{"id":549,"date":"2009-08-24T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=549"},"modified":"2017-08-30T00:44:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T04:44:57","slug":"ritz-camera-100-columbiana-circle-suite-102-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Ritz Camera, 100 Columbiana Circle Suite 102: July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/harb_ritz02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/harb_ritz02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/harb_ritz03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/08\/harb_ritz03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another casualty of the <i>Ritz Camera<\/i> chain's downsizing.  Previously I wrote about the store on <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=385\">Two Notch Road<\/a> which closed earlier this summer, and was hoping the other stores were safe.  Unfortunately the trend seems to be continuing with this, the Harbison area store, closing while I was on vacation in July.<\/p>\n<p>My observations of the Beltline store makes it seem to me that <i>Ritz<\/i> has almost totally ditched film photography for digital.  I found that the last time I was in there and needed a roll of 35mm, they had a smaller selection than either <i>Wal-Mart<\/i> or <i>Walgreen's<\/i>.  I'm sure this is a deliberate stragegy, and obviously digital is where the market is and where it will be.  On the other hand, when you go to an actual \"camera\" store, you expect some more obscure items than you can find at the corner drugstore, so I'm not sure the strategy isn't a mixed blessing during this final film\/digital period of transition.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 30 August 2017<\/b> -- Still vacant 8 years later:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1450305.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1450305_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450305_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450305_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another casualty of the Ritz Camera chain's downsizing. Previously I wrote about the store on Two Notch Road which closed earlier this summer, and was hoping the other stores were safe. Unfortunately the trend seems to be continuing with this, the Harbison area store, closing while I was on vacation in July. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2245,462,768,491,188,263,4],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-100-columbiana-circle","tag-cameras","tag-columbiana-circle","tag-columbiana-drive","tag-harbison","tag-photography","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}