Even though photo kiosks have been around for a decade or more, systems for transferring image files from a customer’s smartphone or device to a… Read more
Posts published in “Retail”
No easy fix for smartphone printing (yet)
Ebay touts for pre-Amazon business
There’s been a lot of often hyperventilated discussion about how local retailers should prepare for the coming of The Grim Reaper Amazon Australia. So it… Read more
Minilab tax depreciation schedule
Phil Gresham (Fotofast, Taringa) has kindly passed on a new schedule of depreciation for equipment used in photo processing businesses. This was in turn supplied… Read more
Canon shares vision for growth
The latest issue of Photo Imaging News International (May, 2017) reported on the Business Forum Imaging, Cologne, March 1-2 (or as we prefer to… Read more
The ‘Amazon Stomp’
We warmly thank Larry Steiner, Spectrum Photo & Digital Services, Ohio, for this ‘reality check’ on the likely impact of Amazon’s arrival as a direct retail… Read more
Rumours of retail’s ‘Death by Amazon’ exaggerated
After months of teasing, Amazon will reportedly ‘greatly expand’ its online offer in Australia over the next year. The move has been predicted to ‘decimate… Read more
Getting sale prices right
When you walk through an Australian mall you are bombarded with signs saying ‘buy one, get one free’ and ’70 percent off’, and shops seem… Read more
2017 shaping well, say retailers
In February, we asked a range of retailers how they traded through Christmas, their views on 2017, and where sales might come from this year,… Read more
Scoping the market
The niche markets of telescopes and binoculars aren’t supported by all photo specialists, but according to Twin City Camera House (which also trades as Adelaide… Read more
Ringfoto: Marching forward despite industry trends
At the recent Photokina in Cologne, Australia’s John Swainston spoke to Rainer Schortt, the chairman of the Supervisory Board of European Photo retail Giant, Ringfoto.… Read more