Window shopping location suggestions?

[sraun]

This is question mostly aimed at Twin Cities, MN locals.

I'm in search of the smallest number of places to actually hold the largest number of different manufacturer's digital cameras.

Places I can think of to look:

Best Buy
Computer City
CompUSA

National Camera and Video Exchange
Ritz Camera

Any opinions on overlap? I'd prefer to not go to all five if I can avoid it.

ETC: Added "Window" to the Subject line.

Comments

[sraun]

I'm not looking at buying at any of them right now! If I were, I wouldn't have listed CompUSA!

I want to handle as many of the fit-in-an-Altoids-tin class of cameras as I can. I don't really want to go to all five of those locations to do so. So, the question becomes, which two or three give me the most bang for my time?

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

My experience is from the early fall of 2003. The big box places had the most cameras you could just pick up, well, tethered by a cable for security. At the time, MEI Microcenter also had a large display of digital camera.

National Camera had the cameras in a display case, which meant interacting with a sales rep to see them. My sales rep was *tons* better than any employee I encountered at any of the other places I browsed and shopped. I ended up buying a model that hadn't been on any of my lists of possibilities, and I've been exceptionally happy with it. (It's larger than what you're looking for, which is why I'm not going to the trouble to look up the specifics and provide a link.)