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

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

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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 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

On Jan 13, 6:26*pm, "Col" wrote:
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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 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- Hide quoted text -

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Point taken Col........but I was usually in a bitter, twisted frame of
mind at 0300 hrs in the pouring rain...

BUT, I am a non smoker, and the only break I get is a lunch break:-)

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On Jan 13, 6:26 pm, "Col" wrote:
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Point taken Col........but I was usually in a bitter, twisted frame of
mind at 0300 hrs in the pouring rain...

BUT, I am a non smoker, and the only break I get is a lunch break:-)

I was assumimg that they were smoking on 'official' breaks.
No smoker should get extra breaks just to feed their habit.

How much off-topic can this get
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

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On Jan 13, 6:26 pm, "Col" wrote:
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Point taken Col........but I was usually in a bitter, twisted frame of
mind at 0300 hrs in the pouring rain...

BUT, I am a non smoker, and the only break I get is a lunch break:-)

I was assumimg that they were smoking on 'official' breaks.
No smoker should get extra breaks just to feed their habit.

How much off-topic can this get


Just displaying the usual intolerance, shown on this newsgroup, of any
alternative to the collective opinion.

Why slate people because they're having a fag? It's not illegal (yet) is
it?

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Jim

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In message , Col
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On Jan 13, 6:26 pm, "Col" wrote:
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Point taken Col........but I was usually in a bitter, twisted frame of
mind at 0300 hrs in the pouring rain...

BUT, I am a non smoker, and the only break I get is a lunch break:-)

I was assumimg that they were smoking on 'official' breaks.
No smoker should get extra breaks just to feed their habit.

How much off-topic can this get


Just displaying the usual intolerance, shown on this newsgroup, of any
alternative to the collective opinion.

Why slate people because they're having a fag? It's not illegal (yet) is
it?

Read what I wrote, idiot.
I wasn't slating smoking per se, rather if they were taking extra
breaks in order to do so.

Simple enough for you?
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl