Magazine newsstand and distribution task

I went to WHSmith to have a look at how music magazines have been displayed and what ones have been displayed. First of all, all the magazines are divided into sections. There is a whole section for music magazines and at the top it states 'music' which makes it easy to spot the section and find music magazines. All the music magazines have just been stacked on shelves and as you can see in the image there are only three shelves for music magazines. Stacking magazines on shelves allows people to still see the masthead because the top of the magazine does not get covered by a different magazine. This is beneficial because people can still easily identify the magazine they are looking for. On the other hand, not all cover lines can be seen only the ones that are on the magazines that are displayed at the front of all other magazines. This puts the other magazines at a disadvantage because people can't see the cover lines straight away which means they can't get an insight of what is inside the magazine straight away.The front covers of the magazines that have been display differ. Some magazines uses dark covers and some used light covers. However all magazines uses the main conventions of front covers, they all have an image, masthead, cover lines, bar code etc..The only thing that is different is the style of the front cover and this is understandable because there are different music genre magazines. Finally the images of all the magazine clearly reflect the magazines genre. All images can be seen but not the whole image is seen only some parts of it due to the way they have been displayed. There are different music magazine title available for example: DJ, MixMag, Kerrang, Rock and others. However the rock genre magazines are displayed the most. This means there is a wider range of them and the options are wider compared to other genres.