On 9/1/13, P. J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: >It seems that old fashioned camera stores can survive better than huge >faceless chains. It just requires /work/ , and probably a bit of >masochism. Milford Photo, seems to be surviving very nicely, at least >for now. It probably helps that every other camera store in a 100 mile >radius has dried up and blown away.
There used to be a fantastic independent photographic shop in Oxford called Morris Photographic - in fact many a PDMLer who has made the trip to Oxford was dragged in there by me at some point.. <http://www.highstreetuk.com/oxford/Oxford_high_street.jpeg> (blue building) but for quite some years now they closed the shop and evacuated from Oxford, retreating from extortionate rent and lack of decent trade. Sure, tourists would come in and buy the odd case and batteries, but the real money is in the high value items. Instead, they set up in a business unit about 45 mins drive away right up in the cotswolds near a village called Chipping Norton, where they still are. They revamped the website and are now a major online retailer. The joy is though, they still have an aladdin's cave showroom chock full of lowepro bags and manfrotto kit, not to mention cameras of all types. No appointment necessary, if you make the trip you just turn up like any old shop. Brilliant. So rather than try and beat the web business, they embraced it, and survived. <http://www.morrisphoto.co.uk/about.html> Just sayin -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Producion ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- 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.
