Posted by
Katy Grimes on Monday, April 06, 2009 4:14:17 PM
Every Monday morning, we arrive at the office to find two Sacramento Bee newspapers sitting outside the front door. We have called them every year and asked why we can't subscribe to Monday - Friday only, but they don't and won't offer that option. So we've asked that they charge us the same, but just don't deliver the darned newspaper on Saturday and Sunday. What a waste.
Do you realize how much money The Sacramento Bee could have saved over the years if they accomodated business subscribers who requested Monday - Friday subscriptions? Instead, they have been printing and producing millions of unread weekend papers to hundreds of thousands of offices, adding to their huge carbon footprint and countless recycle bins and birdcages.
The Sacramento Bee still could do this. Maybe a few reporters and photographers would still have their jobs had anyone really cared about the bottom line. If Editor Melanie Sills would stop pontificating and patronizing in her column long enough to ask meaningful and real questions of the readers, I am confident that she would find many local business owners who would share their real cost-cutting ideas - the kind that real businesses have been doing in order to survive. Waste is expensive.