To think coffee shops should bring back the newspapers

[dottypotter]

Dont go to coffee shops much but always remember they had papers to read while you were in there.

Been going in a few times lately and realised no papers. I asked and they said they dont do them anymore!

Why does everything have to be cut out? Not everyone wants to be playing on their phone? Surely part of a coffee shop is to have a paper?

No i dont want to buy a paper before anyone says? It should be provided? Everything is always taken away. Coffee shops and a newspaper go together!!!

Well of course if they are going to provide a supply of newspapers, there is a cost to that they will want to recoup. I imagine if they thought it was worth it, and they could charge more ,or attract more customers they would do it.

Mmm I feel ambivalent about it.

I did used to enjoy a flick through a newspaper with a coffee, and they would be handy for if you’re out of power without a charger etc, but essentially that ship has sailed. We’re living in a different time.

Also there’s something unhygienic about picking up a paper that lots people who may well have just been to the toilet and not washed their hands 🧑‍🔬 have handled.

This sounds defensive but I’m in mind of a thread earlier this year when people were invited to make Confessions. Someone came on and said her and her DH hardly ever washed their hands. She seemed almost proud of it.

charge more, its dear enough in there.

It's a margin-preservation cost that can be cut. And it's not a good look environmentally, all that paper that has to be recycled each day.

I don't know about you, but right now I'm just happy that my local indie coffee shops are still open, employing people and serving good coffee.

Nice idea, but things cost as much as it is and many businesses are having to cut back.

Our local coffee shop has books about coffee and deserts. I think
it’s a nice compromise.

Do you mean OP that you want coffee shops to sell newspapers so you can buy them for reading?

it’s irrelevant that you don’t ‘want to buy’ your own, the coffee shop doesn’t give a shit. If you want a paper, buy one. Or don’t 🤷🏽‍♀️

Do you remember when there used to be magazines and newspapers everywhere. Always out of date and ripped or covered in coffee cup rings.

no provide one for reading, they always used too.

Agressive reply. Coffee shops always provided a paper for a customer to read just as hairdressers provide magazines? Why not? Why have they stopped? Did they ask csutomers what they wanted then? I dont want to buy one!!

They don't want to buy one, either. I'm sure it's a cost-cutting measure.

I worked opposite a train station and I used to grab a few metros for my reception area. Could be an Idea.

Unhygienic how? It's no more unhygienic than just going about your daily day, touching things.

There is no such thing as a free newspaper. Just buy your own newspaper if you want, they are quite expensive nowadays to provide for customers and it will push the prices for coffee up, I’m against it.

you seem to have a self inflated idea of how important your wishes are to coffee shop owners

YABU

Not only would it cost the coffee shop around a tenner per day which is £70 per week, just think of all the wasted natural resources, cost/resources re recycling etc. Anyway, probably no longer any newspaper deliveries so that's staff time (which has to be paid for) for going to the nearest newsagents to buy them. Then of course, the entitled customers whingeing that their Daily Mail was being read by someone else, so why doesn't the coffee shop buy more than 1 Daily Mail, and so it goes on.

If you want to read a paper, buy one or go to the library.

Why should a coffee shop provide anything for free? They are a business not a charity. Want to read with your coffee? Bring something to read

YABU, take a book if you want something to read. I wouldn't want to read a well thumbed newspaper from a public place. Bleurgh. You can look at news on your phone.

We are the Customers!

Point Missed. They always used too. Like hairdressers provide Magazines.

In our local one people used to take them home so they stopped doing it

no, you are one customer. they won’t miss you if you stop going because they don’t provide a paper. most people are happy to buy their own or bring a book

It’s also about customer turnover. They want people to drink their coffee and go, not spend hours sat sipping it while working their way through the Sunday Times.

Hairdressers and other places that put magazines out rarely buy the magazines - they are usually out of date / back copies from someone's Mum who has read them. Newspapers have to be up to date.

And I'm not missing the point - why should they? "Because that's how we've always done it" isn't a reasonable explanation for anything. Ever.