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DEAR ABBY: My 16-year-old son and I are having a debate and would love your take on the matter. I think if you stand in a grocery store checkout line and read a magazine without buying it that it's stealing. He doesn't agree. What do you say? -- JUST LOOKING

DEAR JUST: If your son is reading the magazine from cover to cover, then I agree he's helping himself to something he's not entitled to. If he is only "sampling" to see if there are enough articles in the magazine that he thinks it's worth buying, I wouldn't call it theft. Using your yardstick, judging from the number of people I have seen at checkout counters with their noses buried in the tabloids, that would make us a nation of thieves.



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Stealing what? Ads? Tabloid stupid articles? I don't think it's stealing. Whatever the store doesn't sell is returned so the store is not out any money, Advertisers pay good money to the magazine to have their ads strategically placed, so the magazine company isn't losing.

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Well there is nothing stopping Magazines from selling their magazines in sealed packages or sealed tabs so you can't open them. If they were losing a lot of money, they certainly could take that approach.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Well there is nothing stopping Magazines from selling their magazines in sealed packages or sealed tabs so you can't open them. If they were losing a lot of money, they certainly could take that approach.

 Heck, if it's good enough for Playboy!!!

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Exactly.

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Seriously, though, print media has been struggling for a while.

Our library offers magazines both online & "hard copy."

So maybe, by looking at a magazine, a person might see an article that makes them want to buy the issue.

It happened to me once...involving Nathan Fillion and People!

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I thought those were placed there to entertain you while you wait.

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My grocery store has all sorts of magazines, but the lines are so short, and move so quickly, there's no time to browse through them!



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How else would we find out about the alien babies???

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Anything in the check out line are impulse buys.

The good magazines are in the magazine rack.

He isn't stealing.



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Playboy isn't printing fully nudes anymore.

Wonder how that will affect sales.

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Lawyerlady wrote:

I thought those were placed there to entertain you while you wait.

 Me, too.  I get my latest dose of scandal while in line.



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flan327 wrote:

How else would we find out about the alien babies???

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 I know, right?



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We can poke all the fun at those tabloids but that is how the whole John Edward's affair was made public.

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FNW wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

I thought those were placed there to entertain you while you wait.

 Me, too.  I get my latest dose of scandal while in line.

 Well......did you know that Princess Kate was pregnant again and they are naming "her" Diana?

evileye

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

We can poke all the fun at those tabloids but that is how the whole John Edward's affair was made public.

 Yeah, occasionally they print a story that's true...

But very rarely!

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flan327 wrote:
I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

We can poke all the fun at those tabloids but that is how the whole John Edward's affair was made public.

 Yeah, occasionally they print a story that's true...

But very rarely!

flan

 I love the entertaining headlines!  I would be sad to not have them to read while in line.



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FNW wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:

I thought those were placed there to entertain you while you wait.

 Me, too.  I get my latest dose of scandal while in line.

 Well......did you know that Princess Kate was pregnant again and they are naming "her" Diana?

evileye

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 At one point I thought she was expecting twins...



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If the stores dont want us reading the mags from cover to cover, perhaps they need to open a few more lanes so people arent waiting in line to check out for 25 minutes. grrrr!

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Cheerios4606 wrote:

If the stores don't want us reading the mags from cover to cover, perhaps they need to open a few more lanes so people arent waiting in line to check out for 25 minutes. grrrr!

 YES !!!

 



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Well, if it's wrong, I don't want to be right.

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Lawyerlady wrote:

Well, if it's wrong, I don't want to be right.

 That sounds familiar somehow ..



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