to see reporters standing by their main delivery channel.
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Paul
Who is she and more importantly who really cares ? We don’t know where she went, the size of the newsagency, when etc or if shes actually even making it up. I think the fact that shes a journalist for a start says something about how shes pitched her tweet.
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Carol
Unfortunately it is this sort of publicity that is making the good newsagencies hard to sell.
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jenny
You have to agree there are a lot of bad newsagencies (I’ve seen plenty in Sydney), BUT more importantly there are a lot of great newsagencies! Hope she mentions those when she comes across them.
Jenny, your comment identifies a massive challenge for newsagents who trade under the newsagent or newsagency shingle. The good and the bad are lumped under the one name yet the gap between the good and the bad is extraordinary. This is where groups can play a role if they are disciplined in the quality of businesses trading under their names. It also highlights a challenge for associations as they have no capacity to drive compliance – hence their lack of relevance.
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Stacey
This popped up on news.com this morning. Reading the comments though people have seen through the sensationalist garbage it is. I’d like to hear the agents side of the story before passing opinion.
Yesterday they ran a headline on the front page along the lines of “Scratchie winner told his ticket was a misprint” and only after clicking through do you find it’s from New Mexico. Not sure what they’re angling for but definitely in the mood for running down lottery.
good thing she only has 10 followers.
She has nearly 5000 followers and states she is Guardian Australia s Darwin correspondent ‘. Maybe she was looking for her online paper!!
? A newsagent with only 2 row’s of magazines ? Wait until gotch finds out they are obviously not doing a good enough job in over supply
@heldavidson has 4,857 followers on Twitter. I responded on Dec. 30 with There are plenty of good newsagents in Sydney though.
I had a male customer come in and say “Thank goodness , a Newsagent that has a choice of magazine. Our Newsagent at (nearest coastal town) has turned into a gift shop and has got rid of nearly all their magazines”) I think I have too many but its a bit hard to be a “Newsagent” with a reasonable range. The poor Newsagent was probably struggling to survive and may have been put on stop supply if they hadn’t paid their account.
Ah my mistake must have misinterpreted the picture. Good to see reporters standing by their main delivery channel.
Who is she and more importantly who really cares ? We don’t know where she went, the size of the newsagency, when etc or if shes actually even making it up. I think the fact that shes a journalist for a start says something about how shes pitched her tweet.
Unfortunately it is this sort of publicity that is making the good newsagencies hard to sell.
You have to agree there are a lot of bad newsagencies (I’ve seen plenty in Sydney), BUT more importantly there are a lot of great newsagencies! Hope she mentions those when she comes across them.
Jenny, your comment identifies a massive challenge for newsagents who trade under the newsagent or newsagency shingle. The good and the bad are lumped under the one name yet the gap between the good and the bad is extraordinary. This is where groups can play a role if they are disciplined in the quality of businesses trading under their names. It also highlights a challenge for associations as they have no capacity to drive compliance – hence their lack of relevance.
This popped up on news.com this morning. Reading the comments though people have seen through the sensationalist garbage it is. I’d like to hear the agents side of the story before passing opinion.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/pensioner-claiming-1161-tatts-windfall-in-tears-after-being-turned-away/
Yesterday they ran a headline on the front page along the lines of “Scratchie winner told his ticket was a misprint” and only after clicking through do you find it’s from New Mexico. Not sure what they’re angling for but definitely in the mood for running down lottery.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/money/new-mexico-retiree-john-wines-won-500000-on-a-scratchie-only-to-be-told-the-ticket-was-invalid/story-e6frfmci-1227177178252
Stacey I have started a separate thread on this.