Are self-serve checkouts cutting into magazine sales?

Call it the law of unintended consequences. Many major consumer magazines, including the likes of Canadian Living, Homemaker's, Flare and so on depend on impulse purchases at the supermarket checkout for a good part of their newsstand sales. A speaker at a Magazine Publishers of America conference, reported in Folio:, says that self-checkouts threaten to cut into these sales.Michael Porché, CEO