Wal-Mart Pulling Free Newspapers?

The Rome Newswire tells us today that Bentonville has ordered all of the area stores near Rome, Georgia to remove all free newspaper racks.

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[Walmart hater]

Walmart is a community killer!

We should all help pitch in and call these stores to let them know we want the free papers back in.

[goodcitizen]

no we should all call and congratulate them for making a wise move and not allowing the birdcage liners in their stores.

[kinsey]

Walmart hater wrote:

Walmart is a community killer!
We should all help pitch in and call these stores to let them know we want the free papers back in.

Why should Wal-Mart allow any business to make money off of its back?

Duke sells ads. If people can't get his paper, he can't sell ads. He uses businesses to further his goals. Leech.

[BrainyGirl]

I actually saw on CCB that an appeal from Jerry was posted asking people to call Wal-Mart. Is he offering free ads now? Yet he whines when he doesn't get free space? That is the latest news "story" on the Polknewswire as if there hasn't been anything else to report!

[WalMart Lover]

Now THAT is funny as hell! When you can't even get a store like WalMart to carry something for FREE you must really SUCK! Duke is a freeloading cheapskate anyway so he should be used to it. This is just the beginning of the end of his free ride. WalMart is in business to make money, not give shit away. The Rome News is losing PAID subscribers left and right and Duke is giving week old news away for free? What kind of dumbass advertiser pays for that and then what kind of a fool gives a paper away while REAL papers like the RNT & AJC are folding? Jerry Duke that's who! LMAO!!

[Goodfella]

You dumbasses don't have a clue. RomeNewswire has no paid subscribers. They are continuing to grow and have recently expanded their operation. The free newspapers are nothing more than advertisement for the online site. Don't try to act like you have a clue. You obviously don't have a clue how the newswire functions.

[WalMart Lover]

Walmart hater wrote:

Walmart is a community killer!

No, I would call them Newswire killers and good deed doers.

Walmart hater wrote:

We should all help pitch in and call these stores to let them know we want the free papers back in.

I think not. Didn't notice them before and certainly won't now.

Here is another thread about this topic:
http://www.topix.net/forum/city/rome-ga/TD2UC...

[MSO4]

Goodfella wrote:

You dumbasses don't have a clue. RomeNewswire has no paid subscribers. They are continuing to grow and have recently expanded their operation. The free newspapers are nothing more than advertisement for the online site. Don't try to act like you have a clue. You obviously don't have a clue how the newswire functions.

How is the view beneath Jerry's desk?

[rnt driver]

Hometown Headlines wrote:

"Free" newspaper ad sales are based mostly on promised distribution. Maybe that's the real issue behind this issue.

I wonder which paper is still available at WelMart. Oh, it's the REAL paper called The Rome News Tribune! The one that people actually read and PAY for. I think Hometown Headlines is right in that Jerry Duke is using the idea of big stores housing his papers trying to impress his sponsors because of that store's known foot traffic. The problem is that Jerry's are free! How does he know how many were actually taken to be read and not just thrown away. There's no way to track that info if you don't have subscriptions or sales receipts. Leave it to the real paper Jerry and get your literally worthless crap out of those stores. It's just more for that parking lot sweeper to suck up every night.

Another similar thread
http://www.topix.net/forum/city/rome-ga/TD2UC...