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Eliminating advertising circulars is not necessarily a good idea

During the National Grocers Association conference at the San Diego Convention Center, the experience of a Milwaukee-area chain which discontinued circular advertising but returned to the circular nearly a decade later was discussed.

Ted Balistreri, who is the co-owner of the Sendik’s Food Markets chain his grandfather founded as a single store in 1926, gave a presentation called “Is the Circular Dead?” in which he noted that replacing circular mailings or newspaper inserts with digital alternatives reduced cost but also reduced sales in the long term.

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