Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A couple of items are in play. First, there are almost no independent camera shops any more; they are almost all chains that deal directly with the manufacturers so there is no reason to do any serious business at the convention. Second, with the demise of 4x6 prints most shops are in real cash flow deficit; books, calendars, slide show DVD's, or anything else is being tried but the numbers at this point are not quite there. Three, most consumer electronics are shown at the CE show which was just a few weeks earlier: see point one for big box stores. Last, the digital P&S market has pretty much spiraled into a commodity business where margins are not much and the churn is huge with dealers not stocking much inventory as if has been discontinued the value is almost zip. On Feb 4, 2008 1:53 PM, slobodan dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: > Well, PMA 2008 came and went, with nary a ripple. > Looking at the streaming images of the event, it looked like a morgue. > It doesn't bode well! > Slobodan Dimitrov > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com