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Things Placed In Front of The Magazine Rack: The Thanksgiving Turkey Edition

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

It’s the weekend before Thanksgiving. One of the busiest weeks in the supermarket world. In the magazine business, it’s the run up to the very busy Christmas season. Customers are in and out of the stores picking up all of … Continue reading →

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Things Placed In Front of The Magazine Rack Part 7 0f…The Fully Charged Edition

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

This just in from our US News and World Report correspondent, Mark White, V.P. of Specialty Marketing. I’ll let his words describe what he found: The good news is that our new Secrets of the Civil War got placement by … Continue reading →

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Things Placed in Front of The Magazine Rack: Part 5 of…

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Over the years, check out space has gone from being the exclusive domain of the larger mainstream magazine publishers to space shared with soft drinks, candy and DVDs. As this blog has pointed out, we sometimes even share space with … Continue reading →

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Things Placed In Front of The Magazine Rack: Part 2 of…. (And One More Thing)

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

If I were a more fair minded person, I’d stop picking on this particular retailer. But this week, I was presented with a trifecta of bad. Perhaps even St. Thomas Aquinas would have had trouble holding back. I can be … Continue reading →

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