Bill -
Does your location accept files submitted via the Wal-Mart web site? If so, is this a growing or significant percentage of your printing?
There are three places here in town, that offer this service with next day (or even one-hour) pickup. Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and a local family owned camera shop called Rockbrook Camera. Wal-Mart and Rockbrook are about a quarter a print; Sam's is an unbelievable eighteen cents. I can't make 4x6's that cheap.
I don't know if it's a big part of their business, but I think it's a great service. I can't help but think it will be a growing part of the business.
Last weekend I showed my mother, who just got her first digital camera at 76 years old, how to use the service. She had transferred about a dozen photos, taken Christmas day, to her computer. She ordered single prints of four images and five copies of a fifth image. The total order was 9 prints coming to a bit over $2.00 (US)
Had she used her 35mm point and shoot or, more typically for her, a single use camera she would have ordered double prints of the full roll of 24 shots. She probably would have paid about $6 to $10 for that. Add another $7 to $10 if she would have ordered a set of files on a CD.
I'm not sure which order is more profitable for the seller. Where does the photo center make it's money these days? Is it sheer volume?
Just curious.
See you later, gs
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