Well, when you buy container loads of anything you get good deals. You do not have to be Target to do that. But you do have to have some idea of how you are going to sell all that merchandise.
--graywolf Mark Roberts wrote: > Digital Image Studio wrote: > >> I agree with what you say in principle but I think that a lot has to >> be blamed on the preferential treatments that larger retailers receive >>from distributors. I recall some years ago when I ran my own business >> often big box retailers would have pallets of product (on consignment) >> when for the remainder of us there was no stock available and then >> without the advantage of delayed payments. > > My friend who owned the now-defunct camera shop where I worked is > currently a department manager at a Target store. After seeing how the > whole operation works, his observation is that his camera shop "never > stood a fscking chance". The big box chains can buy in enormous volume, > and benefit from the economy of scale. But, thanks to the capabilities > of network-accessible databases and a highly-organized inventory > system, the individual stores can order and stock a bare minimum of > items. If they only sell one Rebel-D (for example) a week, they'll just > keep one on the shelf. When it sells, they make a request to the mother > ship and have a replacement usually the next day. > > To the retailer, this is the best of both worlds. > > Of course, the consumer still gets to deal with a salesdroid who > doesn't know his aperture from a hole in the ground... > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
