Sad day Mark. I am no longer a newsagent having retired 19 years ago. It was clear to me then that publishers’ loyalty to the news agency network was commercially outdated; that digital news delivery was imminent; and that coming generational change was to challenge what we had assumed was to be an ongoing unchanged market. In those earlier years, as a NANA Director, I suggested a tiered franchising arrangement, a common newsagent Australia-wide digitally mapped 13NEWS telephone number and marketing tool, and a ‘pack, wrap and despatch’ network. I argued that the newsagancy industry offered a chain of retail outlets uniquely geographically and demographically rpresentated across Australia. What might have been. Good luck.
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pat
typical
coles says jump they all ask how high
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Shayne
So customers can buy a paper from Coles present the coupon to the newsagent and receive whatever the free giveaway is at the time but the reverse doesnt apply. No double standards here!
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Colin
I had one customer in today wanted her free little shop toy, I pointed out that it is a Coles only promotion and she would have to go to a Coles store about 8 kilometres away . She stormed out in a real huff mind you she purchased her paper in Woolworths.
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pat
I pretty much got accused of lying the other day when trying to explain that we did not have a free scarf with elle magazine this month and was more likely a supermarket promotion.
Sad day Mark. I am no longer a newsagent having retired 19 years ago. It was clear to me then that publishers’ loyalty to the news agency network was commercially outdated; that digital news delivery was imminent; and that coming generational change was to challenge what we had assumed was to be an ongoing unchanged market. In those earlier years, as a NANA Director, I suggested a tiered franchising arrangement, a common newsagent Australia-wide digitally mapped 13NEWS telephone number and marketing tool, and a ‘pack, wrap and despatch’ network. I argued that the newsagancy industry offered a chain of retail outlets uniquely geographically and demographically rpresentated across Australia. What might have been. Good luck.
typical
coles says jump they all ask how high
So customers can buy a paper from Coles present the coupon to the newsagent and receive whatever the free giveaway is at the time but the reverse doesnt apply. No double standards here!
I had one customer in today wanted her free little shop toy, I pointed out that it is a Coles only promotion and she would have to go to a Coles store about 8 kilometres away . She stormed out in a real huff mind you she purchased her paper in Woolworths.
I pretty much got accused of lying the other day when trying to explain that we did not have a free scarf with elle magazine this month and was more likely a supermarket promotion.