[rollei_list] Re: Ritz Camera in Chapter 11

Ritz charged me $11 for a roll of 120 develop only, Walmart charge $2:80.  When 
your looking at forty rolls from your summer road trip:-it was an easy call. I 
wish them well and hope they can get some one in with some business sense. 
All the best
Larry Cuffe
On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, at 12:02AM, "Marc James Small" 
<marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Ritz Camera, a chain of photo stores prominent in 
>the middle Atlantic states, filed for Chapter 11 
>protection today.  They cited as the primary 
>reason the failure of their film-processing 
>business.  Oddly, the Ewald-Clark chain in 
>Roanoke sold out to Ritz in 1999 after realizing 
>that its own film-processing business was in the 
>tank.  Ritz, though, seems to have come up 
>against the non-photo store threat:  most folks 
>having film processed today do so at Wal-Mart, 
>Walgreens, CVS, Rite-Aid, and the like.  I can 
>get a roll of miniature-format film run by 
>Walgreens for $5 including 4" by 6" prints (17, 
>547, 212 KiloKelvins, for the metric guys in our 
>midst and, yes, I grin!)  Hell, it is hardly 
>worth my while to resurrect the chemical darkroom 
>save for the control it allows me.
>
>I hope Ritz gets out of its doldrums they were a 
>fair player in a lot of ways, though, again, they 
>screwed up when it came to selling gear, always 
>starting low and working up, where they should 
>have started at the high end and worked down.
>
>So be it.
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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