What Happened To All The Ritz Camera Stores

Ritz Camera Chronicles, Stories From America's Biggest Camera Store

Fstoppers wouldn't exist without Ritz Photographic camera. Patrick and I met each other working in that location thirteen years agone. But, as many of yous know, Ritz Camera went bankrupt, and we know why.

In this series, Patrick and I tell hilarious stories from our by life as Ritz Photographic camera sales associates and print technicians. In many ways, working at Ritz camera was like the TV show The Office; everyone in a position of power seemed wildly incompetent, and the decisions they made led to the downfall of the company.

I'm not going to summarize this entire video but in that location are a few details I would like to add. Firstly, I probably come off equally an absolutely horrible employee simply I did take my task seriously. I was never belatedly, I never called in sick, and I always went in a higher place and beyond to aid customers. That being said, when we were asked to do jobs that were obviously pointless, I wasn't the first to volunteer. In my initial story about moving the outdated Playstation one games into the front showcase, I failed to mention that the next calendar month our district managing director made us movement everything back considering obviously, it was a horrible decision. If we had left the games exactly where they were, our district manager wouldn't accept remembered when he returned the next calendar month, and we would accept saved ourselves hours of time and annoyance. During the years that I worked at Ritz, I never once saw a single Playstation game sold, even while they were beingness presented in our front showcase.

When our printer finally bankrupt, and our manager decided to spend her ain money to transfer negatives and prints to and from another store in town, I failed to mention even the customers didn't appreciate her attempt. Film was getting lost, prints were never ready in time (call back nosotros had a 1-hour print policy), and if a print turned out poorly, we didn't have a printer in the shop to easily gear up the event. Our district manager told our manager non to exercise it, our customers were not happy with this service, and our manager incessantly complained about the time and money it took to do it, but she connected. When orders weren't prepare on time customers would routinely say "Why didn't you just tell me to become to the other store."

The demise of Ritz became apparent when our district and shop managers began telling us to "cook the books" by ringing up prints every bit other items in the store that paid college committee rates. By doing this it may have appeared that we had tons of new customers signing upwardly for Ritz Pix memberships, but in reality, nobody was.

This is the commencement episode of Ritz Camera Chronicles. We have at to the lowest degree 4 more storytelling episodes left in our serial. Make sure yous subscribe to our Youtube Channel to catch the adjacent episode tomorrow.

For this video we recorded audio with the Rode Broadcaster mics piped into the Rodecaster Pro. Obviously, we need some popular filters, only I was actually impressed with the audio quality out of this arrangement. If you're looking to film a podcast mode prove, this is by far the easiest setup I have always seen.

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