Nicole White from a newsagency in Castle Hill has created a Facebook group which calls on the NSW Government to NOT sell NSW Lotteries. Facebook members can join group and support small business newsagents who rely on NSW Lotteries products to generate traffic. The pitch at the Facebook page is:
NSW State Government is conidering selling off NSW Lotteries (is it because they are broke?)
Once an asset like that is sold – it can NEVER be bought back!
Support your local Newsagent and say “NO Mr Rees – do not sell off our Lottery”.
I know from my own knowledge of how NSW newsagents are treated and how marketing opportunities are funded that the Government ownership of NSW lotteries serves consumers and newsagents retailers well. In other states, under commercial ownership, retailers fare more poorly as do consumers from what I see.
I’d urge you to support the Facebook group.
would u like someone to stop u selling ur newsagency? no.. i thought so. lets stand back a little… we r all in businesses.
this issue is small change compared to internal industry problems, e.g. membership, associations, centeralised IT, warehousing, depots, magazine supply, industry decline and inept national association and the lack of joint promotional campaigns.
newsagents r so poorly represented nationally because so few in our industry have worked in national organisations at management lkevel.
major professional retailers have almost wiped us off the map simply cos they can.
though we match them in buying power and combined wealth but we r not in the same league re political clout & sharp organisational structures… in fact we r in the school yard league. the nsw lotteries has every right to sell any/all of their business as they see fit. newsagents without lotteries like home deliveries is our future…get used to it.
the retail side of our industry, the one under extreme threat of extinction, will be very surprised how successful they are, if they challenge the majors on an equal footing with our combined financial might and similar professional business structures.
the age of the general store is over.
our future is professional management, centers of excellence and speecialisation.
bob allen
north nowra
Robert, the government selling off state owned assets is effectively your employees selling your business. Hindsight is showing that selling public assets, eg, water, electricity generation, public transport, roads (BrisConnect!) has not been the success that was promised.
Why sell a certain stream of income for a once-off boost to state coffers?
govt says they will get ‘royalties’…great as long as the private business stays in business….remember 40% of nothing is at best nothing if not another ongoing cost we weren’t warned about.
Do we want the supermarket giants (Coles & Woolworths) to have the monopoly on everything we buy – groceries, bakery products, meat, fruit & veg, alcohol. Now even petrol. If they (Coles & Woolworths) are able to sell lottery tickets there goes the local newsagent along with the demise of the local butcher, the corner grocer, the fruit & veg shop where they used to offer customer service and the local bakery.I remember when milk was delivered to your door step fresh every morning! Is there any such ting as an independent bottle shoe any more? We are headed down the same road as the US – mega marts & open all night drug stores No local village shops No customer service Is this what we want?