Subject | Re: Calumet files Chapter 7 |
From | Scott Schuckert |
Date | 03/15/2014 02:21 (03/14/2014 21:21) |
Message-ID | <140320142121377758%not@aol.com> |
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Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
Follows | George Kerby |
Followups | Tony Cooper (3h & 9m) PeterN (19h) |
George KerbyMe too, with three stores that survived into the mid-80's. We had a used department, we had a public darkroom, we had rentals, we had a DIY mounting and framing area, we had a gallery, we had contests, we had free training, we had free friggin COFFEE - but at the end of the day, people basically sucked it up and bought from the big New York stores.
THAT is EXACTLY what people would do to me when I was a store manager for a local mom n pop store here. Even though, Nikon, Olympus and Canon would give us deals and quantity breaks in wholesale to us, folks would come in and waste hours of my and my staff's time and then leave and buy from B&H or some other mail order outfit back in the late 70's.