There is one place in my area, a store in Kansas City, only about 3 hours
from my home, that has Oly. The last time a store had them here, was when
they screwed their dealers over on the OM10, and the taste left is so bad
that it remains today. Only place to see Nikons here is Best Buy, they had
them about ten minutes after they hit the shores in LA. Poor lens selection,
though. They are clueless, one store showed the D700 for sale with a DX
lens. A little like Decaf Coffee, no? Lots of Canons around, but good luck
with Canon wides.
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From: jfwilcox
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 12:52 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] A Double-take
At Costco in Honolulu (and Coralville, IA, for that matter) not an Olympus
to be seen. Nothing but Rebels and N thingies and little Fujis.
I guess when you fell a great tree, it still takes a long time to remove the
stump.
Joel W.
On Jan 2, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Last week we were over in Michigan visiting family and picking up my
> 4x5 color enlarger which has been in storage at my Dad's place. While
> going up through Muskegon, what do we see?
>
> A billboard for a local camera shop--advertising OLYMPUS!
>
> The next day, we pay a visit. There was a decent sized spread of
> Olympus m43 gear including the latest/greatest stuff. They even had a
> small handful of legacy 43 gear there too. All said and done, I'm
> going to say that they had close to a linear meter of display cabinet
> in use for Olympus. I haven't seen that much cabinet space devoted to
> Olympus since probably 1985.
>
> Granted, Nikon and Canon each had 3 meters or more of display area,
> but I was shocked and pleased.
>
> I talked to the owner and he said that Olympus has been selling very
> well this holiday season--a great success. However, he said (and the
> other camera store in town also confirmed with their own numbers) that
> the Digital Rebel accounted for over half of all cameras sold this
> season. It outsold all other brands combined!
>
> That puts an interesting perspective on success and relative success.
> I'm very happy for Olympus, but at the same time we need to
> acknowledge that somebody else is still winning. I asked about Nikon
> sales and an interesting comment was made about that. Turns out that
> the big box stores and general purpose retailers are where Nikon (and
> Sony) has made the most sales this holiday season. The dedicated
> camera stores' bread and butter remains Canon.
>
> --
> Ken Norton
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