Jessops 1935-
2013 11th January 4.30pm
I’m stood in Jessops Cheltenham
talking to one of the staff, a long standing employee. He’s telling me, I have
told about 150 people today that a lot of what you see in the press is not
right, you know what journalists are like, saying it’s a crisis, when in fact
there is no crisis, I try to go along with his rhetoric, at the same time
feeling deep down this is it, the ship is finally going down. Months of just
popping in the shop to find so little stock, a lack of frills approach to
selling on a once thriving high street, now a distant memory in the world of
one click purchase & being woken up the next morning by the postman with
your shop on line experience, nicely packaged for some pounds less. Years came
and went. In its hey day, a reliance we came to accept, Jessops will have it.
Then, as if it was the last frame on the film, a young sales assistant said, we
have to shut the shop, right now I’ve been told, that’s it.
Personally I would like to thank
all the staff at Jessops who over the years I always found to be polite and
helpful.
Andy Sharpe
