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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 189255" data-attributes="member: 6277">I was managing a region for a major one hour photo chain and about 25 years ago I ended up buying 2 of the labs where I live now. The first year we were there we did over $600,000 in photo finishing alone. Those numbers started to drop in a few years when the equipment got cheap and a lot easier to use so every WalMart and drug store started to install them. The quality they produced was crap so we held our own for a number of years. Then I started to see digital slowly coming in. Bad quality are first but my background was electronics and especially television so I saw the direction it was going. I sold out before the bottom started to drop out and went to work for another chain as a area manager over the southeast. They owned 700 labs and I manager about 100 of them. I left eventually and since that point all the labs closed and the parent company also owned Sears portrait and they went out of business to. I think there are a few good printing companies that are still out that and will continue to operate because it is still cheaper to have prints done than it is to print your own. But many people like me don't print that many photos anymore. They get processed and put on FB or sent to my phone because that is a lot better than carrying around a photo album. I have access to all my photos in my phone as long as I can access the internet. I can access my Network Attached Storage from anywhere and all my photos are on there. My favorites are located on my phone. I think at this time where we are is pretty much going to be the norm till the next big thing comes out.</blockquote>

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