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Thanks for the update, DG. I still have never seen a copy in Stratford. The map markers there are a bit odd. There's one at the International Station - which is now in use - but I have never seen anyone carrying a Standard at the station, even though the WHSMith there is on the map. I guess I am just too late - always after 6pm...
Have to admit that I'd feel quite excited if I saw a Standard on a westbound Central Line train at Stratford in the evening!

... not long after moving to E3 12 months ago, I realised it's virtually impossible to buy a book in E3. You probably can get something in Tesco, but that's about it. Sad sad sad. Yes, I realise we have an 'Idea Store'... Fried Chicken Cultural Wasteland E3.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Economics of Agglomeration. This basically says that it is almost always more cost effective to improve and expand what you already have (in-fill) rather than expand into new areas. So Evening Standard can improve their circulation more cost-effectively by putting in additional drop-off points into areas already adequately served rather than bolster up areas inadequately served.

At the end of the day Evening Standard is a commercial organisation and such clusterisation (for want of a better word) is virtually inevitable.

Funny - the east side of London used to be where all the business was - and thus where advertising revenue could be generated. I presume we're now just the plebs on the ever revolving wheel? Not even worth throwing scraps of paper at us.

No longer available in New Barnet. There were occasionally a handful of copies remaining near the exit of Sainsbury's at 5pm. However the special 'Evening Standard' dump bin disappeared last week.

The Blackwall Tunnel fire came below a story on sprouts on their website this week, near the foot of the page.

*wonders about the language profile of London cf this map*

harder to get even at canary wharf, now it is free: they give them all away by about 5pm, and none left by the time I travel home.

Being only slightly snarky, if I wanted to read the Daily Mail, couldn't I just buy it from any normal newsagent?

I'm not too bothered that Waltham Forest doesn't get the Standard. It's always been a (sub) Standard newspaper anyway and the fact that it is free doesn't make a difference to this Walthamstonian. It's a Tory rag which has always given minimal column inches to the glorious Fulham FC in favour of such London luminaries as Manchester United so I'm not losing sleep over this issue.

An Asda store near me in the London Borough of Hounslow, which previously had the Evening Standard, told me last week that they are now not available, and as with Daves posting above the "bin" has gone.

I think instead of the SubStandard or DoubleStandard I'll now have to start calling it the West London Standard

Eskimo Pie: I used to fantasise about opening a bookshop in E3, but realised I'd go bankrupt.

There is a bookshop on the Queen Mary College site: here.
Under its previous management it used to have quite a good General Fiction section as well as 'Every Law Student's Guide to Tort' etc. I haven't been in there lately, but it was a bit of an oasis for me when I lived at Mile End.

Otherwise, you're quite right, it's supermarkets or going into Stratford where the WHSmith used to be quite good and is now rubbish.

www.amazon.co.uk it is, then

It is weird that many of the distribution points they originally advertised never materialised. Perhaps there will be a change if/when they get some competition.

As the Standard is an odious rag of a newspaper I struggle to see why you are concerned about non distribution in East London. The Standard has never been representative of London and its latest move just reaffirms this aspect. I get the damn things thrust in to my hands at lunchtime but I don't take them - why would I wish to read such trash even if it is free?

If you're that worried about not getting your copy, you can of course read it on the internet.

The Evening Standard has always been an awful rag, personally this post has made me think about swapping my house in Shepherd's Bush for one in Bow!

I have read on this very blog how bad you think the Standard is DG, why have you become concerned with how difficult it is to get since it became free?

I visited my folks in Palmers Green north London last week; the newsagents next door to the train station has been calling the ES suppliers for weeks trying to get copies to no avail. Therefore, not as many people are coming into the shop to pick up a copy - even a free one - so not as many people are buying the extra bits and pieces which make the difference between him paying the bills and not! So daft - he's got demand for it and they won't bring the copies round ....

Why worry? The ES is reactionary trash. I wouldn't take if you paid me.











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