Photo Finishing Ecosystem has fragmented

By Jake Harpin on October 9th, 2007

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“The photo finishing ecosystem has fragmented,” said Mr. Liem. It used to be a matter of dropping off a roll and choosing between one-hour and overnight processing, matte and glossy. “Now you can bring your media card in and go to a kiosk and have it printed in a second. Or you can have it printed at a one-hour photo lab. Or you can upload the image to a wholesale facility on the Internet and have it delivered to a retail store.”Mr. Liem said he, too, was not surprised to hear of Stop & Shop’s decision to stop processing film. “We knew retailers were most likely going to do that, because they can no longer do just two things. They have to do 10 things now.”

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