Saturday, August 11, 2012

Good job Clarion-Ledger

Kiss buying the Wall Street Journal at a newsstand goodbye. For many years its been sold at local bookstores such as Books A Million and at McDade's. Can't hardly find it now thanks to the Clarion-Ledger. See, the local newspaper took over retail distribution of the WSJ. Now delivery is sporadic. Hasn't been delivered two weekends in a row and BAM said they no longer carry it thanks to the CL. Good job knuckleheads. Its bad enough you turn out a crappy product. Now you take steps to make sure we can't purchase the only decent newspaper in town. Looks like I'll be subscribing. Is there nothing you don't screw up?

13 comments:

Mark Geoffriau said...
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Mark Geoffriau said...

Or you could just get it at Lemuria. We open at 8 AM Monday through Saturday, 10:30 AM on Sundays.

Kingfish said...

Went by there. Thanks. They had one left. What she said was the CL person underbid the person who has done it for years and has the NYT. Turns out they are using a strict inventory control. If they sold 3 on tuesday last week they deliver 2 or 3 and that's it. BAM doesn't even get it anymore and I know for a fact they sold several every day.

Lain said...

The good news is that, if you're a subscriber, it's now being delivered in the morning instead of through the mail.

Shadowfax said...

How does an 'author remove' a comment? Impossible.

Pee Ess: My Clarion subscription delivery has, for the first time ever, been sporadic the last two weeks.

Anonymous said...

My carrier is an A-A woman. She is dead solid perfect and reliable every delivery day. I'm not disputing any of y'all only sharing that they have some independent contractors who kick big black mama booty.

I tip her $$big time$$ to reinforce the free market performance based (non-Obama) system and in my phone conversations with this young old-school gal I know she gets it but she can't say it.

Anonymous said...

@ 5:32 pm... Can you translate into english ???

Anonymous said...

If you need a translation for 5:32 you must be a Soetero Donkey.

Anonymous said...

CL is a joke. The capital of Mississippi and the largest newspaper is an embarrassment for our state.
Anonymous

Anonymous said...

Get a sub to the WSJ! You won't regret it. I look forward to reading it.

Shadowfax said...

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Anonymous said...

KF, you need to let WSJ know. Paper availability ties straight into their marketing. If local POS is trying to kill the competition, then you tell the better newspaper what's going on.

Alan Murray, Executive Editor, a.murray@wsj.com

Kristie Sells, Vice President Customer Experience, k.sells@wsj.com

Jennifer said...

I've been a daily subscriber to WSJ for several years and my delivery has always been sporadic. Sometimes days at a time without a paper. I called, e-mailed, screamed, pleaded, etc. and finally in the last few months it has been regularly available in my driveway when I get up in the morning. Then they went with the C-L, and all the sudden, my C-L delivery, which I could always count on, has been sporadic. And since my WSJ is now in the same plastic bag as C-L, that means my WSJ is back to being sporadic. Oh well, I'm done screaming and pleading.


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