Newsagent's shop
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A newsagent's shop or simply newsagent's or paper shop
In
By country
Australia
A newsagent is the manager of the newspaper department of the shop, often also the owner of a newsagency shop.
Newsagencies conduct either a retail business and/or a distribution business.
When they first appeared in Australia is unknown; the earliest reference known in Australia is an advertisement in 1855 in Melbourne.[2]
The number of newsagencies in Australia are falling in recent years and this decline is expected to continue. In 2000, there was estimated about 5,000,[3] by 2007/8 there were 4,635 newsagencies, and by 2016/7 there were just 3,150 newsagencies.[4]
Retail newsagencies
Retail newsagencies[5] primarily offer a comprehensive range of newspapers and magazines, as well as stationery and greeting cards.
Distribution newsagencies
Distribution newsagencies
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.
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Italy
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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, sweets and tobacco; some of them also sell provisions and alcoholic beverages. Opening times vary according to the owners' preferences.
Many shops are family-owned. These family-owned shops may carry purchasing group or wholesaler group branding such as
Others are part of national chains such as RS McColl/Martins,
United States
On street corners in
References
- ^ "Paper shop". Cambridge Dictionary. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
Paper shop [..] noun [..] UK [..] a shop that sells newspapers
- ^ "The First Australian Newsagency?". POS Solutions. 20 January 2009.
- ^ https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/public-registers/documents/D05%2B12725.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ IBISWorld OD5495-Newsagencies-in-Australia-Industry-Report
- ^ a b "Australian Newsagents Federation". LinkedIn. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ^ AthensFever (10 August 2015). "The Greek Kiosk "Periptero"". www.athensfever.gr. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "A visit to a Greek kiosk (periptero)". transparent.com. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Subway Group Protests Removal of Newsstands". The New York Times. 13 February 1988. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
External links
- Media related to Newspaper stands at Wikimedia Commons
- "Yesterday's News", The New York Times article