New Henry's Outlet store very "sterile"

Unfortunately, it's just another Henry's, with sparse stock. The old
Outlet store was well-suited to its task, to attract real photo
enthusiasts. It was small, dimly lit, cluttered, and most
importantly, located in Toronto downtown, the hotbed for photo
enthusiasts, students, etc. In short, a perfect enthusiast's store.
It got in a fair bit of good open box and used equipment, the newest
digital stuff would show up as customers switched brands or choices in
the main store around the corner. It was always busy.
So, for whatever reason (rumours were cost of the real estate and that
it was siphoning off customers from the main store around the corner
from it) they decided to move it to Mississauga, a kind of far-flung
"suburb" of Toronto populated by mostly younger professionals and
poorer immigrants, not exactly the core of photo-enthusiastdom.
Now, the new store is again in fairly close (4km or so) proximity to
a pre-existing standard Henry's store (and a Vistek) and it is not
what it was. The new store is 2.5x larger (therefore the cluttered
look is gone, to the extent the place looks sparse. The store is
heavily lit with large glass shrouded lamps and for all intents and
purposes is just another Henry's. The staff is secured behind a
phalanx of new store-spanning counter-barriers so there isn't much
chance of the interaction that happened in the old store. The stock
on the backshelves is further back requiring you ask to see things up
close, with no chance for actually getting a good idea about a product
from just looking. There is counter storage for lenses and that
should work out ok, once the stuff is properly merchandised.
The new store is supposed to get new stock in addition to old stock,
further diluting what it once was, while most high quality new stock
most likely will end up on Henry's Ebay site.
IMO, Downtown Camera (if they were so inclined) could fill the niche,
jettisoning their film section (which I never see anyone frequent) for
a more robust "used" section. Why should Henry's be the only one to
make the 40-1000% margins (I kid you not) that used product brings?

 

Bitch, whine, bitch, whine.

Same old, same old.

 

Reactionary posting, and unoriginal. Same as always from you.

 

When did Mississauga become poorer than Toronto?

Mississauga has 800 000 people now and has a household income that has
exceeded that of Toronto's for the past 25 years. And poor immigrants?
Isn't 20% of Toronto's population below the poverty line while only 9% of
Mississauga is below the poverty line? You need to read up on the 2006
Canadian census for you seem to have some very wrong ideas about Toronto and
Mississauga. And Mississauga is a far flung suburb of Toronto? Holy
shit what do you consider Newmarket, Bomanville or Georgetown? Do you
consider them other provinces? Mississauga has more fortune 500 and fortune
100 companies based there than Toronto does.

You are telling us that Canada's 6th largest city does not have a base to
support a camera store?

 

You also need to learn what a paragraph is......

 

Who said it was?

 

You need to learn how to read English.

 

:
: > > So, for whatever reason (rumours were cost of the real estate and that
: > > it was siphoning off customers from the main store around the corner
: > > from it) they decided to move it to Mississauga, a kind of far-flung
: > > "suburb" of Toronto populated by mostly younger professionals and
: > > poorer immigrants, not exactly the core of photo-enthusiastdom.
: >
: > When did Mississauga become poorer than Toronto?
:
: Who said it was?

That response may miss the point. My impression is that in many countries of
the world, you're more likely to see middle-class people walking the streets
with cameras than you do in the US or Canada. It's not inconceivable that an
immigrant family on the way up may be a good candidate for upgrading to
somewhat better equipment than you might find in the average big-box store.
Possibly Henry's Mississauga store will be more successful than you think.

Bob

 

Just like your ceaseless whines.

 

"RichA" thinks that a "paragraph" is two graphs.

 

Paragraph is a greek word, from para (moved a little along) and graph, from
grapho to write. So, you write a little sideways to the right.

 

And euthanasia refers to young Chinese