as the sales and marketing director for Guideline Publications, we all have a magazine distributor who supplies the news outlets a retailer gets 25% and we pay the distributor as well. All unsold copies are pulped the newsagents returns them but the publisher does not get the copies back. The newsagent only pays for the copies he sells and returns any left overs. Prior to the current lockdown over 95% of retail outlets including WHS stores were open... we have continued to supply all the retailers through out this period.