Newsagent's shop

In Canada and the United States, newsstands are often open stalls in public locations such as streets, or in a transit terminal or station (subway, rail, or airport).

[4] Retail newsagencies[5] primarily offer a comprehensive range of newspapers and magazines, as well as stationery and greeting cards.

Distribution newsagencies[5] offer home delivery of a comprehensive range of newspapers and magazines, These can be quite large and sophisticated businesses.

In Greece, newsagents' shops are called periptera (singular: periptero) and they sell newspapers and magazines, but also other goods like beverages (including alcoholic ones), snacks, tobacco; and other kinds of merchandise.

[6][7] In Italy, newsagents' shops are known as edicola and are usually family-owned, free-standing kiosks that only deal in periodical publications, stickers, bus tickets and the occasional book and cut-price DVD.

In addition to newspapers and magazines, they sell beverages, snack foods, postage stamps, cigarettes, and many other kinds of merchandise.

Other New York newsstands are located inside airports, hotels and office buildings – and even beneath street level in underground concourses or on subway platforms.

Prior to this, newsstands caused limited visibility for police officers patrolling the subway stations, as well as impeding crowd movement.