The Daily Mail sells around 1.85 million copies a day. Its upmarket broadsheet companion the Maily Telegraph manages around 550,000, making it the most popular of the Qualities. These are the numbers touted to prospective advertisers to justify the price of getting their products promoted in their pages. So it was a little surprising to receive this photo from a Zelo Street regular.
Here are not one, not two, but four stacks of Daily Mail and Maily Telegraph, clearly identifiable as last Saturday’s editions, still unsold well into the morning. There are literally scores of copies on view. Perhaps this was taken in the kind of area that proves less receptive to these titles? Maybe the supermarket concerned does not cater to the aspirational middle classes?
Well, on both counts, have I got news for you: the supermarket where the photo was taken was not Asda or Aldi. It was not Tesco, Sainsbury’s or Morrison’s. It was taken in a branch of Waitrose. And you can’t get more aspirational than Waitrose. Why do you think that the Mail and Telegraph are so keen to talk about the likes of Pippa Middleton? It’s partly because she promotes Waitrose.
And the location of this Waitrose branch? It isn’t in Manchester or Merseyside, and certainly not in any part of the North East. Nor is it in the far flung provinces of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. It is right in the heart of what Paul Dacre and Tony Gallagher consider their part of Middle England: the photo was taken at the Petersfield, Hampshire branch.
So are the Mailand Tel selling quite as many copies as their PRs would like us to believe? You might wish to ask that. I couldn’t possibly comment.
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