Loose leaflet inserts… I’m afraid they annoy me and l usually tip them out in the rack in the shop/supermarket.
Worse are the ones attached to staples in the centre of a magazine. As gently, as you try to take them out, they seem to loosen the staples and sometimes your magazine pages start to come apart.
Maybe, l’m being impatient and should welcome these unwanted inserts?
What about you. Are they something you like to read, or do they annoy you too?
I don’t really buy magazines or newspapers anymore, but the leaflets and flyers didn’t bother me to the extent that I tipped them out onto the rack before buying them
I also worked in a newsagents for a while, and I put them all in there every single day, so…spare a thought for the little paper stuffer people whose livelihood depends on you not tipping things out!
Can’t say they really bother me. My older Sister and I used to have a competition to find the ad for the most tasteless thing in colour sups and magazines, for example
Yep - if the leaflets and supplements annoy consumers, I can also vouch for the fact that they annoy the newsagents even more!
Nowadays, most of the magazines arrive already “stuffed” but the leaflets often fall out - or customers tip them out and leave them lying about on the mag racks for us to clear up - it’s difficult to decide if stray leaflets have fallen out and need replacing or if the mag they came from has already been bought - I used to just chuck any stray leaflets I found on the racks cos I didn’t have time to flick through the mags left to see if they had just fallen out.
The job I hate most is stuffing the weekend newspapers with all the various supplements - some of them have about 3 different supplements - all the supplements arrive separately to the newspapers - some of them arrive the day before - and we have to clear enough space in the stock room to spread them out and match them up to the correct newspaper first thing in the morning before we open the shop - what a bore.
Yes, I recall hearing that bit of info about pictures of clocks and watches on sale always show the same time and remember the reasons given - I think it was on Stephen Fry’s QI programme some years ago and it’s the kind of trivia that I find interesting and sticks in my mind.
I don’t mind loose leaflets in magazines in the slightest, because I never buy magazines. It’s the ones they keep shoving through my letter box that really annoy me.
Of course. Then you would stand there while they read it out, smile and gingerly take it from them, thanking them profusely. Then you would slam the door.