Re: Magazines Question

[begliocchi]

Thank you everyone who responded to my last post. The long and short of it is, I run the Mags department at my Canadian bookstore and have a lovely woman who is "taking it to Head Office" (boy, does that ever put the fear of death and taxes right in me!) about our practice of not removing the freebies, and that we're "the ONLY store in Canada" to

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[ratatusk]

That's stupid. I work for the same company and we never take the cd's off.

[kingshearte]

All of this just serves to reinforce my very strong belief that magazines are ***WAY*** more trouble than they're worth in the store in question, and probably just about everywhere else of that nature. I don't work there anymore, but when I did, I spent probably at least half an hour a day handling magazines, and I didn't even work in a heavy magazine debris type area. Those who worked in an area with more seating, or in the mags department itself spent far more time on them. Between the extremely low profit margin on mags even if you were to sell every single one of them, the fact that most of them just get read in-store and not bought, and the number of man-hours spent on maintaining the section, I can only imagine the piles of money being lost on them. I truly believe they should be scrapped. If people want a nice magazine selection, let them go to a magazine store. Or at the very least, the mags should be enclosed, and confined to their own area. With no seating.

[unntrlaffinity]

30 minutes sounds like a magazine paradise. The store I worked at you found piles of them everywhere, sometimes more than one person could comfortably carry, like they made multiple trips to create work for me.

And let's not talk about the various places and states that you find the porn.

I'd vote for nixing them and leaving it all to magazine stores, but we don't have things like that around here. Curse the realities of different economies. And our struggling library system.

[kingshearte]

Like I said, I didn't work in a high-debris area. Other sections dealt with a hell of a lot more.

[key_ton]

same bookstore and I work in back. It's my job to receive and sort the mags before they are put out. likewise if taking the extras off has to happen its my job to it. As if I have time for that? Between mail, DC shipment and the hundreds of mags from ONS and LMPI i do NOT have the time to do that for every mag and frankly if the customers want to be mad at anyone they should be mad at other customers not us.

[bitwhizzle]

I work for the same chain...and really...all Head Office is going to do is give her a $10 gift card and send her on her way...