Ritz Camera Centers
Ritz Camera & Image was a photographic retail and photofinishing specialty store, headquartered in Beltsville, Maryland. The company owned and operated a chain of 137 locations throughout the United States under the names Wolf Camera, Kits Cameras, Inkley’s, The Camera Shop, Inc., Cameras West, PROEX, and Boaters World. On September 10, 2012, the company announced that it would liquidate its assets after it failed to emerge from its second chapter 11 bankruptcy in four years.
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