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Walgreens shoppers creating same-day gifts at photo kiosks

November 22, 2011

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Walgreens is now offering same-day pick up for many of its photo gifts, including photo books, calendars, folded cards, holidays cards and other personalized items at more than 3,000 stores across the U.S.

Walgreens new photo technology and printing systems produce high-resolution, color-rich prints at speeds that allow photo technicians to produce some photo gifts in as little as an hour, according to a company press release.

"With most online photo sites, people often have to wait a week or more to get custom photo gifts delivered to their homes," Jasbir Patel, Walgreens senior director and general merchandise manager of photo and e-commerce, said in the release. "Our new service allows customers to pick up these products in their neighborhood store the same day. For time-crunched holiday shoppers, this will be a valuable service."

Customers can create their gifts at Walgreens touchscreen photo kiosks in stores or from home at Walgreens.com/photo.

Products now available with same-day store pickup include:

• Classic Photo books with black linen cover or black leather cover.
• Wall calendars.
• Folded cards.
• Posters, collage calendar posters, board prints.
• Banners and
• Greeting cards.

Prices range from $1.99 each for folded cards to $19.99 and more for photo books

Walgreens will continue to offer hundreds of other photo gift options, such as coffee mugs, Christmas ornaments and mousepads, at stores and online that can be available within days of being ordered.

Read more about photo kiosks.