what happens to magazines in stores when they are replaced by new ones?

Answer 1

The covers are ripped off and sent back to the company...so the store gets credit for the magazines. The rest are thrown into a big dumpster and then hosed down so they're unreadable for the most part. We still had some "dumptser divers" who would go there after close to filter through the magazines to find one that was salvageable.

Answer 2

I used to manage a newsstand that carried a variety of magazines and newspapers. Each week, every 2 weeks or once a month, depending on the expiration of the magazine, when the new shipment arrives. The old ones are removed from the shelves, counted, marked on a sheet and returned to the company from which they came.

Answer 3

Its kinda like at a conveince store, whenever the new shipment of bread comes in, the people who deliver take the old magazines, give the owner credit, (so they don't have to pay for magazines they didn't sell.) Also kinda like with newspapers, the seller only has to pay for the papers they sell.

Answer 4

Officially: they're counted as "destroyed" because that is the legal nature of magazine publishing, the publishers will NOT generally allow magazines to be sold more than a month past their sell-by dates, and will generally not allow them to be sold at a reduced price (there have been a few really rare exceptions here and there for big grocery and bookstore chains, but in general you won't see a magazine sell for less than the price on the cover), at least not legally.

Unofficially: there is a bit of an underground market for "destroyed" softcover books and magazines, which is to say some few people have it in them to snag batches of these past-sell-by-date books and magazines, clip off part or all of the cover (the general industry standard for marking a magazine or paperback as "no longer for sale") and resell them for nickels on the dollar.

Problem with this is threefold.

--damaging the cover, as you may imagine, destroys all resale and collector value of the material, and that is under the best case scenario...in some cases, "clipped" magazines not only lose their covers, but part or all of the first several pages, meaning you can lose parts of the tables of contents, or even the first chapter or article.

--technically, you are buying the material illegally, because the publishers have already written the material off as a loss and are not making any money from it. Granted, they were the ones who threw the books and 'zines away in the first place, but folks, especially corporate folks are *anal-retentive* as all get-out about intellectual property these days (at least when it comes to theirs, they could care *less* about yours or mine, they will gladly steal what they can). So yeah, you run a very small risk of being sued for having books and magazines that weren't supposed to be sold anymore. Actually, in practice though, the seller runs the bigger risk by keeping "destroyed" printed material on the shelves past its kill date.

--the market for "destroyed" paperbacks and magazines isn't the greatest as you might imagine....if you aren't looking for pulp fiction, romance novels, or porn (which in my humble opinion is never worth paying full price for anyway), you might be out of luck. If you are looking to buy a magazine from the prior month, your best bet is to just *look all over* at your local grocery, drugstores and bookstores. A few local places in town will always have the option of keeping their stuff over a month or two past the sell-by dates: for example, my local Walgreen's has the privilege of holding on to its _Popular Science_ and _Discover_ magazines for a bit longer than most stores....while my local Meijer has the same sort of thing going on regarding the sports mags....

Hope this helps. ;)

Answer 5

at the store I work in we tear off the cover of the old magazine, throw the magazine away and return the cover to the vendor

such a waste.

Answer 6

Returned to magazine publisher by vender for store credit.

Answer 7

They returned to the supplier who recycled them and remake them as new magazines.

Answer 8

they are sent back to the company that the business buys their magazines from.

Answer 9

They are marked out and thrown in the garbage

Answer 10

the distributor rips the cover off and either donates them throws them in the trash, or recycles them once they are counted