After Calumet

[Tin Can]

I just got a FB post about the after Calumet actions.

All I have now is the FB group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/477998195655538/

This is one of the posts.

'The rest comes from Bill Skinner:

"Great News! I have a new job with CalPhoto US. We are currently working on opening multiple stores and will release details as they become available. Looking forward to working with Chicagoland photographers again!"'

[Tin Can]

I got in trouble over there on FB, seems they want pity...

I pity the employees not management. Been there, lost my job too.

[r_a_feldman]

Calumet has been acquired by C&A Marketing and has reopened a store in Oak Brook Illinois. More information is at http://www.dpreview.com/news/2014/05...ref=title_0_11.

Bob

[Richard Wasserman]

I wouldn't get my hopes up, C&A owns some interesting companies— http://camarketing.com/brands/

[Andrew O'Neill]

So, they own Polaroid and sell expired Polroid as well as IP film?

[Richard Wasserman]

And Ritz Camera and jumbl...

[Tin Can]

Calumet?

Who's that?

[Richard Wasserman]

Calumet hasn't been the Calumet of memory for quite a while, I'm afraid they're gone forever.

[John Kasaian]

So what drove the last nail into Calumet's coffin? I'd suspect the internet. Having stores in many major cities for commercial photographers---a Denny's for photographers who get paid if you will, seems like a sound niche. Since Calumet sold digital stuff I wouldn't pin the rap on film.

[Tin Can]

They also never had a good website with accurate inventory. Even in store at Goose Island, they never knew what they had in the back on computer, so it would be 20 minutes while they searched the warehouse.

So what drove the last nail into Calumet's coffin? I'd suspect the internet. Having stores in many major cities for commercial photographers---a Denny's for photographers who get paid if you will, seems like a sound niche. Since Calumet sold digital stuff I wouldn't pin the rap on film.