No, Bill, it has been going on for a lot longer than that. There were some neat stores about when I was a kid. I remember my dad saying that there were some neat stores around when he was a kid. Ditto, my granddad. The bazaar at Babylon has disapeared, in fact Babylon has disapeared...
--graywolf William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Øsleby" > Subject: RE: Support your Local Camera Shop (was: Re: Price of K10D in > Oz) > > >> I could not agree more John. Support your community, and all that. >> That's >> all good shit. >> >> But unfortunately that's all it is, shit. In my little community I >> have a >> local photo store. Right there, 100 meters away from my house. But no >> Pentax >> gear. When I go there, the boss is never in, and those who are present >> most >> of the time know nooothing, about nooothing. > > Unfortunately, the erosion in retail has been going on long enough now > that good service is pretty much a thing of the past. > Support of local businesses has been an issue for over well over a > decade now. > If you had wanted a good local camera shop in 2006, you should have > thought of it in the mid 1990s when they still existed. > > William Robb > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
