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On Jan 13, 12:10 pm, Graham P Davis wrote:
Peter Thomas wrote:
In message , Will Hand
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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 be fair to those smoking staff, why should they help?
They were on their break and it wasn't their job anyway.

Would you have helped them stack shelves?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl