Did anyone get a paper today that did have coupons? I went through several papers at the gas station and none of them had any.
Here is the 2009 coupon insert schedule. There were no coupons scheduled for this week's paper....sad, but true. http://forum.couponmom.com/all-about-grocery-coupons/8957-2009-coupon-inserts-schedule.html Hope that helps. Faye
Yeah, mine's doesn't have coupons either. I was disappointed but I knew we won't be having any due to holiday (Prez Day). What a bummer.
Daily newspaper business is hurting. There are fewer circulars, less ads and some newspapers are combining sections.
The ONLY reason I get the paper is for the coupons :evil: This really stinks - when the person actually delivers our paper, no coupons - the weeks that they don't bother to show - chock full. The newspaper business has gone to crap. Would be better off having a coupon subscription - sincerely - why can't the business who print off the coupon booklets sell subscriptions? There would be a lot less to recycle. I literally take the coupons out and toss the rest on the side for people who need them for rescue work. . .the paper itself is useless to me - if I want to know about whats going on, I check online.
Sure they are - why would anyone want to pay for advertising where barely anyone is going to notice it - unless it is in with coupons? Nowadays it appears most "journalists" must have graduated at the bottom of their class.
Off subject a bit, but what most dailies (and even weeklies) are going to have to start doing is working with smaller staffs that are really dedicated to doing the work. For many years, the newspapers had it pretty easy with fat ad revenue and that afforded them the opportunity to have a larger staff that wasn't as efficient. Those who work the print media business will now have to work twice as hard to produce a similar product as before. Plus, many papers will have to scale down with smaller offices, sell their presses and outsource their print jobs to other facilities. Really there is a place for newspapers. Obviously, everybody doesn't carry around a laptop with wi-fi just yet to log on to a website for news, so newspapers have their place. However, the newspapers have had their heyday. They will be forced to explore new ways to get business or lose their shirts. As with the case of the N&O...mark my words. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that the Charlotte Observer and News & Observer will merge into one big newspaper with a merged staff. The N&O for the past several weeks has been painfully thin for their Sunday edition. I don't see them being able to maintain their operations without doing something drastic. The big media companies are less likely to be able to keep their heads above the waters than the smaller ones, because they are basically just rehashing the same news. The smaller companies can adapt to offer a different slant on news utilizing a smaller staff.
