You Know You Are Old When

orezok · Monday at 12:31 PM

Sigarms · Monday at 12:52 PM

LouNY said:
Of course many shops would have a couple of papers delivered each day for customers to read while waiting as well a stack of magazines.

Show me a shop that has daily newspaper delivered to it today.

Stack of magazines is easy to see where they are being delivered to

Oaktree · Monday at 4:35 PM

Alan46 said:
It’s a bunch of papers with the latest news and a sh#t load of advertising, and it’s only 10 cents, maybe now it costs a quarter!!!

Been a while since you bought one? Even the weeklies where the "news" is mostly press releases are pushing $2 here.

IGA-type market in neighboring town puts day-old papers out in a basket for free. I'll grab them when I'm there. Last time I got a Sunday paper (actually Sat-Sun edition) it was 2 thin sections plus a supermarket flyer. Remember when the Sunday paper was over an inch thick? Not sure what it goes for these days, but nothing I'd pay more than 50¢ for.

Oaktree · Monday at 4:38 PM

Sigarms said:
Show me a shop that has daily newspaper delivered to it today.

Stack of magazines is easy to see where they are being delivered to

I'll still see it occasionally. I think my dentist's office does.
Magazines usually the address label is torn off.

Ever notice that the places that keep you waiting the longest have the worst selection of reading material? At least we're starting to see it again...during covid no one had anything.

Jstpssng · Monday at 5:03 PM

Oaktree said:
I'll still see it occasionally. I think my dentist's office does.
Magazines usually the address label is torn off.

Ever notice that the places that keep you waiting the longest have the worst selection of reading material? At least we're starting to see it again...during covid no one had anything.

I've learned to bring a book into the Dr office.

WinterDeere · Tuesday at 2:17 AM

Oaktree said:
Been a while since you bought one? Even the weeklies where the "news" is mostly press releases are pushing $2 here.

Most of our local papers started going online about 20 years ago, and by 10 years ago many stopped printing paper copy. I’m surprised any still print, other than the biggies.

I assume Wall Street Journal and Philadelphia Inquirer still make paper copy, but I haven’t bothered to look in maybe close to 20 years.

The online subscription model is a tough sell, when so much news is available for free.

Sigarms · Tuesday at 6:10 AM

Alan46 said:
It’s a bunch of papers with the latest news and a sh#t load of advertising, and it’s only 10 cents, maybe now it costs a quarter!!!

Winston Salem Journal (Winston Salem's total population of 250K, total county population 382K)

$3 a copy if you pick it up weekdays, $4 for the Sunday paper.

Only like $148 for daily delivery, but you never know when you're going to get the paper delivered or if it will be delivered, as I told them to shove it at least 3 times because they could never be be remotely close to a regular time frame for delivery.

They also gutted the comics.

Mentioned in my fathers obituary

"Tony enjoyed a cup of tea with jelly toast and the newspaper, which he'd read cover to cover."

His tea, jelly toast and newspaper was generally in the morning. He rubbed off on me in more ways that I would have believed, the newspaper being one of them.

Slowly, the newspaper business is killing itself and I can understand why. That said, will still try to pick up the Wednesday paper because that's coupon day

I would never move to California, but the San Fransisco Chronicle blew me away with it's content, and the comics were the best buy far in any newspaper I've seen.

Runner · Tuesday at 6:13 AM

WinterDeere said:
Most of our local papers started going online about 20 years ago, and by 10 years ago many stopped printing paper copy. I’m surprised any still print, other than the biggies.

I assume Wall Street Journal and Philadelphia Inquirer still make paper copy, but I haven’t bothered to look in maybe close to 20 years.

The online subscription model is a tough sell, when so much news is available for free.

The KC Star spent tons of $ on this building, I think in the 80's. Now being converted to a data center.

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MossRoad · Tuesday at 8:28 AM

Runner said:
The KC Star spent tons of $ on this building, I think in the 80's. Now being converted to a data center.

Patmos To Convert the Iconic Kansas City Star Building into a State-of-the-Art 100 MW Data Center

Patmos is proud to announce the repurposing of the former Kansas City Star printing press as the location for its new flagship data center. This strategic expansion enhances Patmos’ presence to meet the growing demand for scalable, high-density computing infrastructure, reaffirming its...

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The paper I worked for spent about $26M on an addition and new press in 1993 to replace the press that had been running since 1921. The new press was shut down in 2017 and scrapped. It's now a church. Kinda fitting use for the building, as it's 6 stories tall with a cathedral ceiling.

They got their money's worth out of the press. ROI was less than a decade.