Retailers Capture Digital Shooters Photo Printing Business: Washington Post writer Mike Musgrove indicates in his recent article “Retailers Win Foothold in Digital Photos” that now that digital camera have literally replaced film cameras consumers are turning to an old-school solution for getting prints of the their digital images, the local discount store.
Retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp., Costco Wholesale Corp. and Wal Mart’s Sam’s Club are blending Web site technology and old world printing to deliver prints to their customers.
Wal-Mart’s digital photo service indicates that more than half of the visitors to its Web site used it to order digital photo printing.
Competition is pushing more partnerships together between online and offline businesses. Target has teamed with Yahoo Photos for four-hour pickup, and Costco has partnered with Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Snapfish, which powers the online photo center for the membership warehouse.
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