Monday night, I bought a newspaper to have something to read while eating dinner (this truck stop only carries the flagship of the Gannet chain). After dinner, I noticed something was wrong, and mentioned it to the cashier of the truck stop's convenience store (wasn't a problem for me - it was an issue I hadn't read yet) - it wasn't the current issue (July 28th), but one for the 24th (Thursday of previous week).
Cashier went to the pile of newspapers, and not all of them were for the 24th - a few at the bottom were for the 21st. Also, the "Sports Weekly" (I don't follow sports) had a few of the current issue, and batches of several different outdated issues - if they'd gone one issue older than the oldest one in the stack, it'd have gone into May.
Apparently when the new issue came in, they'd just drop the stack onto whatever was still in the rack, without clearing out the old issues. I understand that they can get credit for returning unsold copies, but there's got to be a time limit on that, so letting old ones build up can cost the store money. Also, I can just imagine the SC behaviour (even though this happened in NJ rather than SC) if someone found out that they'd just paid 2 bucks for a newspaper (oldspaper?) from the previous week.
Cashier went to the pile of newspapers, and not all of them were for the 24th - a few at the bottom were for the 21st. Also, the "Sports Weekly" (I don't follow sports) had a few of the current issue, and batches of several different outdated issues - if they'd gone one issue older than the oldest one in the stack, it'd have gone into May.
Apparently when the new issue came in, they'd just drop the stack onto whatever was still in the rack, without clearing out the old issues. I understand that they can get credit for returning unsold copies, but there's got to be a time limit on that, so letting old ones build up can cost the store money. Also, I can just imagine the SC behaviour (even though this happened in NJ rather than SC) if someone found out that they'd just paid 2 bucks for a newspaper (oldspaper?) from the previous week.
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