AAP reports that sales at Office Depot dropped 17% in North America in the fourth quarter - 18% when looking just at same store sales. This fall demonstrates how challenged the office supplies business is in the United States and, most likely, worldwide. Given the closure of OFIS by Harvey Norman and anecdotal evidence around, […]
Entries Tagged as 'supplier arogance'
Leveraging falling stationery sales
February 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Newsagency opportunities · supplier arogance
4 Ingredients 2 costs us too much
January 4th, 2009 · 9 Comments
Magazine distributor NDD sent us 18 copies of 4 Ingredients 2 cookbook on Christmas Eve. There is no justification for this - especially since 4 Ingredients 2 is available from book retailers for between $15.00 and $17.95. The newsagent price is set at $19.99. Our margin is a magazine margin and not a book margin so […]
Tags: magazine distribution · magazines · supplier arogance
Tattersalls claims Quick Pick
June 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tattersalls has claimed that it owns the term Quick Pick meaning that Intralot has had to ditch tonnes of printed material and come up with a new name. While we will work hard to pitch their Lucky Pick to customers, customers will call it what they will. If it catches on, customers wanting a Tattersalls […]
Tags: Lotteries · supplier arogance
Dead counter space
June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tattersalls withdrew all remaining instant scratch ticket stock in Victorian Monday, leaving 40% of the counter space allocated in our Forest Hill store empty with no prospects of new product. A threatening letter from their Senior Corporate Solicitor Monday indicates that they intend to fight to retain “their” space. Dead counter space is commercial suicide. […]
Tags: Lotteries · supplier arogance
The art supplier competing with newsagents
June 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
For a couple of years we did well with the Mont Marte artist supplies range. Things went off the rails when they could not supply some items to us while continuing to supply their own retail store in Melbourne as well as customers who ordered the same products direct through their company’s e-commerce website. Their […]
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Who is celebrating Darrell Lea?
November 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: confectionary · supplier arogance
Cultish reps need a cool down
October 29th, 2007 · No Comments
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Inside the magazine supply changes
September 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Newsagency challenges · magazine distribution · magazines · supplier arogance
The magazine model fails again
September 24th, 2007 · No Comments
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Newsagent locked out by software company
September 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
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AstroLog magazine oversupplied to newsagents
September 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
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Darrell Lea misses sales opportunity
September 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments
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Keytek goes direct and undercuts newsagents it supplies
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Stationery · supplier arogance
APEC Summit too much for Sydney Morning Herald
August 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Tags: Newsagency challenges · Newspapers · supplier arogance
Publishers discuss OH&S
August 17th, 2007 · No Comments
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The newspaper home delivery subscription rip off
June 22nd, 2007 · 5 Comments
Tags: Newsagency challenges · Newspaper marketing · supplier arogance
It wasn’t me, sir
April 12th, 2007 · No Comments
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Inspector Morse partworks stuff up
March 14th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Tags: Newsagent suppliers · magazines · partworks · supplier arogance
How many airline magazines is too many?
March 5th, 2007 · No Comments
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Understanding Vodafone
February 13th, 2007 · No Comments
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NDD, the company that keeps on giving
January 31st, 2007 · 4 Comments
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Overcrowding in children’s magazine space
January 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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The drug pusher and the junkie who wants to go clean
January 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: Media regulation · magazines · supplier arogance
Cloth Dolls & Bears - the magazine that never dies
January 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments
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Christmas is soooo yesterday
January 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: marketing · supplier arogance