This photo shows part of the cover of a magazine received in a newsagency yesterday, sent by Network Services. Click on the image and look at the detail. That gunk on the cover is from stickers placed on these titles when they were on sale in other newsagencies.
As the angry newsagent who tole me about this wrote in their email: How dare they send unsaleable magazines.
Shame on Network for sending out such poor looking product. Where is their quality control? Non existent clearly.
This title is now on its third time around from Network Services. What appalling behaviour.
Shame on you Network Services and shame on the publisher involved in pushing this title on newsagents.
That this has happened speaks to the weak situations newsagents find themselves in. Our major competitors are not treated this way. That this is done to us disadvantages us, it makes us less competitive.
Could this also be why they are pushing XIT to electronic returns label?
No label, less “Damaged” stock, more re-issues old junk titles.
not only is their distribution gabbage their accounts need a lot of changing so their a/c can be reconciled easier.the person who implemented their system should be sacked straight away.and not being able to get invoices in order till morning of on sale is the biggest joke going around. been a newsagent for 18yrs and we get dished up this gabage
Robert it’s dreadful that in your 18 years things for newsagents in relation to magazines have got worse and not better. We are disadvantaged because of our treatment.