Australian Newsagency Blog

We decided to have another crack at party goods brought in the range from Alpen just over a month ago. We’ve placed this display behind our main newspaper stand, next to our card department. Sales are good, generating a good return on the space and sock investment.
The only downside about the move is […]

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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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It is good to see the case WA newsagents have against West Australian Newspapers finally get to court. The Australian had the story yesterday. This battle has been around for years, costing newsagents hundreds of thousands of dollars as they had to absorb increased wages and costs including fuel. No increase for […]

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Stationers Supply, a warehouse supplying newsagents in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, has reportedly decided to remove 3M products from its product mix. This is nuts. 3M brands like Scotch, PostIT and Command are important to newsagents. For a warehouse to remove them will only harm the warehouse as newsagents will source what […]

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We have carried Christina Re invitation and paper craft products in our newsagency for more than four years. Sales have been up and down over. The fall came when the supplier put the range into another store in the centre - they closed a year or so later.
It’s a fashion business this invitation […]

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Last year we reached agreement with the folks at Art Cart to put their unique range into the three of our newsagencies. We felt the products, pencil cases, would work with young kids and take us away from traditional stationery and into a more socially connected product. We spent considerable on the range […]

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The Brand Power ad for Bic pens and markers on TV last night closed with the tag line: check out the range of Bic stationery at your local supermarket now. I guess there is no point in newsagents carrying the Bic product anymore.  I’d guess that across our retail network we have in excess […]

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