Re: B&H puts another local camera store out of business (with my help, unfortunately)

Oliver Costich wrote:

> The real culprit in the demise of the local photo store is Ritz in its
> various guises. In south Florida, where there millions of people,
> there are about 4 real photo stores and all are more than 25 miles
> away (far north or south), if you exclude the Ritz/Wolf ones.

Not really.  It's all about the bottom line.  If a store on the internet
or
local has the best price on items I want they get my money.  It's very
hard
for local (in state) stores to compete with on-line merchants since the
fact
that one can order on-line and not pay any sales tax.   In most cases, the
savings alone from this is the dealmaker.  And my local store is great,
but
they usually don't have the items I want when I want them.  Of course,
they
could order them, but why when I could do the same and have the item
sitting
in my hands the next business day?  Local shops are a thing of the past.







Rita