Yes, I have the same feeling about Central Camera, but I'm not even sure they are carrying much new cameras. A few months ago I thought for sure I'd be able to play with the Fuji x10, but they didn't have any in stock, which greatly surprised me. I thought for sure they'd have Fuji stuff.
I don't want to see brick and mortar stores to go away, but I have to say I find that often I go to a store looking for something, can't find it, and the sales clerk says I should go to the store's web site and I'd be able to order it online. When the consumer hears that enough, they start staying home to do their shopping at the computer, which doesn't help brick and mortar sales. Seems to me a new business model is needed, some kind of hybrid approach that is healthy for online and brick and mortar sales--as well as helpful to the consumer. Cheers, Christine Sent from my iPad > On Mar 13, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > I love Central Camera on Wabash and always try to stop in there when > downtown. A few years ago I had memorable conversation with the owner who > talked about the great history of the shop in his family over the years. I > hope they stay around - though for Pentax lenses and other years, they don't > have much to offer. > > I have an old photo (2006 - very high contrast) and comments about Central > Camera on my ancient static website: > > http://www.markcassino.com/newsite/stream/060509/scan-701_tu.htm > > Mark > >> On 3/13/2014 2:40 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> Wow. Truly bad news. >> >> While downtown the other day, I stopped at the independently owned Central >> Camera on Wabash ave to get a set of printer ink for the R2880 and some 13 x >> 19 inch Velvet Fine Art paper. Shockingly, Central Camera and absolutely no >> ink to sell for the R2880—none—zippo, and the bins for ink cartridges for >> other printer types were also utterly empty. No Velvet Fine Art paper was >> to be found as well. It seemed so odd, and I facetiously said, “are you >> going out of business,” and the guy said no—just out. So I placed my order >> with B&H photo and should get it next week. >> >> With Calumet going out of business and the shelves not looking so good at >> Central Camera, it will be tough for photographers in Chicago in future. >> >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >>> On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Calumet Photo closes all U.S. stores. No notice given to employees or >>> anyone else – everyone locked out, personal possessions still in >>> stores, rented equipment still out... >>> >>> http://petapixel.com/2014/03/13/calumetphoto-us-declared-bankruptcy-gave-employees-zero-notice/ >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > -- 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.
