Price of Business in the UK The high price of coop fees for prime display during the holiday selling season in the UK has sparked a wave of articles in London’s Times (which claims to have first “exposed” coop payments five years ago). The paper says that WH Smith is charging about $94,000 a week to participate in the “adult gold” level of its “recommended reads” program in the weeks before Christmas. A spokesman for Smith’s says that the adult gold program is “oversubscribed.” Regular “read of the week” slots reportedly cost $28,000 a week at Smith’s, while Waterstone’s charges […]
