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| PhotoAccess News Fruth Pharmacy Chooses PhotoAccess as Partner
- Digital camera users, throughout Ohio and West Virginia, can now obtain prints and merchandise at 22 retail locations, by placing orders conveniently at www.fruthpharmacy.com PT. PLEASANT, W. VA and SEATTLE, Wash., January 29, 2001 PhotoAccess™ and Fruth Pharmacy, the 22-store pharmacy chain serving Southwestern West Virginia and Southern Ohio, announced today that the drugstore chain has successfully integrated PhotoAccess' turnkey digital camera photo finishing services with www.fruthpharmacy.com. "Partnering with PhotoAccess has been efficient, cost-effective and a completely streamlined experience," said Terri Thomas, director of advertising for Fruth. "As a small retailer, we wanted to expand our film services and offer our digital camera customers a way to get their prints quickly. It only took a few weeks for PhotoAccess to integrate with our Web site. Now, customers can go directly to www.fruthpharmacy.com to store their digital photos and order prints, and they can pick up their photos at any of our stores during their regular shopping trips." Fruth Pharmacy began working with PhotoAccess in December, when the company announced that it had expanded its digital photo finishing solutions to include branded Web sites for drugstores, grocery stores, mass merchandisers, and specialty camera stores. Like Fruth Pharmacy, other merchants are quickly moving to partner with the Applications Services Provider (ASP) to offer their customers high quality, professional prints of photographs taken with any digital camera. Within three weeks of signing up, Fruth was able to offer customers access to its own branded, photo management, storage, and transaction Web site, which is hosted by PhotoAccess. The Web site extends Fruth's online service options and offers its customers convenient, digital photo management, permanent online album storage, flexible print and merchandise ordering methods, and fast delivery options, including the ability to pick prints up at various Fruth Pharmacy's, or receive them by mail. "Digital camera customers can purchase 25 or 50 prepaid prints from our camera counters," said Thomas. "This makes it easy for them to go home, load the free PhotoStreamer™ software that is on the prepaid print disk, upload their images and order prints. In three days, they can swing by our store and pick up the prints or have them delivered at home...it's really very easy." Thomas also appreciates the ability to maintain and build customer service by offering customers a way to email her directly and ask questions. "This helps me stay in touch with what my customers want, and if I need PhotoAccess' help, I just contact them or forward the email to them for an answer."
About Fruth Pharmacy Fruth Pharmacy has been serving Southwestern West Virginia and Southern Ohio Since 1952. Known as the "Hometown Pharmacy," Fruth caters to the needs of its customers by providing superior customer service at 22 locations. Fruth's pharmacists are on duty seven days a week and are dedicated to serving every prescription need. For more information visit www.fruthpharmacy.com.
About PhotoAccess Founded in 1998, PhotoAccess.com is the leading Internet retail Applications Service Provider of digital camera, photo finishing solutions benefiting retailers, professional photographers and consumers. In three weeks, businesses can have an integrated, flexible, branded, and cost-effective e-commerce Web site, hosted by PhotoAccess.com, that offers consumers exceptional digital photo prints and merchandise, online image management, permanent storage, ordering, and delivery options. PhotoAccess also provides customization and licenses its technologies to a variety of photographic, electronic, Web and software development companies. PhotoAccess.com is privately held, funded through venture capital firms, and has offices in Seattle, Washington, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information visit www.photoaccess.com or the Japanese Web site at www.photoaccess.co.jp.
Press Contact: Mark Waldin Trish Horner Terri Thomas
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