For Immediate Release
December 2, 2004

LANSING — Castle Photo, a specialty retailer in Lansing, has opened shop in the Mall of Michigan, an Internet retailing and shopping service operated by the Michigan Retailers Association (MRA).

Shoppers can access Castle Photo online through the Mall of Michigan at www.mallofmichigan.com. The site is listed in the Electronics section.

Castle Photo serves both professional and amateur photographers with photography equipment, film processing, digital retouching and camera repair. It features a wide selection of Canon cameras and lenses, Pentax products, Tamron lenses, film, paper, chemistry, Tiffen filters, Manfrotto tripods, lighting and background equipment, and many other photography supplies and products.

The store’s website offers information on a selection of its stock items, categorized by manufacturer, as well as links to manufacturers’ websites. It also lists sale items and used equipment for sale.

The Mall of Michigan is a collection of unique specialty shops—all of them MRA members—offering distinctive products online. More than 140 Michigan businesses now participate in e-commerce through this website.

The Michigan Retailers Association is the unified voice of retailing in Michigan and the nation's largest state trade association of general merchandise retailers. MRA's more than 5,500 retail business members operate more than 12,000 stores across the state.