Tag: Specialty
IPI Strategies for Success–Image Is Everything!
What is the image you are portraying to your customers when they visit your store or your website, and does that image keep them...
Creative Connections: The Phone, the Imaging Retailer and the Next Generation
Consumers are taking more photos and weaving photography into more aspects of their lives than ever before. That’s great news for the photo industry,...
PIR June/July Tech Trends: Photo Print Product vs. Camera Spending among...
In the photo specialty channel, consumers under age 35, as a proportion of total photo print product revenue, are in line with total retail...
Photo Specialty Pioneer Edward C. Ritz Passes
Beltsville, MD—Edward C. Ritz, a photo specialty retail pioneer and a cofounder of Ritz Camera, died on March 30. Family-owned Ritz Camera Centers (the...
Photo Specialty Dealers Have Older, More Affluent Customers
According to The NPD Group’s Consumer Tracking Service, the photo specialty channel has both an older and a more affluent consumer. When we consider...
Tech Trends: Choosing Print Channels
The overall incidence of printing any type of digital camera image out at photo specialty retailers was 8% according to The NPD Group’s...
Shop Talk: Stewart Henderson, Vice President of Marketing for Samsung Opto-Electronics...
“We’ve just hired a dedicated sales staff, a four-man team, to call on the specialty channel. Their goal is to get the mindshare...
