There's more to life than newspapers

[notedbiscuits]

Visited a supermarket to get the tea, coffee, milk for work. Also had a lotto ticket which I got a lucky dip on it and got that done and went to the kiosk and purchased items there too. The supermarket didn't have its newspapers in. The constant whinging from customers in the few minutes was unbelievable. There is more to life than a bloody newspapers which are full of depressing stuff.

I don't have the time to read a newspaper and never read one cover to cover. Plus the format is outdated - 24 hour news channels, websites etc.

Silly and ignorant thing to say.

For a lot of people, especially older people, it’s part of a routine: going to the store to buy your newspaper and a pint of milk or whatever, coming home, reading the day’s news. And I’d counter that reading a static newspaper once per day is actually preferable to 24-hour rolling constantly updated online and TV news, if the argument is “news is relentlessly depressing.”

I would have felt sorry for the staff being moaned at for something thats not their fault.

A lot of people a trip to go and get their paper is a part of their routine, the reason they get dressed and out of the house.

it may not be a big thing for you but that doesn’t mean it isn’t for others.

Some of the older generation still love their newspapers. It's part of their routine of getting up and going to get it.
Plus Radio Times on a Tuesday and Take a Break on Thursday.
Never mess with their routine. It's what keeps them going.
(light-hearted 🙂)

I get my free newspaper from Waitrose so I can do the crossword.
The paper is also handy in winter for lighting the fire.

I think there is more to life than buying lottery tickets. But that’s just my opinion, which is different to yours

How narrow minded of you to believe everyone should live life the way you do

If there hadn't been a milk delivery yet wouldn't you (and every other customer that morning) be whinging to the staff?

Perfectly put, @ComtesseDeSpair.

Though I do agree with @Thelnebriati that it isn’t the kiosk staff’s fault, and they shouldn’t be getting flack for it.

I don't think it's unreasonable to have a little grumble about it. I doubt anyone there was claiming the newspaper was their life! They just wanted an item that you'd expect to be available, and they couldn't so they moaned.

I still but newspapers at the weekend, I'd be a bit disgruntled if I couldn't get one.

I buy the Guardian on a Saturday. I really like reading the physical newspaper and it's really annoying if it's not in the shop or parts of the paper are missing. I wouldn't complain at a shop assistant but I might complain to them.

There's more to life than most things, honestly.

I used to work for a newsagents as a teen. Firstly as a paper girl and then in the shop as turned 16 so could sell cigs and lottery (both were 16 plus then). Supplements come bundled separately as they get printed Thursday or Friday. So its the job of someone in the shop to pair up the papers to the supplements. Sometimes we get more papers than supplements - usually about 3-5 papers, we didn't put those out and sold them to those who were needing the paper but explained there was no supplement or could give them a discount.

If we had a massive shortfall of supplements, ringing Smiths News or Menzies (can't remember the distribution company) to see if they can obtain more.

How do you get from someone being cross that an item they'd gone to a shop to buy and finding it not there to them having nothing in their life but that item?

@notedbiscuits

I don't have the time to read a newspaper

you have the same 24 hours as everyone else - you choose not to read the paper 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Likewise you choose to post boring threads on MN

YANBU

We used to have a small family newsagents shop. The abuse we got when papers hadn't been delivered, or Sunday supplements were missing, or we hadn't been sent enough bingo cards etc was unbelievable.

Some people are absolutely insane.

We tried our best to deliver "something" when there were strikes or a lorry broke down, etc., but we could only work with what we had. We'd send the paper boys/girls out with the right papers we had, but had to give them whatever was left to deliver to those whose papers were missing, so it was a bit of a lottery what customers got. Obviously, teenagers don't understand the nuances of politics, etc., so sometimes someone who usually got, say, an Express, would be delivered a Mail, or someone wanting a Sun would set, say, a Star, etc. Customers were welcome to bring it back if they didn't like the substitute. 99% of customers were fine and understanding and would occasionally bring it back. But once we had a completely out of control raging customer who came in and threw his Daily Mail at us, threatening to burn the shop down (literally), and telling us he'd smash our windows if we delivered the Mail ever again - he was a Guardian reader! Needless to say we called the police on him and banned him!

I work in a shop with a Pharmacy. It's closed between 1.15 and 2pm every single day for the pharmacist to have a lunch break. The absolute worst customers for complaining about this are elderly people who have had a very minor inconvenience coming in while they're shut. It makes no odds how often the pharmacy staff explain. Those elderly people just love to complain.

Those who read Daily Mail are the idiots who believed in every single word they printed and voted Brexit.

Newspapers should not be treated like its the Bible.

Apparently those that work on the kiosk / customer service desks are some of the worst abused in all of retail so I always try to remember to smile at them. They probably think I’m a nutter.

Since when did Waitrose do free newspapers? That stopped ages ago surely?

Since when did Waitrose do free newspapers? That stopped ages ago surely?

I get a voucher for a free paper every day.

You seem to be inventing a series of straw man arguments based on absolutely nothing. Other papers besides tabloid rubbish are available. Reading newspapers doesn’t involve treating them like Holy Writ. Good journalism is important, and deserves to be paid for by whatever means. You have the same 24 day as everyone else. You just choose not to read newspapers.

Well I’m 45, so certainly not that old and buy a paper every day. Much prefer it to reading it online. As others have said, it’s routine and you have read it and that’s it, no constant updates. I get my local one too, will miss it if it ever stops.

Not everyone can, or wants to read papers online.

My DP's hobby is spending some time in the local library reading the papers. He goes to our local library and has some quiet time there
With papers, you get no shitty pop up ads, no comments arguing about it all, no further bullshit follow up articles and constant updates.

You don't have a clue. My dad has very bad health issues, walking is a major effort for him. He walks to the local shop twice a day to get the papers and for the exercise. It makes a huge difference to him and there's plenty like him. Don't be so ignorant.

I buy The Times every day and I feel lost without it. I read all of it apart from the obituaries which I save to read over breakfast the next day.

I don’t read newspapers (like 95% of the population) but I do find your post a bit weird. Why do you care? And why all the detail on your shop!

My DP's hobby is spending some time in the local library reading the papers. He goes to our local library and has some quiet time there

pretty sure that doesn’t count as a hobby