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| PhotoAccess News 113-Drug Store Chain Unites Digital Camera Users with Free Online Photo Storage and Printing at www.usadrug.com PhotoAccess provides the USA Drug family - USA Drug, Super D Drugs and Ike's Deep Discount stores - with turnkey digital photo printing, ordering and fulfillment services SEATTLE, Wash. and PINE BLUFF, Ark., March 27, 2001 PhotoAccess™ and USA Drug/Super D pharmacies announced today that the drug store chain now offers thousands of in-store consumers the ability to store, manage and order prints of their digital photos from a new online service at www.usadrug.com. According to eBrain Market Research, 48 percent of digital camera users want to store their photos on a Website. "Adding digital photo services to our existing photo counters is one more way USA Drug is evolving its existing retail and online format," said Matt Teeter, director of Internet for USA Drug. "By partnering with PhotoAccess, we were able to cost-effectively integrate digital photo finishing into our service offerings, and quickly make it available in over 110 stores." "I not only work at USA Drug, but I'm a digital camera user," said Jim Crane, a store manager. "Taking digital photos is new and exciting, but storing them on my PC takes up a lot of disk space. I'm excited that the store can offer unlimited storage and printing services for our customers through our corporate Website (www.usadrug.com). I've used the service and can honestly tell my customers how easy it is to group photos and store them on the site. It's really convenient to have all these services available in one location." When customers walk into the photo department at USA Drug, Super D Drugs, or Ike's Deep Discount stores, they can purchase a diskette with 30 prepaid prints and a free copy of PhotoStreamer™, a software package that makes it fast and easy to manage digital photos on a PC/Mac desktop. With PhotoStreamer the customer can easily upload the images to the Web site and create personal and/or guest albums. Orders can either be shipped to the store for pick-up or delivered directly to the customer's home. "The digital camera is in its prime with an installed base of 25 percent of US households," said Mark Waldin, vice president of marketing at PhotoAccess. "USA Drug is a forward thinking photofinisher that is positioning itself well to retain and strengthen its customer base." PhotoAccess is a leading retail Applications Services Provider (ASP) that supplies drugstores, grocery stores, specialty camera stores, mass merchandisers and technology partners with complete digital camera photo finishing solutions. Merchants are quickly partnering with PhotoAccess to offer their digital camera customers high quality, professional prints of photographs taken with any digital camera. Retailers also receive a branded photo management, storage, and transaction Web site hosted by PhotoAccess.
About USA Drug Stephen L. LaFrance, a certified pharmacist, founded the USA Drug family in February 1968. The retail drug store chain now boasts over 110 retail outlets in Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas, branded as USA Drug, Super D Drugs and Ike's Deep Discount stores. USA Drug pharmacies were designed to handle large numbers of customers while providing a down-home, friendly atmosphere. USA Drug strives to maintain a continuously evolving retail format to better provide its customers the best products and services at the lowest prices. In addition to retail outlets, the Stephen L. LaFrance Pharmacy, Inc. Corporation formed Select Brand Distributors - its own low priced line of merchandise, which now offers more than 650 Select Brand items. Select Brand products are available in all USA Drug, Super D, and Ike's Discount stores as well as thousands of retail stores throughout the country. For more information visit www.usadrug.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 Contacts: Mark Waldin Trish Horner Matt Teeter |
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