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There's nowhere left near me at all that sells the New York Times, which was the paper I liked to read in physical form. Used to be a fun weekend ritual to pick

There's nowhere left near me at all that sells the New York Times, which was the paper I liked to read in physical form. Used to be a fun weekend ritual to pick up the Sunday edition from the coffee shop down the street and sit around reading things and doing the crossword, but I can't find it anymore. I'm not sure if it was covid that killed off the distribution or just the economics of print.

booleandilemma 5y ago
- Anthony-G 5y ago
  Making those assumptions about IndrekR isn’t very fair. Like him/her, I brew my own coffee (using locally purchased beans) but I go out of my way to support local businesses. I haven’t bought anything from Amazon since 2010 and the only online purchases I’ve made in the last three years were FFP masks (I couldn’t find a local chemists who stocked them for some strange reason), RAM chips and an SSD drive (the local PC shops are gone). Having said that, I regretted paying €20 for a bicycle chain from a local bike shop (who weren’t particularly pleasant to deal with) when I could have purchased the same chain from an online retailer for €5.
contingencies 5y ago
Almost certainly the latter. The economics of distribution are extremely harsh. Fixed cost per site per day has to be covered by all parties and a profit. Say it costs USD$30 for a van stop at a place, idle the vehicle, unload the goods, and pay the driver then you need to sell a whole lotta newspapers to break even. The solution, if you enjoy print as I do, is to purchase longer term periodicals. Weekly news magazines are good. The New Yorker, Economist, etc. Smiles from China where we have no such options.