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!!!

Weird post from another special breed. OP is moaning about a general phenomenon and commenting on the well accepted idea that customer opinion is important. You're equating that with a complaint given to the business you work for, in (what sounds to me) like a belligerent manner. They're not the same.

These answers are really strange.

It was nice when coffee shops had papers. I used to work in one and when I did the early shift my boss would send me across the road to the newsagent to pick them up. We also had lots of magazines that usually ended up being stolen.

Pre Covid I liked a coffee/scone 3 or 4 mornings a week before work, I particularly liked to read a paper while having it, I frequented 4 different local coffee shops that all supplied papers for customer to read.

Since Covid reopening of those coffee shops not one now has papers, I actually don't go in anymore, I buy a coffee/scone/paper in the nearest shop and drive to a nice local beauty spot mile or two away and have my coffee, read the paper and maybe even go for a walk on a nice day, this costs about the same as going into the coffee shop used to do. So while I get there is a cost to providing a few papers every day there is also a cost to losing customers!

The whole Covid/newspapers thing is a red herring imo, use sanitiser afterwards or wash hands if worried.

If you don't give the customers what they want they will go elsewhere won't they.
Customers are King to a business.

But lots of people do get what they want from coffee shops and aren't fussed about a second hand newspaper.
The ones I frequent have great service, smiley staff, excellent coffee and a good choice of snacks and cakes. Why would I go elsewhere?

This.

Coffee out is already quite an expense.
If they are also buying in newspapers daily that not everyone will read, that adds on to costs the shop has to cover.
Surely if someone wants to sit in a coffee shop and read a paper, then they buy a paper on the way in - that way they get their own choice of paper and no-one else is paying the cost of something they don't need.
In the same way other people will take in a book, or their phone, or a friend to talk to or their lap top or puzzle book etc.

You are paying for the coffee, the heating, use of toilets, and staff, I don't want 'entertainment' added on to that - I'll bring my own, thanks.

One of my local coffee shops still has newspapers which is great. Another one has stopped and worse still stopped the little homemade biscuits that came with the coffee! It was costing £40 a week to provide those biscuits. They just can't afford it with all the price hikes. I'm just really grateful they are still open - I don't know how long they will last.