Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account “We maintain a healthy business year-round.” It’s a service that “customers utilize quite regularly,” a Walmart spokesperson said, including people who may not have access to a computer to order prints online. (COST) last year closed photo centers at all of its roughly 800 stores, telling customers that the “continued decline of prints no longer requires on-site photo printing” and that “digital technologies allow consumers to do more with their photos.”īut at Walmart, by contrast, around 3,700 stores have Fujifilm photo kiosks - typically located within the store’s electronics department and they’re often put to use. Though drug stores and other retailers have kept their photo services in stores, it’s not the answer for every business: Costco “Holidays tend to be a busy time for our photo business, with the highest foot traffic generally seen in December,” Valata said. More than 8,000 Walgreens stores offer photo services, said Raghu Valata, Walgreens’ senior director of digital commerce strategy and planning. “We continue to see a strong demand for this service - especially around gift-giving seasons,” a spokesperson said. They’re often heading to these drug stores to pick up other stuff, too.ĬVS offers photo services in around 7,600 stores. Haueter said many consumers like ordering photo prints and products at stores like CVS because they get the goods immediately, with no shipping charges. Disposable cameras have also made a comeback with younger consumers, as celebrities like Chris Pine and Gigi Hadid have been spotted with them, driving interest. Photography became a popular hobby, with camera sales reportedly spiking on sites like Etsy Interest among Gen Z and Millennials in film cameras has picked up in recent years. Retro technology and older gadgets have staying power in part because they allow people to unplug from the constant ping-ping-ping of their devices. Kodak machines are still going strong at CVS. “People aren’t printing as much as they used to, but there are still people who like to print,” said Haueter. More than 50% of photo prints made this year will come from a retail store, totaling about $786 million in sales, said David Haueter, a longtime photo industry analyst and the founder of consulting and market research firm Rise Above Research.Īround 4.2 billion 4” x 6” prints alone will be developed at stores this year, he added. Who needs to print photos anymore? Well, there’s still demand from some customers: Photo services bring traffic into these retailers’ stores, particularly during the peak holiday, graduation and wedding seasons. (WMT), Albertsons and other chains still offer photo prints, greeting cards, books, film processing and other services. In a time when most photos don’t leave the confines of a smartphone, CVS But perhaps the most retro part of these stores is the photo-printing equipment. Many aspects of drug stores and supermarkets feel like they’re of another era.
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