As newsagents dwindle in number the favourite place to buy a newspaper for many is the supermarket.
Newspaper resellers pay a premium price for their product to take up valuable floor space in retail premises.
Increasingly though when you walk into certain stores newspapers are being read rather than bought at the stand.
It's been a few years since The Nairnshire moved the BDM's from the back page to the inside, presumably making it more difficult for the casual reader to speed read through them and not buy the paper.
Nairn has no digital offering when it comes to news other than social media where plenty of stories are published but without any verification. The Spin falls very much into that category.
What is the future for local news, most newspapers struggle to even break even and many run at a loss. Will we just slide into an arena of fake news, not knowing if their's any truth in anything that we read on line? Does it really matter?
By the way supermarket newspaper readers, most if not all of them can be read at the library without guilt!
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