Google| Subject | Re: Will Tony apologize? (was: Re: Colonial Photo & Hobby) |
| From | Tony Cooper |
| Date | 2014-04-21 23:47 (2014-04-21 17:47) |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | Sandman |
| Followups | Sandman (7h & 33m) > Tony Cooper |
On 21 Apr 2014 20:25:35 GMT, Sandman <mr@sandman.net>wrote:
Sandman
In article <nkgal9dcnr1t96dasifg5162ua5vv92jhp@4ax.com>, Tony Cooper wrote:SandmanTony CooperFor the record, the floor plan is actually pretty accurate, even if individual shelves may not be. But it adequately represents the size of the small camera section in relation to the rest of the store.nospam
although i haven't been to the store, i doubt the exact percentage is significantly different than 27%. maybe it's 35% or maybe it's 20%. the point is that it's not all that much and actually less than half of the store.
What difference does the amount of floorspace allocated to photography products make?
It does when you're calling someone a liar when he wasn't.
What? The percentage that something is of the whole makes that something "tiny" or "huge"? You really want to go with this?Tony CooperSandman
If it is less than half of the store's square footage, does that make the department "tiny"?
In this case, yes. Percentages doesn't make things tiny, it's the percentage of *what* that makes something tiny or huge.
The population of Stockholm's metropolitan area is 2,163,042. That is 22% of the population of Sweden.
So, then I should deduce that Stockholm is a tiny city?
(Figures obtained from wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm)
No, it's a business decision. If a retailer can derive X amount of profit from selling a certain volume of a product line at list price, then the retailer must increase the volume to obtain the same amount of profit at a discounted price. If the retailer does not think the increased volume is possible, then the retailer should continue to sell at the list price. The assumption is that, in this case, the increased volume number is not attainable if the business is otherwise well-managed.Tony CooperSandman
Some lament that Colonial does not discount accessory items or have sales other than factory-sponsored specials, but that's not a size issue.
Naturally. But that's a shame.
The store has been in business for almost 60 years. They have outlasted all competitive stores that specialize in photography products except the much smaller Harmon Photo that has been around since 1973. Ritz was here and gone, Wolfe was here and gone, and several non-chain stores have opened and are now gone. Bennett Camera was the second biggest player in cameras, but they are now gone.Tony CooperSandman
I suspect that the owner, Don Rausch, would like to have a more modern physical facility in a more attractive neighborhood. (I've talked to Don several times, but not about this.)
Then perhaps he could flesh out and make a bigger camera section where he can show the merchandise in a more selling manner.
And you presume to tell them that they could operate in a more "selling manner"?
What do you know of the ROI in hobby products that tells you that increasing the space for cameras would provide a better return than using that space to sell RC models?
You are about as observant in this as you were in "the loop" when you thought Best Buy was a nationally known camera store. The area is very store-heavy. There are two Vietnamese grocery stores in the building to the north of Colonial. *Large* grocery stores. Colonial shares that parking lot with them, but has designated spaces just for Colonial customers.Tony CooperSandman
On the plus side, the building has adequate and convenient parking. That's a big plus in this town.
Yeah, it had a fairly sized parking to the side, probably shared with other stores on the same street, but some were marked for Colonial's customers.
And this really isn't a store-heavy area either.
There are several Vietnamese restaurants in that row. Restaurants eat up parking spaces.
-- Tony Cooper - Orlando FL
2014-04-14-
