March 23, 2011: The price war being fought out by Big W and Harvey Norman on their online photo retailing websites intensified last week when… Read more
Posts published in “Opinion”
The war of attrition
Great deals come at a big price
February 25, 2011: The bells tolled for Borders and Angus & Robertson this week, and the experts were quick to explain why this was inevitable.… Read more
BEST OF THE REST: New consumer laws
February 11, 2011: A selection from last week`s stories from other online sources which may be of interest to Photo Counter readers… The Best of… Read more
Pentax, Ricoh buck local pricing trends
February 1, 2010: One of the regular observations in stories, readers comments and even editorials relating to the ‘Retail Coalition’ campaign for GST on private… Read more
Playing with the figures
January 4, 2011: It was interesting to see Canon come out swinging in defence of its leadership in the digital camera market just prior to… Read more
Consumer furore over Myer, Harvey offshore plans
December 8, 2010: The Myer announcement (or more correctly, bluff) flagging its intention to open an online store with goods shipped from a warehouse in… Read more
Harvey’s ‘unfair advantage’ losing its gloss?
November 24, 2010: Some readers will be bemused by Gerry Harvey’s complaints of Australian retailers being subject to ‘unfair disadvantage’ due to GST-free sales from… Read more
What’s the difference? Heaps!
September 22, 2101: The influx of so many new camera models in the space of a couple of weeks has prompted us to look at… Read more
Beefed-up broadband spells broad changes
August 11, 2010: Regular correspondent Alan Small (Taree Camera House), looks at the implications at retail of the beefed up broadband network on the political… Read more
Use NZ tax hike to lift margins
The looming sales tax hike in New Zealand could be an opportunity to build margin back into photo retail products, argues First Retail’s Chris Wilkinson:… Read more
