Posted on 05/24/2015 8:19:05 PM PDT by Zakeet
Volume.
“While centered in Brea, California......”
My hometown growing up and never knew that.
Do you want us old folks to die right away, or can we keep grousing till we need thick glasses? (grin)
There were and still are publications like Penny Saver all over the place and they do and can be money makers. But what’s killing them is not so much the cost of print production but the costs involved in distribution.
The most sucessfull are free, do include news and reading matter of a local nature in them.
Many rely on leaving free copies at local small businesses in the area they are concentrated in, rather than use the USPS. But if you look around anywhere you reside. Be it a neighborhood in a major metro population center or a rural area. What your seeing are closed shops and for rent signs.
In addition the high cost of distribution passed on by the USPS for saturation house to house delivery added to their costs . Even those that set up their own saturation delivery systems have had difficulty dealing with passing on those unpredictable variable costs . That federal protection prohibiting “dumping” onto a local mailbox doesn’t help either .
= :^)
Because of the new minimum wage?
I have a number of clients over 65, some are over 80. Most of them have adapted well enough to technology, so I know it’s more than possible.
If the old folks voted for Obama or voted Dem, dying off yesterday would be nice.
When I was starting with our production company we were looking for laptops initially then connect a screen to them. I was in Valley Village CA as per CL address and one dude was selling laptops from his apartment. Really cheap and to this day 5 years ago, I still have them as they work. He was honest.
I wasn’t really keen on the Dells but they were good. To make a long story short, his sister comes out in full bikini and goes sunbathing right in front of me. She was hot. So in the end, I bought two of them. Morale of the story: I;m easy to deal with. ;)
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