Jessops in trouble?

After Jacobs, this...

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Three Jessops stores in Oxford (pop 180,000), all identical and not a Pentax in sight (almost exclusively Canikon and Sony). One store with a wide range of camera manufacturers might have been more successful.

Small wonder that this once fantastic company are now in trouble.

Another one going down the pan then

Jessops leaving the high street would be a huge, huge shame. I just think they have too many shops with too many staff in too many high streets. If I was in charge, I would retain a few of the larger 'flagship' stores in strategic regional locations, and take the rest of the business online.

Times are a changin. Instead of a Jessops on every major high street there is now an Apple franchise. Shitty for the staff as they try hard, I think the chain itself has lost a lot of face in the serious amateur community rather than the staff.

I wonder though, I should imagine that this will hurt Canon and Nikon a lot more than Pentax. Much more stock exposure. Jessops lists Pentax on its website but I never see any stock in store.

Jessops Cambridge has stocked Pentax for quite a while now. It does not help when smartphones are largely replacing P&S cameras. I think Pentaxophile's comments are spot; perhaps that is what might come out of this.

Dave

I only chose to become a Pentax user because of Jessops! I think I got the last K7 they had in the Croydon shop and there's not been any more seen since. It was only because the camera was there to hold and try out that my mind was made up so quickly - I knew nothing of Pentax DSLRs before that, only that Pentax was a good long standing camera name.

I would never have chosen the Pentax on Amazon on written specs alone, although for the price these would have still have lept out at me. Too many people trying out cameras in the shops then buying online no doubt plays a part in this.

But now as a Pentax owner I have stopped going in to the numerous Jessops I pass regularly - its just dispiriting.

Our Chesterfield Jessop's refuses to admit Pentax exist. The rot set in when they stopped selling second hand and put touch screen photo machines in.

Our local Chemist Dents were a Pentax dealer but they blamed poor quality of compacts having to be returned for packing in. All they sell are wedding photography (terrible example albums), bags, photo frames and more processing.

Our LCE have had the X5 and seen their first Pentax rep for years. Still no DSLRs though.

Our Currys/PC World is a bigger joke than Dixons was when on our High St. No Pentax cameras currently. When they had a KR I asked when the new K30 would be in stock. 'When we sell this one' was the reply!!!

We have no other camera shops unless you count our Thursday Flea Market.

Thay have gone into administration.

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Good riddance to them!
apart from one or two branches, Leicester being one of them, they're useless.

THEY GOT TOO GREEDY, BOUGHT UP EVERY OTHER CAMERA SHOP IN THE HIGH STREET AND ARE NOW PAYING THE PRICE.

I for one will NOT miss them.

I think its a shame and one less outlet for me to shop at

As they are not accepting gift vouchers don't forget if you bought with debit or credit card you may be able to claim the cost back under chargeback!

Dont you feel any sympathy for the staff who will lose their jobs?

Yep, looks like Jessops is going too. Hardly surprising given that they had no more knowledge of cameras than the staff in Tesco yet demand premium prices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20958659