Comments on: Taking Pictures Inside Stores... What Are They Afraid Of?

By: personface

personface — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:02:07 +0000

theres a group on facebook about this

By: White Castle, solicitors and forbidden picture taking « Email Marketing Guy

White Castle, solicitors and forbidden picture taking « Email Marketing Guy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:09:39 +0000

[...] Greg Bulmash did a good piece on this via Brain Handles. Find it here. [...]

By: BubbleSort

BubbleSort — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:36:57 +0000

According to an evening news show I saw once, one of the things they are trying to protect is their "Format". The layout of the merchandise. The distance between the shelves. Etc...

According to this show many of these store spend a lot of time and money researching formats that promote more sales. For example having impulse buy items near the checkout. Or having sales items just inside the door.

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:57:02 +0000

TofuForBrains, what's wrong with the comparison shoppers coming through your store and recording prices? It's smart business for them, and if you weren't comparison shopping them, that would have been stupid of you. When I was a TV salesman at Circuit City in '95, we comparison shopped the competition, and they comparison shopped us. With the salesmen at Good Guys and Fry's Electronics, we had a gentleman's agreement and didn't hassle each other. We'd just give each other a nod and a wave and try not to be too obvious about it. But Best Buy always tried to be jerks about it. It didn't stop us from getting the prices. It just made us be sneakier. And what has it done for Best Buy? They've gotten bad press almost every year because they end up mistreating some average shopper and in general, the public considers that blue Best Buy uniform shirt to be a big sign flashing "I'm an idiot."

By: TofuForBrains

TofuForBrains — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:28:29 +0000

When I worked for a large computer hardware and software retailer, we had problems with the comparison shoppers from our competitors. Twice in a one year period we caught people walking through the aisles with video cameras hidden in their shoulder bags, with a hole in the bag for the camera lens.

By: Dan Gray

Dan Gray — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:51:26 +0000

Hey Greg, thanks ... great post and a fantastic photo of your son!

I have to say, I felt really weird when the produce guy told me to stop taking photos ... I had only taken one shot with my Digital Rebel ... maybe not the right camera for the job ... if I had a tiny pocket sized camera, rather than a SLR, I might not have drawn any attention.

Now I suppose I'll just have to wait for the takedown notice ...