Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
i see that jessops the camera type shop[s] have gone into administration.looks dire to its customors.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
this is what brian refers to looks like the specialist camera shops are on the way out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20958659Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
#3
What a pity, I used them for my photographic equipment & found them excellent.
Watty
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
thats the one,shame to see it go like that.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
- Posts: 458
#5
I used to work for Jessops at thier home branch in Leicester, that was when I had dark long hair and all my own teeth! The photographic market has changed beyond all reason, it is no longer about cameras/lenses/gadget bags etc.It's PC's, printers, inks and papers and so on. I wonder how many of us have(and use) a digital slr? Not many, it's compacts, phones now. Jessops was doomed years ago, it went cheap, and became a photographic supermarket, stack em high,sell em cheap!
Canterbury cameras must be rubbing thier in glee,now the only camera shop in town!
Sorry to see them go, but I can't remember when I last used them, I shop on line and use shops like Grays of Westminster for all my photographic needs. For what it's worth in another life I have mamaged camera shops in central London, Leicester and Bath. At least Frank Jessop and Stanley Kharms have made a bob or two out of it!
Guest 761- Registered: 10 Jul 2012
- Posts: 115
#6
Ouch!... From my Brother in Manchester - not the local branch!
