Readers' use of street vending boxes on the decline
Posted by Emily Dilling on May 25, 2009 at 2:38 AM
As readers get their news from new, mostly online, sources, the use of newspaper vending boxes is on the decline, CNN reported.
An interview with a newspaper delivery driver revealed that the vending boxes on his route are being stocked with a minimal amount of newspapers-sometimes only 5-7 per day.
An interview with a newspaper delivery driver revealed that the vending boxes on his route are being stocked with a minimal amount of newspapers-sometimes only 5-7 per day.
While the driver said vending boxes at train stations still have a clientele, boxes elsewhere are witnesses to reduced interest and patronage. The New York Times, which had 13,300 vending boxes in 1999, now counts a mere 5,678 in service.
The figures seem to mark the pending disappearence of vending boxes, of which only 65,000 remain out of the 100,000 on streets across the country at their peak in the 1980s.
The figures seem to mark the pending disappearence of vending boxes, of which only 65,000 remain out of the 100,000 on streets across the country at their peak in the 1980s.
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