What do stores do with the magazines that they don't sell?

Question

Like for example the tabloid mags,I never see anyone buy them.
Most people stand there and read them in the store
but never really buy them.

Answer 1

CDF-Rom is correct.

Most mass retailers and bookstores receive their magazines from distributors. The distributor is responsible for supplying the retailer with the magazines.

When the periodicals are placed in the stores, an invoice is signed. The invoice states how many magazines were delivered. At the end of the month, a company send out a rep who collects the remaining magazines and a credit is given to the stores for the units sold.

Answer 2

I guess it depends on the publisher and store. At my work they strip off the covers and throw the magazines away or give them to employees. We have a vast number of magazines where as a grocery store doesn't have that many titles. So it could be different. I know that at a convience store the publisher takes the magazines back. Probably for the reason that they don't have someone trained to strip and return them to the publisher, i imagine the same would be for a grocery store. At a bookstore however, there is two people trained to strip the magazines and return them properly to the publisher.

Answer 3

I work at a grocery store, and we sell mags. We count how many are left over when the new ones come. The distributer takes them back, then we get credit for them.

Answer 4

The distributors pick up the old magazines when they bring the new issues and I would imagine they recycle them.Perhaps they give them to 2nd hand stores like the dollar tree to sell.

Answer 5

Rip the front covers off, give the covers back to the distributer for a credit, and throw the leftover in the trash can

Answer 6

hopefully the distributor picks them up again and recycles them. I know that books used to have warnings on them saying that if you bought this book without a cover it was stolen, or something like that, meaning they rip the covers off them and probably throw them away or recycle them. that might have been in enland i cant remember.

Answer 7

Yes, that is true, what the other person just answered. Or some places get reimbursed for what they don't sell. But some people do buy them. My sister-in-law does..

Answer 8

I used to work at a super market, they send them back to the distrubtor

Answer 9

The distributors generally pick them up again. They have it as part of their contract to destroy any that don't sell.

Answer 10

toss them in the trash or send the to be recycled waste not want not :)