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With online news services replacing print newspapers, for example, newsagents have no alternative but to find a new profession, whereas retailers need to move online in order to respond to Amazon’s competition.—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017 Televisions in bars played her hypnotic, threatening speeches, and local newsagents sold Mussolini calendars.—Joshua Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024 In Britain, the country’s newsagents, small corner shops that sell everything from papers and beer to grocery staples, are booming.—Saabira Chaudhuri, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2020 The newsagent was impatient, answering with short sentences, and insistently looking over my shoulder.—Luiz Romero, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2020 The trade association of newspapers and the national union of newsagents made similar points.—Luiz Romero, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2020 Her parents are Gujaratis who fled Uganda shortly before Idi Amin’s takeover in 1971 and founded first one newsagent and then a chain of them.—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019 In another, the woman found herself surrounded by workers, including a milkman, a gasman, a newsagent, and a plumber.—Mireille Juchau, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2019 Priti Patel, Home Secretary Patel is also a second-generation immigrant to the U.K., the daughter of Ugandan Indians who emigrated in the 1960s and set up a successful newsagent business.—Billy Perrigo, Time, 26 July 2019
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