We received twenty-three (yes, 23!) copies of the Cheesecakes mini cookbook from Bauer yesterday. Under ACP we used to get ten and ended up returning five or six. Bauer takes over and now we get twenty-three. This is ridiculous, a waste of time, space and cash. Maybe this over-allocation is a result of less human resources involved in the allocations process. Something is wrong and if others have been oversupplied like me small business newsagents are suffering the consequences. Bauer are supposed to be the sales based replenishment experts.
Instead of spending money on conferences and training sessions and telling newsagents how important we are to their business, Bauer should invest in a fairer allocations process. This is what newsagents care about the most – fair allocation based on sales data.
Mark,, We got 15 and usually get 4 or 5, the surplus obviously went straight back with returns yesterday.
Rec 12, returned 8 oh and hate the new captcha code
3 Which is normal
Love the new captcha code
No more than usual but they just don’t sell. In fact we hardly ever sell an Aww cookbook of any size anymore. Have one full row if Aww cookbooks and think maybe that’s too many pockets.
If we are voting on this I HATE the captcha code, my old eyes can’t read the squiggly one !
Captcha numbers are all good but would be good to loose the letters
ahh good day when all there is to complain about is captcha codes 🙂
We didn’t receive any. I suppose there’s a first for everything.
I like the new numerical captcha codes. The letter ones are far too hard to read (even for a 25yr old with almost 20/20 vision)