No longer getting Best Buy ad with Saturday paper?

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This is an odd question, but like many(?) folks I receive all the Sunday print ad circulars in a plastic bag with my newspaper (The Washington Post) on Saturday mornings. But for the last few weeks, the Best Buy circular has been missing for some reason. Has anyone else in the DC area experienced the same thing? I'm wondering whether something strange is going on, like BB prohibiting newspapers from distributing their ads on Saturday or other such weirdness.

I miss my BB ads.
 
[quote name='tangytangerine']You got your ads in the saturday paper? Weird, mine always comes in the sunday paper.[/quote]

I use to get best buy, and circuit city in the sunday,but now it never has either.
 
It may be an issue on the advertising sales side at your paper. At the last paper I worked for, BB pulled its circular completely from the Sunday distribution.
 
I just picked up the Sunday early edition of the Washington Post here in Fairfax, VA and it has both the Best Buy and Circuit City circulars. It seems to be hit or miss with either one of the them, because I've missed one or the other every week for the past month or so. I think whoever is putting the bag of circulars together might be forgetting to put the complete package together. I suppose you can go online tomorrow and check each website for the weekly ads.
 
My paper this week coming up didn't have the BB flier in it for some reason. When I called about it, they said they had it, though didn't pack it in for some reason when putting the paper together.

In fact, they were arguing with me over it, and I know for a fact that BB always has an ad in the paper. Same for CC and Target.
 
I've noticed that when I pick up the Toledo, OH paper, since it's the closest BB and CC to me, that lately it hasn't been having a BB AD ether, it hasn't had a CC ad for quite some time before that as well
 
While preprint inserting machines may occasionally (one in every 250-300 or so) fail to insert a preprint, if its been several weeks that you haven't been getting it, Best Buy has stopped buying your home delivery preprint zone. Single copy newspapers (such as the papers you would buy out of vending machines or at 7-11) are a different preprint zone (typically, very large geographic areas such as half or an entire county) so it can still be in your local 7-11 because Best Buy is forced to buy it for your area in single copy sales.

One of the most effective way to test advertising is to stop doing it and see what happens...that's what Best Buy is probably doing...seeing if they need to advertise to your area or would folks just show up anyway without advertising.
 
[quote name='K_G']
One of the most effective way to test advertising is to stop doing it and see what happens...that's what Best Buy is probably doing...seeing if they need to advertise to your area or would folks just show up anyway without advertising.[/quote]

That just sucks, lol

I just take the ads to Meijer here and PM
 
[quote name='tangytangerine']You got your ads in the saturday paper? Weird, mine always comes in the sunday paper.[/quote]

Same here, it's always been in the Sunday paper locally. Maybe they're just seeing if Joe Football or Suzy Soccermom will be annoyed if they can't see what the new sales are in certain geographic areas.

Honestly, with the internet being so prevalent in peoples homes and lives nowadays, I'm shocked we even have printed ads these days.
 
Sunday preprints in the Washington post have been delivered in some areas on Saturdays for several years now...its up the discretion of the carrier...This is allowed because the of the size of the Post's preprint packages and Sunday paper was so large/heavy, it was taking too long for the carriers to build complete papers and then there was only so many they could fit in their cars resulting in some papers getting delivered late. Since the Post's preprint package is already sealed in a plastic bag (I believe they are the only paper in the country that does this), it was decided that it was acceptable if the preprint package was delivered prior to the Sunday paper if it meant the Sunday paper would be delivered on time...it doesn't happen in all areas and even it may not happen every week...it depends on how the carrier wants to handle it
 
Actually, they've done that here for a while too, with one half of Sunday's paper delivered to the carriers houses on Sat afternoon sometime and the other half late Sat evening/early Sunday morning.

I know this because my one friend was a carrier in HS and I routinely would give him a hand on his route, so that we would be able to get it done and we could hang out.
 
Very interesting info -- thanks for the responses. The disappearance of the BB ad is messing up my Sat. morning ritual of checking out the inserts while having my coffee so that I can decide whether to run errands on Sat. or wait until Sun. (if there are any good deals coming up).

I also usually find the print ads a bit easier to browse than the online versions.

Oh well.
 
[quote name='Freezer-TPF-']Very interesting info -- thanks for the responses. The disappearance of the BB ad is messing up my Sat. morning ritual of checking out the inserts while having my coffee so that I can decide whether to run errands on Sat. or wait until Sun. (if there are any good deals coming up).

I also usually find the print ads a bit easier to browse than the online versions.

Oh well.[/QUOTE]


:rofl:

I am sorry but that was too funny. It has been a strange hit or miss in my area as well.

oh well.
 
We don't get anything over here, the nearest best buy and CC are 30 min away, the best buy ad just stopped showing up this week, we haven't gotten circuit city for months, which is why I enjoy reading the ads so much here. They seem to send us more ads for drugstore/convienience stores than anything else!
 
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