Empty shelves on a Monday: Magazine retreat continues
No magazines for you (James Manning/Mumbrella)
With still no word about a buyer for Australia’s biggest print and digital publisher, Are Media has forged ahead with a cost-cutting measure that changes print magazines on sale dates around the country.
As one of the shrinking number of buyers visiting my local newsagent’s magazine racks on Monday I was greeted with empty shelving at the front door and a note about the non-arrival of the weekly magazine drop.
“Apologies for not having your magazines today,” read the message.
It then briefly explained why: “Our magazines will now arrive once a week on Tuesdays between 8am and 5.30pm.”
I tried 4 different shops in Geelong trying to buy the TV on Friday. These shops always have deliveries on a Wednesday. With the Public Holiday that would have made it Thursday.
All the shop assistants said the same thing that they had a short delivery.
If this is going to be the norm I’ll be extremely upset. I have been a regular buyer for as far back as I can remember. One supermarket I enquired at had a shortfall of 28 delivered. This is one very unhappy customer.
I always looked forward to getting my magazine fix from the newsagent. As a teenager, I would go to the local newsagent after to grab either Dolly, Girlfriend or TV Hits, Smash Hits or Countdown magazine.
As I got ‘older’, it was Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire.
I’d read Mum’s Australian Womens Weekly for the articles and the recipes always turned out.
I hope they still publish magazines as it’s a break from the screen and the glossy pictures and showbiz gossip always got me hooked! ❤️