Jessops

[ewx]

I did wonder what the logic behind having two branches practically round the corner from one another in Cambridge was.

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[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

I think the one on Bridge Street used to be another photography retailer (Techno? Something like that) which Jessops took over. Why they didn't shut one of the two branches at that stage, I don't know...

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Possibly. They bought Techno a while back. There may have been a no-redundancies-for-N-months deal which is now up...

[armb.livejournal.com]

Tecno, I think. Bought 2000-ish.
They are now reusing the name: http://www.tecno.co.uk

[ewx.livejournal.com]

That leads me to this report (http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=81284) which indicates expansion from 70 to 300 stores in about a decade, which is fast enough to make me think we're seeing the results of over-expansion here: growing on the back of a boom in digital photography is all very well, but apart from the upgrade treadmill it strikes me as a market which needs less high street presence than film photography (because of the shift to online photo albums) rather than more.

[james-r.livejournal.com]

They seem to sell different stuff in each one. Presumably they don't have enough storage / display space in each one for all their product range.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Neither ever struck me as being very densely packed (not that I've been in there a while) so I'd have thought they could fit a wider range into each if they'd had to.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

I hope it's the Bridge Street one rather than the Green Street one that's closing, but I suspect it won't be.