Walgreens has announced the selection of Snapfish to host the new Walgreens photo website. Customers to edit their photos online and pick up prints at their local Walgreens store in as little as one hour. Customers can also select to have their prints mailed to them. The service also offers free online photo sharing and photo storage. Customers will be able to order more than 80 different kinds of photo products, including mugs, calendars, mousepads and diaper bags. Also available will be photo T-shrits, ties, and boxer shorts.
Walgreens is rolling out the service on a market-by-market basis, and the service will be available in all markets by September. Click on the headline of this article for more details in the press release.
Walgreens Selects HP's Snapfish to Host Photo Website
PALO ALTO, Calif. & DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 2005--HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) and Walgreens (NYSE:WAG) (Nasdaq:WAG) today announced that HP's Snapfish has been selected to host Walgreens new online photo website -- www.walgreens.com/photo.
The new site allows Walgreens customers to enjoy Snapfish's easy-to-use tools for online photo ordering, sharing and storage. Walgreens also is rolling out on a market-by-market basis the ability for customers to upload photos to the site and pick up prints at the Walgreens store of their choice in as little as one hour. The service will be available in all markets where Walgreens operates by September. Customers can also opt for mail delivery of prints made from their uploaded photos.
"Our partnership with Snapfish gives our customers the most convenient photo services at competitive prices," said John Sugrue, divisional merchandise manager for one-hour photo operations, Walgreens.
Walgreens online photo service from Snapfish will offer:
-- High-quality digital camera prints and photo CDs available for
in-store pickup at local Walgreens stores by September, or by
mail
-- Free online photo sharing
-- Free online photo storage
-- A wide selection of more than 80 distinctive photo products,
including:
-- Personalized photo mugs, calendars and mousepads
-- Photo dog collars, diaper bags, blankets
-- Assorted photo T-shirts, neck ties and sweatshirts
-- Photo boxer shorts, photo table placemats
-- A broad range of free photo editing tools and software
"Today's news provides consumers a seamless connection to sharing their photos online and printing them at Walgreens convenient locations," said Ben Nelson, vice president and general manager for Snapfish, HP. "In combining Snapfish's leadership in online services with Walgreens leadership in retail photo processing, we're giving consumers greater choice, flexibility and access to their memories when, where and how they want them."
