Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whether the approach is negative or not can be debated. Certainly, every time I have been inside B&H in recent years (most recently last October), the number of people in the store and the lines at the cash register indicated that B&H is doing just fine. The breath of the offerings on their web site and the quality of the service I have received over the years indicate likewise. I don't know if this makes my opinion of B&H more or less relevant (I think not), but FWIW, I have a PhD in economics... Nathan Marc James Small wrote: > I can go into any store in Roanoke and shop from the shelves. I almost > certainly can do this in New York with the apparent exception of B&H, now > that the last Automat is done to death. If B&H wishes to double its > workforce costs while not improving its performance, that is there > decision: and a real journalist would want to know more about this and to > write a driving article about why a successful company adopts a most > decidedly negative retail approach. > > Seriously, BD. You MUST know some folks who can read or write, and some of > them MUST know an econ professor of some ability: ask him or her about the > fiscal benefit of the "basket system" and I believe that you will see what > I mean, that it is a fine answer to the needs of the Art Deco era. > > Marc > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com