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Toronto Star Thinks Outside The Box
Haven't seen one of these in real life yet, but this is clever.
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Newspaper boxes are becoming as obsolete as phone booths. No one likes a "dead tree" newspaper more than I do, but they are getting harder to find. I asked someone at Starbucks if they still sold newspapers there and they looked at me like I had three heads.
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Dale Patterson wrote:
Newspaper boxes are becoming as obsolete as phone booths. No one likes a "dead tree" newspaper more than I do, but they are getting harder to find. I asked someone at Starbucks if they still sold newspapers there and they looked at me like I had three heads.
The payphone is making a slow comeback for people with a dead battery or something else wrong with their phone.
It's just, instead of dozens around, there may only be one or two.
Also, places with no signal.
Toronto's TTC subway system has tons of payphones still. Spadina subway station alone (at bus platform level)
has 4 payphones side by side even though a cell signal is fine there.
I wonder if that will change if and when Rogers, Telus and Bell finally give in and agree to use the same source Freedom Mobile uses in the subway system.
As for the paper box, I still see some around but $4 for the Saturday star? They can take that $4 and SHOVE IT!!!!
The price is way too high. let the advertising pay for the bulk load of that and bring the price back down to $2 or $2.50 at the most.
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For about a decade or so the main purpose of newspaper boxes (at least the ones that remain) has been for branding/marketing purposes - keeping the newspaper's name visible - rather than actually selling newspapers. Where newspaper boxes used to be stuffed with dozens of newspapers in the morning, these days they're typically only supplied with two or three papers.
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And they were great for background props in movies to tell you what city a flick was supposedly set in - even if the titles of the papers were often phony.
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Newspaper boxes are becoming as obsolete as phone booths. No one likes a "dead tree" newspaper more than I do, but they are getting harder to find. I asked someone at Starbucks if they still sold newspapers there and they looked at me like I had three heads.
The payphone is making a slow comeback for people with a dead battery or something else wrong with their phone.
It's just, instead of dozens around, there may only be one or two.
Also, places with no signal.
Toronto's TTC subway system has tons of payphones still. Spadina subway station alone (at bus platform level)
has 4 payphones side by side even though a cell signal is fine there.
I wonder if that will change if and when Rogers, Telus and Bell finally give in and agree to use the same source Freedom Mobile uses in the subway system.
As for the paper box, I still see some around but $4 for the Saturday star? They can take that $4 and SHOVE IT!!!!
The price is way too high. let the advertising pay for the bulk load of that and bring the price back down to $2 or $2.50 at the most.
I was at Vancouver International Airport a week ago Saturday, and they were selling the Globe & Mail. $7.00! I’m guessing that price applies to all their editions across Canada.
I am very surprised that Toronto’s subway tunnels still don’t have LTE service that can be used by all carriers. It’s a bit of an embarrassment for the city when it comes to tourists and business visitors, as many North American cities have had LTE in their transit tunnels for some time now.