There was a time when only a few had access to the cameras and only the specialized stores sold them, today the cameras and SLR have become democratized, their prices have dropped, they are within reach of many more people and, as a result, you can buy a camera at the same time as you make weekly purchases in your usual hypermarket. While drinking potatoes and fish, you enjoy and buy the camera.
Just as you ask the employee of the fish fishing section about takeaway fish, you go to the section where many SLR cameras are exposed and ask the uniformed employee you see.
- You think you live in an ideal world.
- That everything is armed in the most correct and optimal way.
- That if there is an employee in the camera section.
- You will surely be someone who knows photography.
- A passionate photographer.
- An expert in the field.
- In the worst case.
- Even if he had no previous experience.
- It is assumed that he will at least have received intense and complete training in the field.
She believes that her company, the hypermarket chain in question, is extremely concerned that, as a customer, she receives the right advice and goes home with the product that best suits her needs.
Do you think “customer satisfaction is our priority”?
I couldn’t be further from the truth.
The sad thing is that most of these sites place them in the “Photo” section. staff who don’t have much idea of photography. Some do, but it’s not a must-have.
In a hypermarket, the section?Photography?actually is just a small part of something called “electronic”. When you work in one of these places, one day you’re with the TVs, the next day you take the washing machine and dishwasher part, and the next week you have the picture and?Vacuum cleaners.
Your boss expects you to know all this and the one that covers a lot doesn’t stop you, you have to be able to advise the man who wants to buy an electric pot, but also the woman looking for a lens for her SLR camera. So in the end you do everything, but you do it wrong.
Besides, as if that wasn’t enough, you’re in a “training” period. Look at that incentive!
This not only happens in hypermarkets, you can also find it in some large electronics stores and some department stores. Don’t expect these sites to place you in the passionate photographer of a lifetime, an expert who knows the cameras from A to Z and who will guide you to what you need for your particular case.
Whatever you are, and whatever your needs, the employee in the Photography section of your favorite hypermarket will always guide you, always, almost certainly, to the camera with more. Let’s see if you can guess the camera with more?
With more?
You know that, don’t you? Should we say that?
The camera with the most megapixels, of course!
A lot of those employees who run it? They have not received the necessary training. A BdF reader would know more than many of them. If I ask a (supposedly) expert in the section and recommend a camera, mainly because it is the one with the largest number of megapixels, something is incorrect.
Important note: the truth is, I know a large region here in Spain where, in general, the employee of each section is an expert in their field, I do not say the name of the surface so as not to publish, but yes. There are. What I denounce in this article is that this is the exception, when that should be the rule.
I do not recommend buying your camera in a place where you sell fish and fruit, refrigerators and electric stoves. Find a specialized store.
If you prefer to buy your camera in a hypermarket or a large electronics department, because that’s where you found the cheapest cameras, okay, but ask for advice?Search for information for yourself, consult forums and blogs on the Internet, many people recommend cameras with criteria, check out our guide here on BdF with the best SLRs or compact cameras if you need them. store, know which camera you’re going to buy. Don’t give the photography clerk a hard time.
I’m not going to blame you. Shit comes from above. You’re just a race, so cheer up. (And at the first opportunity, try to get out of there like a soul carrying the devil, please. )
I know the main goal of your hypermarket or your big electronics department is to make money, I get it and it sounds good to me, check it out. What I’m saying is that when I place unqualified employees in the Photography section, people who when they arrive at work know nothing about photography and who on the first day receive only 2 hours of training and a photocopied manual in low resolution, I say it a lot. box you’re not going to do, so all you get is:
What do you think of all this?Am I the one who quickly outrages me, or are you with me because you can’t run an employee one day in the Nespresso coffee machines section and the next in the SLR section?
Good picture.