Tough competition from other newspapers has forced The Post Newspapers to instruct their vendors to stop selling other papers and just be available exclusively selling the one paper.
According the affected vendors, many of them were being pressured for selling copies of the competing Daily Nation newspaper at selling points throughout the city, while The Post was underselling, allegedly because it was positioned “at the back” of the stack presented to motorists.
However some of the street vendors have complained that the exclusivity requirement by the Post was depriving them of opportunities to make more money selling diverse publications.
“Yes we do not sell other papers, becuase our bosses were angered by the fact that here at the Manda Hill robots when we are selling maybe we put the Daily Nation in front and The Post at the back, but that did not make The Post happy, and they instructed us to either only sell their paper or quit,” said the vendor.
“It has become difficult to sell The Post because people ask for other papers so like you have seen other papers are finished. Our friends who sell The Post now have to go back with the papers.”
The drastic shift to three different pro-government newspapers has led to people to led to falling sales of The Post, according to vendors, who say they have found it very difficult to liquidate the stacks of papers they are provided with each morning.
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