Yes, the Jessops share price took a bit of a nose dive recently folowing the press release indicating sales well below forecast since the xmas period. I think these new offers and a few more to come are efforts to get those sales back on track.
I know from some recent company info that whilst there's well over 300 stores now within the UK so far, and still plans for new ones opening, The new Cardiff 'World camera centre' (the larger format city store types like those in Leicester, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London etc) does still indicate Jessops as a company is healthy and continuing to grow.
The company do have their fingers in several pies, other things like the recent Tecno takeover branching into other electronics markets, does perhaps indicate a taster of things to come.
It's certainly not all doom and gloom just yet.
It's just a shame my surname isn't Jessop.....I don't think I'd need to save up for any new DSLR's if it were!!!
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