Who delivers flyers for grocery stores?

Honestly, these flyers need to go away and be replaced by apps.

The pay for the kids that do these deliveries is abysmal. The kids get stacks of each flyer and the newspaper delivered in bundles and then they have to put them together by hand. So if there are twenty flyers, that’s 20 flyers that need to be put into each newspaper by hand. Then placed into a plastic bag if raining. Each flyer earns something like half a cent. And each additional flyer gets paid out on a sliding scale, so some flyers only earn a quarter of a penny or less. I remember earning $60 for stuffing flyers twice a week for about 65 houses. It took me 4 to 5 hours to prepare the papers each time and then delivery was another hour, hour and a half if the flyers didn’t fit in the shopping cart that I was using to deliver. I stopped after the first 2 months after I did the math and realized I would probably be better off spending the 40 plus hours a month collecting pennies off the ground. At least I wouldn’t need to smell the overpowering fresh ink of the flyers.

Calculated on a hourly basis, the pay barely adds up to a dollar an hour. It is ridiculously exploitative and is not a good way to teach a child about money.

danybear wrote: ↑ Anybody know how to find out WHO delivers flyers for grocery stores? Who ever does it in my neighbourhood is dropping then ball more and more. Tuesday is the usual day for print delivery, because RED FLAG doesn't post until Wednesday, no idea why.
This week No Frills is missing, usually its Walmart that's missing. I like top plan my week on Tuesday at the latest. There usied to be a smarmy "community newspaper that accompanied the flyers, but In guess that proved unprofitable for the dwindling number of canary owners.

My flyers come with the Mississauga News every Thursday.

playnicee1 wrote: ↑ Walmart won't price match anything on a phone. It has to be the actual flyer in hand.
I think I've had this problem at other stores also.
Plus also, with a phone my local FreshCo literally price matches, but with a flyer in hand they also take a few cents off the price match price.
(sometimes as much as 5 cents!!)

Not sure which Walmart's you go to, but almost every Walmart I've been to price matches from my phone. And I travel several cities throughout Ontario (Brampton, Pickering, Ajax, Oshawa, Markham, Toronto, etc).


Maybe a disgruntled cashier?

PointsHubby wrote: ↑ A zillion times better than doing this all the old fashioned paper route))

I'm still sticking with flyers for as long as they are delivered to my home. They're already there, so I may as well make good use of them.

peli33 wrote: ↑ Freshco is a Price Beat, they will PM then subtract $.01.

With the phone it is a penny, yes, but with the actual flyer they took 3 cents off. (sometimes 5 cents, but I have no idea why)

Both my kids deliver the local papers with the flyers. One has 3 routes and the other only one, and the pay is $100 and $40 a month, respectively. The actual work includes preparing the paper (putting 2 flyer packs and the actual paper together) and delivering it (which I help them with, enjoying spending time with both guys). All in, takes about 2.5 hours of work a week. Regrettably, there are just not enough pennies on the ground where we live, so kids have to look for other ways to earn.