Lads' mags have 6 weeks to "cover up": your reaction, please!

Magazines barely make any profit, Pan. The reasin to stock them is to attract customers who may then also purchase a drink, bar of chocolate, cigarettes or a birthday card at the same time. Choosing to not stock an entire genre of magazine cuts out a large proportion of customers as a newsagent. Conversely I probably wouldn't notice if my local newsagent stopped selling a magazine I wasn't interested in. I very much doubt it would increase custom while lads mags continue to be sold elsewhere.

Well done Coop.
I've banked with them all my adult life and made sure my DCs do as well.

I cannot think of a bad word to say about them, accolades all the way.

And whining at the publishers is a bit weak, or am I missing something??

I think you are. If the publishers wrapped all these mags, then unless a retailer deliberately unwrapped them, then all these covers would be hidden. Job done.

Great step in the right direction .well done co-op

I'm already a member and shop there regularly

News - would you consider stopping stocking them altogether? It can only be a teeny proportion of your profit? And once it's known you don't stock, and why, then your footfall would increase?

And whining at the publishers is a bit weak, or am I missing something??

I am a newsagent and have actively made arrangements in my shop so that youngsters cannot view the "top shelf" and "lads" magazines for some time. I fully support your campaign and wish that all the magazines were available in "wrapped" versions, some are already but not enough. Its a good thing that the Co-op are responding to this, but at the end of the day it is ultimately the publishers who need to act. It would also stop purchasers treating the place as a viewing room!

Fantastic! I don't want my ds growing up thinking beauty only comes in one form - ie. plastic, gravity defying boobs, calfornian tan, bubble butt & so on. Nor do I think it's healthy for young girls to be exposed to the 'meat market'. Soft porn is still porn.Aspiring to be/look like a tart is all too common these days. No wonder our kids are growing up too fast.

Excellent product placement, Gosh!

Thought you might like that.

We are a sentient being. We aren't ameoba-like. We apply discrimination and judgements and are open to influences, esp when young. So yes, in view of that, context, for humans, is everything.

Interesting, when I am in supermarkets or even our local shop I have never actually seen anyone buying these items. Wonder why that is?

Good. These magazines are just vile, depressing objectification of women.

I found it hugely amusing to find a sign for erection dysfunction medication dysfunction on the shelf for these magazines in Tesco.

uughh @ "niche market"

Perhaps Saga magazine would consider me. For 10p or summat

Everybody has a price, in this commodifying world.

Or are being deliberately obtuse?

Well, without wishing to crush your soft porn career before it has begun, AF.....would men/women pay to view your boobs, AF? Outside of a niche market?

It's a terrible shame when a store listens to its customers, eh, king rollo.

I think they should ignore their customers and just have more and more tits. The tit market is not sufficiently catered for.

It's shame really, DMU. Some people are a bit slow on the uptake, innit.

Yep, and I hope others follow suit

< looking at you, Asda >

I don't see why Co-Op needs to get involved.

because they're responding to input from their staff and their customers.

Funnily enough though, Nuts are not exactly beating my door down to feature me on their cover. Incomprehensible, really.

Pan, my 47yo boobs are equally as worthy as a 17yo's of public viewing, non ?

They are just boobs, after all. Just like what you see on the beach at Magaluf and suchlike.

Co-op are involved as they no longer wish to offend a number of their customers. Good business sense. If people wish to buy the stuff ( and so not lose business) they still can.

There is no compromise here, just as there is no compromise with the tiny group of people who have achieved this. They're not interested in compromise

Of course its a compromise. Its a compromise between having them on display and having them not available for sale in supermarkets etc.

There's nothing wrong with nudity. Little kids use changing rooms with parents of the opposite gender, most people don't mind that...because its normal bodies going about normal life. If you do mind - well, you can avoid that sort of changing room. Its your choice.

Introducing the wrappers gives people choice... if you want your kids to see these pouting girlies, you're free to buy them. And everyone else's kids now aren't exposed to them when all you want to do is get some food.

men's right to gawp at tits while doing the food shopping outweighs anyone else's rights.