Why I hate the Newspaper

Handling newspaper duties at a petrol station involves inserting up to three sections into large stacks in the cold by an automatic door while repeatedly pausing to attend to customers, followed by counting, logging, bundling, and returning the unsold daily copies that comprise at least half the stock.

Dealing with publications depicting nearly naked women induces awkwardness around customers, recalling past retail encounters selling condoms and pornographic magazines in Japanese convenience stores.

Older men make up the majority of newspaper customers despite recurring expenses, ink residue, unwieldy physical dimensions, and free online options, though perceived ages can be deceptive.

An initial desire for newspaper sales to stop to remove tedious chores gave way to supporting ongoing paper purchases out of fear that automation could eliminate petrol station jobs.

Petrol station newspaper insertion duties and difficulties caused by interruptions and cold air from the automatic door.

Logging, bundling, and returning unsold daily newspapers.

Awkwardness handling sexually suggestive newspapers alongside retail experiences involving pornographic magazines and condoms.

Inconveniences and costs of physical newspapers compared to accessing news online.

Demographics of newspaper buyers and observations regarding young customers appearing older than their age.

Speculation on the decline of newspapers and personal job security concerns leading to reversed sentiment.

A customer purchasing alcohol presented identification revealing a 1999 birth year despite initially looking around 30 years old.

Convenience store retail work in Japan involved selling explicit pornographic magazines to customers.

Whether newspaper purchasers estimated to be in their 40s or looking older might actually be younger individuals born around 1999.

The exact timeline and outcome of when older print newspaper readers will decline and whether physical newspapers will disappear from shops within 20 years.