Problem finding Sunday papers in the racks

[jspoole]

I was just curious if anyone else is having a problem getting the Sunday paper at the racks in your area?

I have couponed for years and never had a problem getting my papers after church. But that came to a stop a couple months ago. So I stated going at 6 am on sunday morning and still had to drive all over town to get my papers. I buy 4 papers a week and it has gotten where you are lucky to find one paper still in the rack.

What is going on. Is this just in my small area or is this a problem every where?

 

[TeresaMc]

Being a circulation district manager for our newspaper, you should not have problems locating a Sunday paper. Many of our racks have 2 doors and have today's paper in the top door and has Sunday papers available all week long.

My advice is to check into a home delivery subscription, it is generally cheaper and will be delivered to you, most likely before you head to church.

 

[FlyingDumbo]

I was just curious if anyone else is having a problem getting the Sunday paper at the racks in your area?

I have couponed for years and never had a problem getting my papers after church. But that came to a stop a couple months ago. So I stated going at 6 am on sunday morning and still had to drive all over town to get my papers. I buy 4 papers a week and it has gotten where you are lucky to find one paper still in the rack.

What is going on. Is this just in my small area or is this a problem every where?

Its the crazy coupon craze I think. In my area when you go to get a paper all the coupon inserts have been taken out of them and the papers are all left a mess and not put back together. This has been happening at several stores around me and complaining to customer service/ managers does not seem to be helping at all. Each week= same problem. People are so rude, the papers need to be kept behind the counter.

 

[ceecee]

With our paper we can choose to get home delivery for just the Sunday paper. Check that out, it may cost less too.

 

[nsmith]

I have been having a terrible time obtaining my coupons for months now. My big city newspaper stopped providing Redplum at least a year ago. I tried to get my husband to pick me up the local newspaper (that has less smart shopper coupons than the big city one) but he often forgot or brought home a paper w/out the coupons. I then tried to have the local newspaper delivered as well as the big city paper and the local just couldn't seem to locate my house, hubby got frustrated and canceled. I could get the Redplum every third Sun when I worked as we provide it to our patients but even this week the redplum wasn't included. I am really at my wits end. Finding multi coupons inserts used to be so easy and is at the heart of saving money.

 

[FlyingDumbo]

With our paper we can choose to get home delivery for just the Sunday paper. Check that out, it may cost less too.

I live on the third floor which is 6 flights of stairs so I hate to have to have anything even pizza delieverd. Some poor guy will have to schlep up all the stairs.

 

[DawnM]

I order 2 Sunday papers. Our local paper offered a deal, Sunday only, for $1 each. I ordered a full year of 2 papers.

Our local grocery store started keeping papers ONLY at the registers because people were stealing the coupons out of them and leaving the paper.

Dawn

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

If DH waits until 11 or later, there aren't many papers left and we have been buying the Atlanta paper, but it isn't always available, it has the best coupons.

I would expect it has to do with the coupon craze.

Suzanne

 

[BCV2003]

Just last week I started to subscribe to the Sunday paper because I was tired of having to go through papers to make sure the coupons were there or getting home and realizing they were missing.

I got a deal in the mail for a subscription that includes Thursday and Sunday papers for $26 for the year. Sunday paper is typically $1.50. This was such a great deal because it is in an outlying area where there is a surcharge of an additional $0.25 over the $1.50.

 

[Judique]

I just got a call from the Washington Post asking permission to deliver me for free the coupon inserts!

I cancelled my Sunday paper several months back because I wasn't reading it and had little time for coupons, plus they had added a delivery charge which put the price at close to $2. For $1 it's available at the local dollar store on Sundays if I have time for it.

So, not sure if this is just a short term marketing ploy or if they'll keep dropping the inserts.

I was just curious if anyone else is having a problem getting the Sunday paper at the racks in your area?

I have couponed for years and never had a problem getting my papers after church. But that came to a stop a couple months ago. So I stated going at 6 am on sunday morning and still had to drive all over town to get my papers. I buy 4 papers a week and it has gotten where you are lucky to find one paper still in the rack.

What is going on. Is this just in my small area or is this a problem every where?

 

[disneysuncat]

I subscribe, but usually buy a second paper when the coupons are really good. Our newspaper stands are empty if you are even past 9 AM on Sunday. One Sunday, we decided to check the grocery inside (Kroger, in a small KY town) only to find they had stack and stacks of them, 50 cents cheaper than they are in the machines! (bonus!) So they are now my go-to for extras.

 

[kldmom2000]

We have plenty of papers available, but I was wondering where all the coupons were nowadays?!?!? We subscribe to our local paper, but there's NEVER coupons in it.... this subscription replaced a different newspaper subscription we had that all of a sudden stopped having coupons in it around Nov. last year???? I asked my DH to go pick up a Boston Globe last week just for the coupons.... he brought it home and there were NONE in it but plenty of sale flyers.... This week he went to the convenience store to check the paper and as he was flipping through it to look for coupons, the owner asked him what he was looking for. He told him the coupons.... the owner said "Look-there's plenty!" as he was showing him all the sale circulars Duh. DH didn't even bother trying to correct him and just left w/o the paper.....

 

[DisneyLover83]

I don't know whats going on but I am having the same problem. In fact this past Sunday we bought a paper and got home to find out that the coupons were taken out. Went back to the store and discovered every paper had the coupons removed. Store manager did not seem to care.

 

[SandrA9810]

Being a circulation district manager for our newspaper, you should not have problems locating a Sunday paper. Many of our racks have 2 doors and have today's paper in the top door and has Sunday papers available all week long.

