Now Jessops into admin

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After Comet, it is Jessops turn to go into admin. It is incredible how many of high street are being blighted these days.. One of the sad things I realised this xmas walking down my high street is that it is being taken over by pound shops or 'pop up' stores. Sad indeed.. guess Internet shopping is finally killing off the high street.. Online shopping crossed 1b this xmas for the first time..
 
I was thinking the same - there are so many business models that have become outdated or obsolete within a short space of time, and these businesses end up entering into very onerous lease conditions which makes it hard to survive a slow trading period on minimal margins.

It's such a shame for the 1,000s of people affected by it, but hopefully they'll keep as many staff going in the 'new' Jessops stores
 
I'd definitely be worried if I was into anything where there is no need to look at it before you buy (hmv/waterstones), especially given how quick things can be delivered nowadays!
 
I agree with the comment about Pound shops. Granted Bracknell has always been chavtastic and the talk of regenerating the town centre has rumbled on for the 20 odd years I've lived here and just gone from public enquiry to goverment review to another enquiry and on and on.

It is not full of cheap shops selling crap. The problem is with everything readily available on the web and cheaper there isn't a way of bucking the trend and stores are going to struggle until we are left with urban out of town retail parks and the net
 
gripitripit said:
With the cameras available on phones nowadays it was always on the cards..!
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Agreed I have a great spec DSLR but rarely use it as the camera phone does a good job for day to day stuff and is always on hand.

Only time the other comes out is for special occasions.

Jessops has been endangered since the digital age began, and then even disregarding phone cameras once you buy a digital camera these days they last for much longer than older cameras and you don't need to get pics developed either.

Plus far cheaper to buy online. A camera thats £1250 in Jessops is £750-£850 over the internet and thats for proper UK models not grey imports.
 
A lot of small town high streets up here are the same, Pound shops or charity shops.

The thing with the likes of Jessops and Comet is that they were responsible for high street specialist shops closing down.

I though Jessops were poor, I was looking for a camera 12 months ago and I was was looking at Models costing around £500, i had almost decided on the one I wanted and just asked the guy in Jessops to unlock the cabinet to let me have a look at another one before I finally bought and he couldnt be bothered to go and get the key to the cabinet. I went and bought my camera elsewhere!
 
Lots more high street chains will go under soon, online shopping including ebay for second hand shopping is becoming more and more the norm instead of driving into town and looking for what you want.

I actually make a point of going out to the shops to buy what I want unless I have no other option than to order online, simply because I like to feel what i'm buying in my hands to see the quality and get the insight of the sellers.

HMV will likely be under by June/July based on their figures reported they really can't go on much longer, especially now as most music if not more than 80% of the sales of it is done through downloads, similar to that of films which is going more and more to streaming. You could almost say Apples growth since the launch of the initial iPod has helped the demise of the likes of HMV as virtually everythings done through iTunes now.

on a brighter note as golfers the demise of Jessops and resulting stock clearance could be a blessing for those wanting a laser range finder on the cheap. That is as long as their liquidation sale is better than Comets was.

Also hasn't JJB gone out of business now and been gobbled up by Mike Ashleys crew. As for shops in the highstreet, try living in Medway where Chatham literally invented the CHAV (or as they are so proud of its full name Council House And Violent)
 
Feel a bit sorry for any of the employees that lose their jobs, but any dealings I had with them was frankly awful. Even the flagship pro centres in the major cities had at best one expert and a whole lot of spotty sales people who hadn't a clue.
 
Iaing said:
Feel a bit sorry for any of the employees that lose their jobs, but any dealings I had with them was frankly awful. Even the flagship pro centres in the major cities had at best one expert and a whole lot of spotty sales people who hadn't a clue.
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In my experience a whole host of shops are like that. Across the spectrum of retail most shops only have 1 or 2 people that you can actually hold a converstaion with - the rest grunt or shrug.
Is it any wonder people shop online.......
 
Imurg said:
In my experience a whole host of shops are like that. Across the spectrum of retail most shops only have 1 or 2 people that you can actually hold a converstaion with - the rest grunt or shrug.
Is it any wonder people shop online.......
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Unfortunately in our rush to get products on the cheap retail have been forced to drive down wages so has to compete with on line shopping resulting in a loss of expertise. Was always likely to end like this.
 
gone the same way as KODAK they never grasped that the art of taking a decent photo was in everyone's pocket and if you didn't like it you deleted it and took another,the days of these older more traditional stores are all going to go against the wall but saying that cobblers are doing a roaring trade as people would sooner get shoes repair rather than buy new ones.
 
I can remember when Jessops was a 'proper' photography retailer based in Leicester... People would travel from all four corners for their expertise in the market... That was, of course, before t'internet...
 
I remember walking into Jessops last year to buy kit worth over 1K... they were quoting atleast 30% over Internet prices. I was more keen to buy from a real bloke than off the web, if the price was right. Credit where it is due, the guy knew what he was talking about and was not yet another gel-ed hair bum fluff part time estate agent type. After a bit of a conversation, he matched the net price and got my custom.

I feel for the guys who work at the sharp end. Now our high streets has just one photography shop left. - Harpers, which seems to be staffed with guys nearing their bus pass but who know everything there is to know about cameras, lens et al... dont know if they make any money though..
 
Iaing said:
Feel a bit sorry for any of the employees that lose their jobs, but any dealings I had with them was frankly awful. Even the flagship pro centres in the major cities had at best one expert and a whole lot of spotty sales people who hadn't a clue.
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Yet so many people are happy to get the information we want from the net or forums. Not a great deal better than some of the spotty oiks. Affordability is the key to all of these shops going to the wall. I wanted to buy a new telephoto lens for my camera, on the highstreet (not Jessops) it was £1200, on the net it was £800, brand new on ebay for the exact same lens was £400 brand new and £200 second hand. I saved a grand buying a second hand lens with little use, there wasn't a mark on it when it arrived not even a fingerprint, and there is no way I would have afforded to pay £1200 for it.
 
louise_a said:
The thing with the likes of Jessops and Comet is that they were responsible for high street specialist shops closing down.

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doublebogey7 said:
Unfortunately in our rush to get products on the cheap retail have been forced to drive down wages so has to compete with on line shopping resulting in a loss of expertise. Was always likely to end like this.
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Both very true , but lets be honest here as retailers we have let/caused this to happen , we want the best of stuff at the cheapest price , retailers have to cut costs so quality of the service loses out ,

big stores killed the specialist small shops , on line is doing the same to the big retailer now .. economics i guess
 
Online shopping isn't the problem in my eyes, I come from an e commerce background and it has as many pros as it does conns. I honestly think eBay is the issue here, so much stuff sold through eBay in many market sectors is below cost which is great for the buyer but hard cheese for the retailer.

Customers bang a item in eBay , if its 40.00 that's deemed the actual price , not the srrp of say £80. Stores are forced to dump at stock clearance prices just to move their stock and turn it back into cash before its outdated. eBay has killed many online business's but unfortunately it's now the biggest global market place.
 
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