Magazine sales were very strong in my newsagency this Christmas – double digit growth in the three weeks to Christmas Day. The main kick was in Women’s Interest, Crossword, Special Interest and Sports titles. Looking deeper, it’s in titles where newsagents do not have a competitor. Balancing the growth was a significant fall in computer, motoring and teen magazines.
Magazines the hit of Christmas sales
Mark
December 27th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Category: Newsagency challenges
4 responses so far ↓
1 Jeffrey Miles // Dec 27, 2006 at 3:34 PM
Magazine Chirstmas sales are up, but they don’t give enough newspapers to the newsagents. Like today’s Herald Sun, with the Shane Warne hero poster, where I live (Lynbrook, Victoria) every newsagent and supermarket has sold out of them and no I can’t get my daily newspaper because of one poster. They should put more newspapers in newsagents and supermarkets.
2 mark fletcher // Dec 27, 2006 at 3:42 PM
I agree - on a day like today ever6yone knew the papers would move well. We received plenty thankfully. Ask your local newsagent to order one for you - they can do such backorders.
3 Jeffrey Miles // Dec 28, 2006 at 9:27 AM
Why should I get a back-order, because then they slap a extra charge just to print out the paper. Old papers, all they should have is the normal paper cost, that’s all
4 mark // Dec 28, 2006 at 9:30 AM
The cost should be the cover price. That’s all.
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