My advice is to check into a home delivery subscription, it is generally cheaper and will be delivered to you, most likely before you head to church.

Out in Dallas, it's more expensive to use a subscription than it is to buy it at the store. The kicker, it's $3 a paper or specially wrapped 2 for $5. The inserts are specially bagged in the middle (so you know it's there). Home delivery is $3.69 a week or $7 for an entire week.

In California, I try to buy it at Walmart cause they sell it for 50 cents less, and often times the inserts are mailed.

I live on the third floor which is 6 flights of stairs so I hate to have to have anything even pizza delieverd. Some poor guy will have to schlep up all the stairs.

I lived on the second floor, and had paper delivery for about 24 weeks. Never had a problem.
Are complexes and high rises common in your area? I'm sure the delivery people are used it, it's part of working a physically active job.

 

[jessica52877]

Never any coupons here anymore. The papers are a mess and it is crazy! I stopped sending DH to buy one because he wouldn't always remember to check for the coupons and even when I would go out it would take 20 papers before I would find one with coupons. I have couponed for years and have quit in the past 6-12 months because of these issues.

 

[Where'sPiglet?]

I lived on the second floor, and had paper delivery for about 24 weeks. Never had a problem.
Are complexes and high rises common in your area? I'm sure the delivery people are used it, it's part of working a physically active job.

I lived on the 6th floor of a building that had stairs and an elevator to choose from. I signed up for a 2 week free trial subscription to a newspaper. I was sent a bill to continue the subscription. I had to call them up and tell them I didn't realize the 2 week trial had even started, because I had received precisely ZERO newspapers.

And yes, multi-unit complexes were very common in that area.


Here, I get a free newspaper mid-week with the grocery ads and Sunday with the coupons and some store ads. It's a slimmed down version that only has the classifieds, the local section, and the ads. But it's free and it comes to my house, so I can't complain.

I haven't gone and paid for a full newspaper in a long time. Actually, I think the last time I paid for one was in February 2010 - when the Saints won the Superbowl!

 

[SandrA9810]

I lived on the 6th floor of a building that had stairs and an elevator to choose from. I signed up for a 2 week free trial subscription to a newspaper. I was sent a bill to continue the subscription. I had to call them up and tell them I didn't realize the 2 week trial had even started, because I had received precisely ZERO newspapers.

And yes, multi-unit complexes were very common in that area.


Here, I get a free newspaper mid-week with the grocery ads and Sunday with the coupons and some store ads. It's a slimmed down version that only has the classifieds, the local section, and the ads. But it's free and it comes to my house, so I can't complain.

I haven't gone and paid for a full newspaper in a long time. Actually, I think the last time I paid for one was in February 2010 - when the Saints won the Superbowl!

I always had a problem with them over sending them. I'd get a 12 week prepaid in cash subscription, deliver it for 2-4 more weeks after the original 12. And then they'd call me and try to get me to renew. When I declined they wanted me to pay for the "extra" papers. I laughed at them said, if I wanted a longer subscription, I would've ordered it. You're the one that gave it to me, so why should I pay?


In California, I don't think the newspaper or coupons are a big deal. Since there's a lot of Mexicans, and they mainly shop at their stores which sell a lot more imported and mexican based foods, which coupons are not focused at. So the coupons are actually mailed out with the weekly ads. I love it when I get double coupons for the week.

Out here in Dallas, people are coupon hogs, and the newspaper knows it. Why else would they bundle them 2 for $5? I haven't encountered missing coupons, but since they're wrapped in a bag, it's easy to see that they're in there.
Although I sometimes get double coupons, because at Cracker Barrel they get a subscription to the papers, and of course some of the early birds will bring the paper with them. So there's a crate next to the fireplace full of papers. Some weeks the coupons are still in the stack. If they're there, I'll go through them and take the ones I want. But it's not what I do first thing Sunday morning, just if I happen to eat there, and the coupons are still there.

 

[smokeyblue]

I don't subscribe to our paper because you can get most of the news on their webpage and coupons are sparse. I do like to get the black friday paper though. I couldn't find a paper anywhere! Even at the least frequented locations they were gone. Well I remembered seeing paper boxes at the Holiday Inn when I went to a reception. I've gone there the last couple of years and got my black friday paper and the box is always full. If you have any hotels around I would check the lobby.

 

[PigletsPal2]

The hotel where my DH stays off & on for about 8 months of the year offers the Sunday Washington Post, complete w/inserts, to all guests. For the most part, the guests are male business travelers, who have not been properly educated in the use of coupons, so they just pull out the inserts and leave them on the reception table.

DH's favorite front desk clerk scurries out to collect discarded inserts a couple of times a day to save for DH. Every other week he sends me a fat priority mail envelope with about 50-60 coupon inserts in it!

And icing on the cake, coupons valid in Washington DC are worth about 50% more for the same item here in Florida.

BTW, we share coupons we can't use or if we have more than we could use before the expiration date; we just randomly offer them at the store!

Queen Colleen

 

[GoofyMomInOhio]

Never any coupons here anymore. The papers are a mess and it is crazy! I stopped sending DH to buy one because he wouldn't always remember to check for the coupons and even when I would go out it would take 20 papers before I would find one with coupons. I have couponed for years and have quit in the past 6-12 months because of these issues.

We get home delivery but I've stopped couponing for similar reasons. It seems that the shelves are always empty when there is a good sale/coupon combo. In the long run, it was cheaper for me to buy what we need when on sale then to drive to the stores and find the shelves empty.