The second day of the GNS Market Fair in Melbourne today was excellent. Busy. Plenty of newsagents through. My feeling is that it was busier than last year.
Congratulations to GNS for such a good fair.
I split time between the Tower Systems stand and the newsXpress stand. Both did well, coming away with new business and leads from newsagents keen to do business. You know you are doing well when competitors spend time watching your stand.
I enjoyed the business discussions I had with many newsagents and many newsagent suppliers today and yesterday. There is a developing conversation among many around the question of basket size and how newsagents can improve this. This started off at the recent Newsagency of the Future sessions and is now developing more widely as more in the channel realise that this is a key issue and opportunity for us.