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Loss of D2D contracts?

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Loss of D2D contracts?

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Straw poll thingy,Tesco and the co-op leaflets are being delivered by not sure who but not us!
Wondering if it's national (I'm in SE Lon) and what other contracts we have lost.
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POSTMAN wrote:Straw poll thingy,Tesco and the co-op leaflets are being delivered by not sure who but not us!
Wondering if it's national (I'm in SE Lon) and what other contracts we have lost.
we had coop in the weekly free newspaper they are welcome to them :thumbup
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I do not think Tesco deliver leaflets - perhaps not anymore...

The Coop - do they even have the money or the shops these days. Our Coop closed a few years back and replaced by Asda and they do the leaflets but I think it is targeted...
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CO-OP & Farm Foods in the mid week free paper and us in the same wk. Tesco always been in the free press. :crazy:
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We have coop at least fortnightly
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Haven't had Domino's pizza for a while, still get them through the letter box though.
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It alternates between companies, if we don't get morrisons or farmfoods one week then you'll see someone else delivering them. Good luck to them, we simply haven't enough time to do them with our workload.
To get customers to like us again we should have targeted d2d's not boring ones like boilers or domino's but local garden centres or community leaflets etc.
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POSTMAN wrote:Straw poll thingy,Tesco and the co-op leaflets are being delivered by not sure who but not us!
Wondering if it's national (I'm in SE Lon) and what other contracts we have lost.

The reverse.
18 months ago, or so, TNT were delivering leaflets on our patch. Not any longer! I reckon we’ve seen ‘em off. :wave

I imagine that the people doing them were paid a pittance and, consequently, they didn’t give a monkey’s where they were dumped.
The advertisers got tired of shelling out for a rubbish service.

A bit like the early days of Sunny Delight, everybody turned orange and then started to worry what the f**k it was doing to them. :chuckle
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POSTMAN wrote:Straw poll thingy,Tesco and the co-op leaflets are being delivered by not sure who but not us!
Wondering if it's national (I'm in SE Lon) and what other contracts we have lost.
We get co-op often still, but I've also been on delivery and seen them in letterboxes from someone else so it appears they spread the contracts between RM and other deliver companies. We still get Tesco, Morrisons, Iceland etc etc though our office isn't particularly heavy for D2D. 4 lots is usually the most we get and the average is probably 2 per week.
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OnAFlyer wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:Straw poll thingy,Tesco and the co-op leaflets are being delivered by not sure who but not us!
Wondering if it's national (I'm in SE Lon) and what other contracts we have lost.
We get co-op often still, but I've also been on delivery and seen them in letterboxes from someone else so it appears they spread the contracts between RM and other deliver companies. We still get Tesco, Morrisons, Iceland etc etc though our office isn't particularly heavy for D2D. 4 lots is usually the most we get and the average is probably 2 per week.
we dont get tesco or iceland