Tom, It is a matter of reaching the chain's buyer for camera gear. Pentax has some relationship with Frys Electronics - a big box & huge TV/Computer/Electronics/parts supplier. (Many California locations, but they have one out by me in Chicago.) They carry some of the DSLR's and P&S's. But what is Pentax offering to help their products move off the shelves? Is Aston Kusher advertising them on TV, Radio, or in Print. NO!! So why should I let YOU take up valuable selling floor space in my store? I could put a Canon P&S there and sell 3 times the dollar volume. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: >> Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> I think that the single biggest thing Pentax could do to sell >>> more cameras is to get them into stores where people can buy them. >> >> Well, yeah. But that's a little like saying the best way to become >> rich is to make lots of money. It's true, but doesn't provide much >> helpful information about how to accomplish the task. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com > > So the question becomes... why DOESN'T Pentax have a high-end presence > in Costco, Walmart, Best Buy, and other nationwide brick and mortar > stores? Just about the only retail presence I see is camera shops, > which typically are selling at close to MSRP, and which get a small > fraction of the traffic the above mentioned stores receive. > > It's even rare for me to even see a Pentax P&S on sale here. > > Tom C. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
