Quite often the hosties would stuff the Gen Dec into your hand as soon as the doors opened and then strode into the terminal to clear WHSmiths out of fashion magazines and chocolate.
Aah yes - the old Saturday evening race across the apron between the crews of the Aviogenex 737, Adria DC9 and Balkan TU154 on adjacent stands to see who could get to WHSmith first. Border Force would put a stop to that nowadays!!
It was all rather less frenetic when UK crews appeared down route. If I recall correctly, the mobile "crew shop" was still visiting aircraft in Mahon well into the 2000s - Mahon was the last place I remember seeing one. Come to think of it, Reus was the last place I flew where they still had photographers taking pics of the passengers as they disembarked and that must have been about 2005.