In-Store Photo Processing

Another benefit to increased broadband speed is the ability to upload pictures. This allows people to send their photos to websites to share with others, publicly or privately, as well as order prints. There are about a zillion companies offering this, and they are creating an incredibly competitive marketplace for photo processing. This hyper-competitive marketplace is spreading to in-store photo processing, at retailers like Wal-Mart and CVS.

The nice thing about the in-store processing is that it is immediate, and that there are no shipping costs. For this reason, I don't expect in-store photo processing to get phased out, like those old drive-thru Photomats.

Those were kind of cool, no?

N.B. - I just did a search for Photomat's and found this cool picture:

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