Newsagent's shop
A newsagent's shop (British English), newsagency (Australian English) or newsstand (American and Canadian English) is a business that sells newspapers, magazines, cigarettes, snacks and often items of local interest. In Britain, Ireland and Australia, these businesses are termed newsagents. Newsagents typically operate in busy public places like city streets, railway stations and airports. Racks for newspapers and magazines can also be found in convenience stores, bookstores and supermarkets. The physical establishment can be either freestanding or part of a larger structure (e.g. a shopping mall or a railway station).
In Canada and the United States, newsstands are often open stalls in public locations such as streets, or in a transit terminal or station (subway, rail, or airport).
By country
Brazil
In Brazil, newsagents' shops are known as "bancas de jornal" or "bancas de revistas" and are usually family-owned free standing kiosks that only deal in periodical publications, telephone cards, bus tickets and the occasional book and cut-price DVD. In suburban areas and villages they are normally housed in a shop selling stationery, tobacco and sweets as well as periodicals.
Australia
A newsagent is the manager, often the owner of a newsagent shop. Newsagents conduct either a retail business and/or a distribution business.
When they first started in Australia is unknown; the earliest reference known in Australia is an advertisement in 1855 in Melbourne.[1] Today there are 5000+ individually owned and operated newsagencies. [2][3][4]
Retail newsagencies
Retail newsagencies[2] primarily offer a comprehensive range of newspapers and magazines as well as stationery and greeting cards.
Distribution newsagencies
Distribution newsagencies[2] offer home delivery of a comprehensive range of newspapers and magazines, These can be quite large and sophisticated businesses. If authorised, they are often fully computerized. They often have a territory, which is partly protected by contracts with most of the Australian Newsagents' Federation recognised publishers/distributors. These recognised publishers/distributors include ACP Publishing, News Limited, Fairfax Publications, Rural Press, The West Australian and Australian Provincial Newspapers. These monopolies have been a major source of contention between newsagents and the Australian Consumer Affairs.
Italy
In Italy, newsagents' shops are known as edicola and are usually family-owned, free standing kiosks that only deal in periodical publications, stickers, bus tickets and the occasional book and cut-price DVD. In suburban areas and villages they are normally housed in a shop selling stationery, tobacco and sweets as well as periodicals.
Japan
In Japan, newsagents' shops are called kiosks, and are typically found in or around railway or subway stations. In addition to newspapers and magazines, they sell beverages, snack foods, postage stamps, cigarettes, and many other kinds of merchandise. Ekiben boxed lunches can be purchased at larger kiosks in inter-city rail stations.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, newsagents' shops are small shops selling newspapers as well as magazines, provisions, tobacco and alcoholic beverages. Opening times vary according to the owners' preferences.
Many shops are family owned. These family owned shops may carry purchasing group branding such as SPAR, Today's, "Local Shop" or NISA. Alternatively the private owner choosing to do his own purchasing (usually from cash and carries) may carry advertising for a local paper, national news group or soft drinks brand externally. Prior to the banning of advertising of tobacco products this was the most common form of external advertising. Others are part of national chains such as RS McColl/Martins, Co-operative Group and WH Smiths, and Newsbox. Mini-marts, off-licences and supermarkets may also act as newsagents.
United States
On street corners in New York City, for instance, they are shacks constructed of steel beams and aluminium siding or roofing tin; and require a city permit to build and operate. Other New York newsstands are located inside hotels and office buildings and beneath street level in underground concourses or on subway platforms. During the 1990s, newsstands on some subway platforms were removed and then reopened in modular units designed to fit into the triangular spaces beneath subway staircases. The newsstands caused limited visibility for officers patrolling the subway stations, as well as impeding crowd movement.[5]
References
- ↑ "The First Australian Newsagency?". POS Solutions. 20 January 2009.
- 1 2 3 "Australian Newsagents Federation". LinkedIn. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ↑ http://kimprince.com/case-studies/xchangeit/Kim%20Prince%20and%20XchangeIT,%20Sept%2009.pdf
- ↑ "Network Online: Retail Services". Netonline.com.au. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ↑ "Subway Group Protests Removal of Newsstands". New York Times. 13 February 1988. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
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- "Yesterday's News", New York Times article