Why would anyone actually buy supermarket tabloids?
927737
I do not buy tabloids at all-but, when there is a  long line in some grocery store, I do stand up there and read them. Heck, if it is crowded in the grocery store, I get the magazine, walk around and read them, then I put them back. It is not sitting at the "little table" at Thanksgiving, but, it is visiting the kids at that said table and see who's there. Before you head back to the "adult table" of course.
259145
I do occasionally chocolate and cereal bars and a few other things.... but they are expensive, although they don't need to be the supermarkets still make the same profit on these items as they do on the standard produce all the expense is passed on to the consumer.\n\nToo much greed from the big chain stores as if 100+% profit isn't enough.  If you don't live in a city try shopping in local farm stores they have good value, fresh and even chemical free produce that won't slowly kill you :)
597478
Yup, they have want ads all over the nation.  Remember that book sale at your school or place of work?  That's what they do.
342610
For the same reason you can but condoms in the supermarket, vodka at the ABC store, bullets at the WalMart (oops, scratch that one), K-Y Gel at the Food Lion, "Marilyn Manson" CD's at Target, and python-food (mouses) at the PetSmart.\n\nYou are not supposed to use these products at the "point of purchase", LOL! Though life might be funner if you were, don'tcha think!
703009
I agree. What happens is they do not have cautious writers converting specs to the catalogue blurb, and no quality in editing.\nAnd sometimes, to get the buyer to buy more expensive. High Street merchants around the world seem to be that way, at least to me.\n--CJ "That Cheeky Lad!"
174438
I believe that the items in question- discounts/rebates-are the items that were either, overly stocked items, or the Supermarket is just simply trying to sell the product faster than they anticipated haveing around, because it has to go, so that they can start putting up the new items that are comeing in up on the shelves. I also think that it's because the items date time for freshness is running-out.
549004
I shop there because there for food because none of the other supermarkets in town can beat their prices.  I try to buy things like toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent and other household cleaning items from the local dollar stores.  If there was a supermarket in town that could compete with Wal-Mart's prices on food, I would definitely shop there instead!!  I hate going into Wal-Mart because it is always so crowded and because the workers are not very friendly.  Of course, it would be hard to be friendly for what they get paid, but that's a whole different topic!
234066
I don't think they're legit. They get a real hard copy, make illegal copies and sell them for cheap by the masses.
302605
Because they can!!!  There are certain thing in our economy that we all have to have and will pay just about anything for.  Think about it....would you pay for overpriced gas or overpriced ice cream, overpriced baby diapers and toilet paper or overpriced magazines and movies.  If you have ever noticed those are the types of things that I think have the biggest price fluctuations because companies know we will just complain but buy anyway.
278704
I despise gossip magazines.........I dont know why people would even waste their money to buy them because nearly all of the time it is filled with lies and unethical invasions of people's privacy. We should remember that celebrities are human too and so they can make mistakes like any ordinary human.
882460
In every way they can, quite frankly.  First, they make the assumption that you are going to buy at least one of the type of product they sell, and so all they have to do is convince you to buy their brand.  This is getting the first assumption past you: you will buy a CD player or whatever.  Then the assumption that you can choose the brand you buy on the basis of information spoon-fed by the manufacturers of the products gets buy you, just as quickly.  That is, you don't really need to know the details of the products and how they differ one from another, and shopping for a whole lot of different suppliers in order to compare prices is too much bother, so not only have they got all those things buy you, they have you convinced that you can choose a brand and a style and all the details, including possibly the retail vendor, on the basis of "what the cool people do." \n\nThey get an awful lot past you if you pay any attention to them at all.  So learn to look past the advertisements to the facts about every purchase you contemplate, and do not assume you must purchase everything you think might be pleasing "if you could afford it."  Like my friend who uses the standard line "I'm going to save up my money and . . . " which equals "that's something I want."  The money gets spent, not saved.
875599
More to the point, who online would want to buy them?
858271
because they offer things for rock bottom prices.
110790
Why not? There are magazines for everything else!
848447
Why should it? I don't shop there.
600414
Because it sells newspapers.\nSo, is the real issue the newspapers or the readers?
410357
Because that's the kind of news that sells.\n\nNews organizations in a capitalist country (like the U.S.) operate on the market principle. They are trying to make a profit meaning they are trying to be watched/read by the most people they can.  Therefore they need to find a way to grab people's attentions so that they will buy the newspaper or not turn the channel.\n\nThe best way to grab someone's attention is to tell them they are in danger.  The viewer/reader will automatically worry and stick around to see what the danger is, what the source of the danger is and what they can do about it.\n\nThis translates into more sales and more viewers.\n\nSince this is a proven formula for success all media has adopted it in some way or another.