Camera shops closing

Farmlife

Hello, i've been asked by a friend who's not a member of boards to ask if people know of large or local camera shop's in the Rep of Ireland that have closed in the last year or two. Also do you feel it was down to the economic downturn or due to the bigger stores stocking the mid to high end DSLR's,

He's doing some sort of report / project thing,
Thanks

Effects

And he's so lazy in his approach to this report/project that he can't be bothered to set up an account and ask himself?

Aarsie5

Effects wrote: »

And he's so lazy in his approach to this report/project that he can't be bothered to set up an account and ask himself?

+1

No harm setting up a quick survey on surveymonkey.com and gauging opinion that way.

Farmlife

he asked, i obliged. wouldn't worry too much about it if you haven't anything constructive to say.

Farmlife

Aarsie5 wrote: »

No harm setting up a quick survey on surveymonkey.com and gauging opinion that way.

Thanks for that i'll pass that on

Effects

rgugliel wrote: »

he asked, i obliged. wouldn't worry too much about it if you haven't anything constructive to say.

It was implied constructivism.

monkeysnapper

Ha ha, i was made redundant 3weeks ago when they closed the photoshop i managed, i was based in kerry, people are just not buying cameras from smaller shops, plus as for printing how can you do better than the online printers .

Farmlife

thanks for that

Uproar

Yes its such a shame that so many Camera shops have closed down. Its so much better to buy a camera shop coz the people who work there can give you much better advice then what you'd get in the likes of Argos ect.

I suppose camera shops lost out a bit when the digital cameras arrived coz people didn't need to buy film for their cameras anymore & people are able to print their own photos now, i wonder did that add to their loss of business?

Its a real shame to see them closing down....