from Digital Era Not All Negative for Photo Shops, by Ellis Mnyandu, via Yahoo:
..."The truth is that the majority of people don't want to come home from vacation and sit at their computers reviewing and printing all those shots," Mark Roth, president of Argraph Corp., a maker of photographic and imaging products, wrote recently in Photo Trade News.
This phenomenon has drugstores, supermarkets and photo shops installing new minilabs and photo kiosks in an attempt to sway customers from home printing, which has been stealing consumers from the $7 billion photo developing industry...
..."We don't think consumers are interested in becoming photo-finishers. They want us to take care of that," said Michael Polzin, a spokesman for pharmacy chain Walgreen Co., the No. 2 U.S. photo developer behind Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
...According to the Photo Marketing Association, Americans are expected to print almost 4 billion digital images this year, up from 800 million in 2001...
..."If the consumer really wants a professional-grade print, increasingly that service is getting more affordable. Print prices at retail are certainly going to get lower," said Sean Wargo, an analyst at the Consumer Electronics Association...
..."Many consumers who are purchasing digital cameras this holiday season are not as nearly tech-savvy as the early adopters of this technology. They are the type that would prefer printing at retail," Flatley said...