Lotteries in supermarkets?

[lurker172602]

Just saw this on the news. Lotteries may soon be able to be purchased in supermarkets. Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of gambling, what do you think?

I would think that as a society/community we would have learned the lesson of letting more and more things be sold in supermarkets. Butchers, bakeries, delis, independent petrol stations. Are we prepared to lose newsagents from our main streets as well?
Who will toss my paper onto my front lawn? What range of greeting cards will Woollies stock? How many specialist magazines will Coles have on their shelves?

[cherry*135]

We have a small mall with ww as biggest store. A sushi shop opened in the mall a couple of years ago and is doing well. Ww has spent $6.5m renovating their store, which includes an instore sushi shop. All new ww stores and renovated ones have to have the sushi shop whether they want one or not.
We also have another Japanese restaurant.
It is going to impact significantly on the owner/operated sushi shop... I don't think they will survive. 😞

Ww and Coles are also about to get into the Express Supermarket market (mini shops) .. Intend to compete or buy out 7/11 stores ..and other small independent 'corner' stores.

[green.fields]

Heaven help us if we lose the local newsagents. I frequent them regularly but for things other than lotto tickets, only get them once in a blue moon. I go there for magazines (ones that the supermarkets don't sell), also keep a lookout for books for the grandies, always something new in there, again nothing that Coles or Woolies sell. I get other stationary items there that the others don't sell.

I don't buy magazines or cards in the supermarkets, I buy them from small business's and I still get the newspaper delivered.

[green.fields]

Sushi shops in Woolies, couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that. I hate these big corporations, they just trample over the small people,

[cherry*135]

In NZ bookshops sell books, magazines, cards, stationery, gifts, daily newspapers. If newsagents don't diversify if they lose lotto, existing bookshops could expand into magazines, cards etc.

[lloydslights]

Unfortunately, people who buy magazines  and newspapers and cards are decreasing in numbers every week.  To put it frankly, we are a dying breed.  Generally, it is only the more mature who send birthday cards, get well cards, sympathy cards and wedding cards.

Coffee shops have sprung up and have reading matter for their customers.  Say a newsagent sells 5 magazine and 5 papers  to 1 coffee shop, and say each of those titles are read by 10 customers each day. That's a loss of 90 sales per day due to a lone coffee shop.

Diversification in country towns  where the business owner owns the property  may have a viable option.   But I can't think what.

A suburban newsagent cannot be any more diversified than they are as far as I can see.  The competition from Office Works, Spotlight, Dick Smith, etc. cannot be ignored.  A newsagent can sell cheaper  than the competition but people walk past the newsagents door to get to the big named stores.  

DEB

[amber-eyed-girl]

No sushi shop in my local Woolies. It was built only a couple of years ago and is on it's third rebranding. No idea what to call it now so I will stick to Woolies.

It has a large bottle shop at the main street entrance, not that busy at all. The pharmacy sells lottery tickets as well as two newsagents in that shopping strip, they are all busy with other sales so should survive.

[cherry*135]

Are the Woolies run differently in each State? The Woolies in Sydney have internal sushi bars, pizza shops and I think one had a coffee shop.

You can get the Sushi shop staff to make you what you want or you can buy the prepared ones, same with pizza's they make them fresh if required.

Another thing the big two supermarkets are getting into is selling clothes. Coles has its clothing range available in store, Woolies has just bought Ezibuy online clothing stores (a NZ owned brand) for $306m. You can buy online and pick up the items from nearest Big W or some Woolies stores.

What next.. haircuts? 

[amber-eyed-girl]

No sushi...no pizza...no Woolies coffee houses...

[green.fields]

No sushi bar in my local woolies and I doubt there ever will be as it's a smaller less busy store however 2 stores I went to recently where they are super busy and bigger have them. No coffee shop or pizza....yet.

[cherry*135]

My local Woolies (with the new sushi shop) is in a small town, it is not a big store.  The $6.5m renovations didn't make it any bigger in size, although they rearranged things and it does look more spacious at the vege/fruit/deli end