----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts"
Subject: Re: The Nature of Film's Final Throes
I'm watching to see when the first such place opens up *without* a minilab. I'm also waiting to see when the first one is pulled out of an existing location because the income is no longer worth the trouble. Anyone care to speculate on this one?<g>
The income not worth the trouble is not going to be a problem real soon. I think the strategy is to make the customer do several trips into the store. I can run off a 100 print digital order in about 20 minutes, but if I take a couple of hours, there is a good chance that customer will leave the premises and come back, generating 2 retail opportunities for the store, rather than just one.
William Robb
