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I just returned from our new Target Superstore
[with a photo association? with Fuji].

Asked where the slide film is - the clerk said: Slide film? I don't know what slide film is - I'm into digital.:eek:
 
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Actually, the only reason I went there is due to a new business connection with Target I read about on the FUJI USA website. I'm interested in trying Fuji's Astia and was hopeing Target might at least have a roll of Sensia cooking on the rack amongst all the disposable print film cameras. Nope.

I'll have to go to a Pro lab Monday and rummage through their refrigerator.

I've shot thousands of rolls of slide film for various publications when I was a wage slave (pre-stroke) but to find someone who didn't even know what 'slide film' is - OMG, that was too much! I'm still playing his reply over in my head.:D

Now I've got to deal with 'poopy diaper smell'... :rolleyes:
 
Go easy on Target, my friends. They're way better than Wal-Mart. They don't censor CD lyrics, and they don't pretend to be pro-American while forcing prices so low that only Chinese products can compete, and they may not be as bad about refusing to pay medical claims for their employees.
 
My closest Henrys camera chain store went from having a 4by8 foot wall shelf unit and two large film refrigerators, to a puny shelf and a single small wine-cooler/bar frig. They can order film from their Toronto store within 3 days though.
 
bubba got a P said:
I just returned from our new Target Superstore
[with a photo association? with Fuji].

Asked where the slide film is - the clerk said: Slide film? I don't know what slide film is - I'm into digital.:eek:
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Welcome to reality Bubba!....and welcome to the forum where us ol film geezers can reminisce the good old days.;)
 
Target's OK. I avoid Kmarts and WalMarts like the plague they are.

Went to a railroad group meeting last night -- half the presentations were digital, and half were carousels of slides (and one guy brought some vintage 8mm film).

The ProShow presentations, some of them using photos dating back decades, were smooth with nice background sound and bright, well-focused images. The slide programs were pretty raw (one-projector shows) and kind of seasick inducing.

Even for slide dinosaurs like myself, digital presentation has a lot to recommend it. I can get the film I want from local photo shops or by mail order.
 
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crawdiddy said:
Go easy on Target, my friends. They're way better than Wal-Mart. They don't censor CD lyrics, and they don't pretend to be pro-American while forcing prices so low that only Chinese products can compete, and they may not be as bad about refusing to pay medical claims for their employees.
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True but they still sell yuppie crap!
 
Bill the next time you get to Wilson you need to drive to Raleigh & walk in Peace Camera. You'll think you died & gone to heaven. Film! Film! from all over the world. Cameras from days gone by. enough to give an ol man wet dreams!
 
crawdiddy said:
Go easy on Target, my friends. They're way better than Wal-Mart. They don't censor CD lyrics, and they don't pretend to be pro-American while forcing prices so low that only Chinese products can compete, and they may not be as bad about refusing to pay medical claims for their employees.
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Here here! :)

Actually, around here anyway, the newer Target' stores are quite nice.

Most of the time for the past year or so, Target' has the lowest prices on Fuji roll film, even cheaper than the Walgreens/Fuji rebranded stuff when it's not on sale. Very frequently they have some kind of a special going, such as buy four, get one free, or one roll of 36 in a 4-pack of 24.

They haven't stocked slide film of any brand for years, however.

Target is a chain of discount stores that predate Wal-Mart, and are about 1 notch less poopy-diaper-smelling.
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Around here they are several notches above Wally World and have much classier stores.

We almost endearingly pronounce the name with a faux accent aigu, Tar-jhay. :) :) :)

Everything costs 1 dollar more than it does in Wal-Mart, ergo, the parking lot generally does not have 11,000 quarts of oil on it from leaky rusted out old Chevys.
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Yes, Wally World usually beats Target' on price, but not always. I've been avoiding them lately because they are inconvenient for me, crowded, zooey, and, yes, socially irresponsible. They try to come off as uber-patriotic, but they treat their employees like sh*t and use their corporate muscle to ramrod their stores into neighborhoods against the wishes of the residents.

In all fairness, Target' has caught their share of flak around here when last year around the holidays they did not allow Salvation Army bellringers to camp out at their entrances.

As with Wally World, Target's employees may or may not know anything about what they are selling. That's why you get the roll of Fuji for $2 and change at Target' and the same roll for $5 and change at the real camera shop. Also, Target doesn't stock as much as Wally World or K-mart. Last summer I tried to find that replacement plastic string stuff for a weed-whacker at Target. I looked all over, and asked, and they sent me to K-mart! No, I am not kidding!
 
leicasniper said:
I was a little surprised to walk into a Walgreens the other day and see a little 3x3 foot area with only some house brand color print film hanging there. Film is disappearing from consumer outlets faster than I really expected, and I didn't expect it to be there long. Time marches on.
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That's exactly what happened here some years ago, first went B/W, then more expensive colour film an now we are down to no film or some short dated Fuji C200.
 
crawdiddy said:
Go easy on Target, my friends. They're way better than Wal-Mart. They don't censor CD lyrics, and they don't pretend to be pro-American while forcing prices so low that only Chinese products can compete, and they may not be as bad about refusing to pay medical claims for their employees.
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Wot?? D'you mean they put stickers on the CD case so's you can't see anything your nana wouldn't like, or is there something else going on?
 
Just the other day I went into a Ritz Camera to stock up on their 200 ASA 36 ex. film...
They didn't have any and I asked when they would be getting more...she said that the main office sends them their supplies and they aren't sending them anymore...I asked why and she replied..."Nobody shoots film anymore...
I said, "I shoot film...does that make me a nobody???"
By the way they had plenty of 12 and 24 exposure rolls...
 
nikon_sam said:
Just the other day I went into a Ritz Camera to stock up on their 200 ASA 36 ex. film...
They didn't have any and I asked when they would be getting more...she said that the main office sends them their supplies and they aren't sending them anymore...I asked why and she replied..."Nobody shoots film anymore...
I said, "I shoot film...does that make me a nobody???"
By the way they had plenty of 12 and 24 exposure rolls...
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Funny, the big Ritz store here in town stocks mostly 36 exposure rolls of film. Guess you'll have to drive over our way to get some.
 
Complain all you want. The stores are in business to make money. If no one buys it, they won't stock it. Retail shelf space is just too valuable. There will be plenty of film available in specialty stores or the last bastion of film, online. Just shop where it is carried and save the complaining for something worthwhile - like how bad the M8 is. :)

/Ira
 
Plenty of film still to be had in India -- but heaven help you if you want any kind other than colour negative.
 
M. Valdemar said:
Would you expect a young clerk in Target to know what an Edison Cylinder was?
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No, but....

- slide film is still being made and it's not exactly an obscure and antique technology

- He's working in the photo department and unless his training was substandard he must have fallen asleep during that part.

- Even if he really didn't know what slide film was (which I doubt), he shouldn't give a smarta** answer to a customer and instead should have said something along the lines of: "Sorry, sir, I'm not familiar with that item, let me check with the manager."
 
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