Well, from what I have seen, and it is not limited to camera stores either, what happens is the old folks retire, and the kids are not interested in the business (Why should they be, when they are now doctors or lawyers?), so the store is sold to a chain such as Ritz. The chain moves in and cherry picks the business. That means they only sell the high profit quick turn over stuff. You see, unlike the previous owners they are not interested in photography, they are interested in making money. Service becomes nonexistent as the low wage employees don't care about anything but payday. Then the chain closes the store because it does not meet their profit center minimums.
Notice that nowhere in that paragraph is anything about all the customers buying from NYC causing the local store to die. In fact I have a friend that runs a store here in town, his prices are often lower than Wal-Marts on similar items, his turn over is in the twice a month range, he is the only full time employee, and he owns the building. If he retired and his kids did not want to run the business it would be dead in a month. It is a profit center because he makes it so, without him it would die very quickly. Most of the local stores that have closed blame Wal-Mart. Mostly, their owners had better things to do than run the store themselves, which I think has more to do with them not making money than Wal-Mart did. --graywolf Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Why is that? Did you have local camera shops? Why did they disappear? > > Shel > > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Bob Shell > >> The problem with this is that for a large number of us there are no >> local camera shops anymore. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
