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Originally Posted by Peter Mallett
but frankly, if you read it without buying it you are "stealing".
My apologies if this appears harsh.
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That's wrong. If you go to buy it every week, just subscribe and be done with it.
I worked at a newsstand in college and we had people who never bought anything, and we'd kick them out after 10-minutes. But guys, like me, who would browse for 3-5 minutes and buy it 6 out of 10 times, we wouldn't say anything. Even foreign fashion magazines at $50 each. At book stores (like a WH Smith) for example, people would sit for hours. They don't kick them out. The worst, is when they don't put stuff back....
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Originally Posted by Mike Harte
As a shopper, I must admit that it annoys me the hell when going to select my newspapers in the supermarket when I bother to buy any, that there is usually one or two people (always middle to late age and always male) who are stood by the display reading a newspaper.
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As for newspapers; no way! Once in a while, someone would flip threw sections looking for New York Times travel section to see if it was the day for that, but that's how far it would go.