Australian Newsagency Blog

I am grateful to the Comag Marketing Group for publishing this memo from Wal-Mart which calls for magazine supply quantities to be based on store level sales in the interests of the environment. Wal-Mart is reinventing itself around a strong position on environmental and sustainability questions.
To: All National Distributors and Publishers
From Christy Jenkins
Subject: Magazine Bottom […]

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The folks at Network Services played a joke on Victorian newsagents Friday sending out boxes of the NRL 2008 select album and card packs. Not only is the NRL season more than half over but this is Victoria! NRL products don’t sell down here. Yet we still received four boxes. My […]

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We received nine copies of Scrapbooking Memories on May 30.  Today, June 27, we returned all nine, replacing them with the next issue of this title.  I am not alone in experiencing a zero sell through rate, it happens in every newsagency for at least several titles a month.  I’d like to see a guarantee […]

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Magazine distributor Network Services has joined other magazine distributors and decided to drop paper based magazine returns forms for newsagents with compliant software and business practices.  This move is most welcome.  It gets newsagents closer to genuine time savings from returns scanning.  The less newsagents hve to interact with the Network website for tasks their […]

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The machine in the photo vends books and magazines 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is the brainchild of Novel Idea vending, a UK company which has been placing in this space since 2001. Cosmopolitan magazine is one of the magazines being vended through this device at Gatwick Airport. […]

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Network Services has redistributed a Eighties: The Decade Collection, a one-shot which failed to set our newsagency alight with sales a year ago. I guess the Indiana Jones photo encouraged them to have another crack.
I’ll give it three or four weeks, no more - given the poor performance last time around it is […]

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Newsagents Direct Distribution and Tower Systems are proud to announce the most significant development for newsagents in the magazine supply model in decades.
Thanks to new software and back office processes developed over eight months through a joint project with NDD, Tower Newsagents will soon have access to a supply model which more closely matches their […]

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As I blogged a few days ago we did not receive Take 5 stock on Wednesday. While replacement stock arrived late that day, the damage was done as the photo which I took yesterday shows.
We sell around 75% of our Take 5 copies on the on sale day. Even being without stock for […]

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I am trying to help a newsagent get approved by a magazine distributor for processing magazine returns electronically. The distributor says no because the newsagents has only sent sales data for 50% of the trading days of the month.
Fair enough, the newsagent should be sending sales data every day. However, this is a […]

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With more newsagents operating more than one shop it is interesting to see how they manage magazines between the businesses.
One smart operator has established their own magazine distribution centre, centrally arriving stock and barcoding each copy prior to shipment. This reduces labour at the retail level. They centralize returns too. […]

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