In the era of people taking photos with their smartphone and then posting the results to Facebook or Instagram, camera stores were likely living on borrowed time. That was illustrated today when it was announced that Black’s Photo was shutting down. A total of 59 stores will be closing and just under 500 people will be out of work. Keep in mind that Telus bought them a few years ago to get a foothold in the retail space. But that clearly hasn’t worked out for them. This is sad because this chain has been around in Canada for decades and for someone of my age (no, I’m not telling you how old I am), they were one of the places that you went to get film developed. Yes kids, film. We didn’t always use memory cards to store pictures on.
Boy do I feel old.
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Black’s Photo Closing Down
In the era of people taking photos with their smartphone and then posting the results to Facebook or Instagram, camera stores were likely living on borrowed time. That was illustrated today when it was announced that Black’s Photo was shutting down. A total of 59 stores will be closing and just under 500 people will be out of work. Keep in mind that Telus bought them a few years ago to get a foothold in the retail space. But that clearly hasn’t worked out for them. This is sad because this chain has been around in Canada for decades and for someone of my age (no, I’m not telling you how old I am), they were one of the places that you went to get film developed. Yes kids, film. We didn’t always use memory cards to store pictures on.
Boy do I feel old.
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