Circuit City Launches Online Photo Services Powered by Snapfish.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Snapfish, a leading online photo service, today announced the offering of complete Snapfish photo services on Circuitcity.com. The new offering, currently live at www.circuitcity.com/photocenter, provides consumers access to the value, ease of use and selection of Snapfish's online services. The new relationship also demonstrates how Snapfish's online services can be easily incorporated into a retailer's existing offerings to improve customer choice, while also exposing potential new customers to the retail brand through the incredible ease of online photo sharing Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user's digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images. . "We chose Snapfish for our online photo service because of its category leadership, technical expertise and understanding of our needs as a retailer with substantial online and offline operations," said Fiona Dias, president of Circuit City Direct. "Snapfish has created a comprehensive and easy-to-use online service that fits very well into our existing online retail environment. Circuitcity.com is now a complete online retail solution for both photo equipment and services." Snapfish photo products and services available now at Circuitcity.com include:
-- Free unlimited online image posting, storage and sharing for
film and digital camera photos
-- Free mobile services, that include unlimited online image
posting, storage and sharing for camera phone photos
-- Free broad selection of photo editing tools
-- Professional, film-quality digital camera prints, on Kodak
paper, for just 19 cents everyday or as low as 15 cents with a
prepaid plan
-- Poster prints (11x14, 12x18, 16x20, 20x30)
-- Wide selection of more than 70 distinctive photo products,
including:
-- Personalized photo mugs, calendars and mousepads
-- Photo dog collars, leashes and feeding bowls
-- Assorted photo T-shirts and sweatshirts
-- Photo boxer shorts
-- Photo table placemats, etc.
-- Photo greeting cards
"With this agreement, Circuit City offers its customers a more complete digital imaging solution by adding the photo sharing, storage and printing services of Snapfish to its wide range of digital and film cameras," said Raj raj also Raj n. Dominion or rule, especially the British rule over India (1757-1947). [Hindi r Kapoor Kapoor or Kapur, (Punjabi: ਕਪੂਰ, Hindi: कपूर) is the name of a clan of Hindus belonging to the Khatri caste. , president and co-founder of Snapfish. "We believe there are many great efficiencies and expanded functionality to be derived both for customers and retailers by joining the best aspects of retail with our leading online service." In addition to powering online photo centers for more than a dozen major online entities, Snapfish also maintains its own concept retail store in Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,284. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) south of downtown Washington, DC. , further demonstrating how the value, ease of use and selection of Snapfish's online services can be combined with the convenience of retail, to enhance customer satisfaction, as well as boost sales and profits for existing retailers. About Circuit City Stores, Inc. Richmond, Va.-based Circuit City Stores (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CC) is a leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics. Circuit City operates 626 Superstores This is a list of superstores by country. Multi-national
About Snapfish Snapfish is the leading online photo service, with over 11 million members and more than 300 million unique photos online. Snapfish enables film camera, digital camera and camera phone owners to share, print and store their most important photo memories at the lowest prices -- online or off. Digital camera and camera phone users upload See download. upload - /uhp'lohd/ To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral "client" system to a larger or central "host" one. Opposite: download. photos into a password-protected online album they can use to edit, share and store their photos for free, in addition to ordering film-quality prints, on Kodak paper, for just 19 cents everyday, or as low as 15 cents with their prepaid pre·pay tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays To pay or pay for beforehand. pre·pay  ment n. plans. Customers sending film to Snapfish get a full set
of prints on Kodak paper, plus online sharing and storage, for just
$2.99 per roll. Snapfish also received the 2003 Rising Star Webby See WBI. Award
as the site demonstrating the fastest growth on the Internet InternetPublicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , as measured by Nielsen//NetRatings. Additional information is available at www.snapfish.com. |
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