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Why do newsagents have to pay for electronic invoices for magazines?

My POS software company, Tower Systems, serves 3,000+ retailers in the jeweller, bike shop, gift shop, garden centre, firearms dealer, fishing bait and tackle shop, toy shop, music shop, produce business, sewing shop and health food shop retail channels, as well as newsagents.

It is only newsagents who have to pay their supplier for electronic invoice data, which is ironic because coupled with the electronic invoice data is returns data that saves the supplier a tremendous amount of money.

It’s time that EDI was provided to newsagents at no cost whatsoever.

The current arrangement is rooted in the practices of decades ago.

I wonder if our supermarket competitors have to pay for this.

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  1. Kyle

    You can see he’s copying you.

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  2. Mark Fletcher

    Careful Kyle, he doesn’t like being called out.

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