On Jan 13, 12:10*pm, Graham P Davis wrote:
Peter Thomas wrote:
In message , Will Hand
writes

At least we don't have to buy newspaper comics. I haven't bought a paper
for at least 10 years and I never will again. If they go under in this
recession I for one won't be shedding many tears. Good riddance.

Funnily enough there were high stacks of unsold tabloids in the local
Sainsburys when I bought our papers on Saturday *- Mail in particular
seemed to be over-stocked.

May simply have been a late delivery....

I think most newsagents, I don't know about supermarkets, get their supplies
from W H Smith and they seem to use a random-number generator to decide how
many papers to supply.

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. *E-mail: newsman not newsboy

In a pst life I was a lorry driver delivering bulk supplies of
Saturday and Sunday papers to Supermarkets and Newsagents in Cambridge
(and I wasn't working for WH Smith). Part of the job was collecting
unsold papers the next day. It seemed to me that supermarkets
espicially took pleasure out of ordering 3 times as many papers as
they needed, just so I could carry the bundles twice instead of once!
Some supermarkets had nearly a quarter of a tonne of papers, and it
didn't matter how many staff were smoking outside of the supermarket,
none of them offered any help (sorry, there was a guy at Waitrose who
carried a few bundles for me, once).

To make my life easier, I would put the 25kg bundles into supermarket
trolleys (about 6 bundles per trolley) at the rear of the lorry. I
soon came to realise that there is not a supermarket with a car park
that isn't on an incline. I lost count of how many times the trolley
took itself for a jaunt across the (thankfully empty) car park!!

Regards

Paul