Free Press confirms new Sunday edition

I have been a subscriber for 2 years, and I wonder how many people like me are daily subscribers who care very little about the weekday editions of the paper, however there is not substantial savings to be had in only being a weekend subscriber. With this current move, I will re-evaluate whether I am receiving good value for my money, but i suspect the freep will be losing another customer as i am certainly not interested in accepting an "expanded" saturday edition. C'mon freep, your monday and tuesday editions are laughable as is, and you're concerned about having to further reduce content!! What a joke. Yes the freep survived before without a sunday edition, but i can also recall when stores were not open on sundays, point being things change over time and this move simply defies common logic. I do think the freep will save money, but only from all the cancelled subscriptions no longer requiring such costs as employee wages and newsprint!!

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I concur with mg and metal2000...you'd really quit your subscription b/c there's no Sunday edition? Will you also stop shopping at Safeway if they decide to close one day each week? Do you change banks everytime they adjust their hours/days of operation too?
Come on, your at the store on Sunday anyway...if you have to pick up a tabloid, why not the WFP version?
And another thing...it's only been 24 years that you've had a Sunday edition of the newspaper...what did everyone do for the previous 110 years when the Free Press only published 6 days/week??

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I think this is not the bad thing most posters are making it out to be. I just last week cut back from 7 day to Saturday only sub. I spend time reading the paper but for the 10 articles I may find relevant or interesting it takes me 4 or 5 sections and a gazillion ads to sift through. The concept of all this paper to dispose of for the little benefit I find was the reason. I may find I am not happy with only browsing online and catching the evening news but I doubt I am alone and this is likely why the Free Press is needing to make changes. I know the ads pay the majority of the costs, but my feeling is that there is way too much of it.

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Once again a decision by a Winnipeg business that reflects no concern for customers who live outside the perimeter. No mention whatsoever from the Free Press of how decision affects those customers who have no access to vending boxes. One week it is closure of a rural TV station, the next the scaling back of our newspaper. Internet here we come. We seem to have few and dwindling options.

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Let me get this straight. DUH! Excuse me if I'm wrong and should be shot on sight to put me out of your misery. The Free Press is losing money because they have to print the Sunday paper. So The Free Press will cancel the Sunday paper printing and print it anyway and include it in the Saturday paper (how can you include Sunday content in the Saturday issue?). Hold on, you'll be printing it anyway so no savings and besides, as one reader put it, most of the stuff that was printed on Sunday was already included in Saturday's paper anyway (Homes, Detour, etc... and of course the numerous sales flyers that are included. Will I be getting the same stuff printed twice in the same paper?). Who needs Tabloids anyway. Most normal people, if they are really bored read that while they are in line at the cash desk while in Walmart, Safeway, Sobeys where they keep all that crap, for free. For the die hard crap readers, they usually have a subscription to their home or office since they don't need more crap at home unless they live in a crappy home. My math may not be correct but this is. It all adds up to 'Goodbye Winnipeg Tribune, I mean, Winnipeg Free Press, thanks for the times'.

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