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Internet, industry analysts say most of the local camera shops like paul's simply closed up and disappeared. >> we had 17 camera stores, sold them in 1990. today not a single location that we were in has a photographic application. all of them have become something else. >> bill mccurry of princeton-based mccurry associates, is a business adviser to what he calls the imaging industry. he's watched this painful process of extinction play out in large and small towns across the country. >> ten years ago, ritz camera had 1,200 camera stores. today there are 11 operating. economically, you will no...

Something else. >> bill mccurry of mccurry associates is a business adviser to what he calls the imaging industry. he's watching the painful process of extinction play out in large and small towns across the country. >> ten years ago, ritz camera had 1200 camera stores. today, they are 11 operating under the name. >> the problem, they say, extends beyond technology and the internet. they blame the suppliers as well. >> we have no control over pricing in our business. the camera manufacturers control the price. so when i sell you a $1,000 camera, you guys have to realize that $950 of that $1,00...