Newspapers have lost readers to the Internet, video stores areclosing as movies are rented at kiosks or downloaded to computers,and the U.S. Postal Service is delivering fewer letters as consumerspay bills online.
Now, here's another sign of our changing, digitized times:Grocery chain King Soopers is closing photo processing operations -both film and digital - at its Colorado stores because of reduceddemand.
The chain has 141 King Soopers and City Market stores in thestate; photo processing was being done at 114 locations, including10 Colorado Springs-area stores and one City Market in WoodlandPark, said Kelli McGannon, King Soopers' public affairs director.Operations will cease Feb. 5.
Photo processing has been on the wane for years as digitalcameras and smart phones have replaced traditional film cameras. Buteven with digital photos, consumers are printing them at home orsimply exchanging them via e-mail or social network sites.
"They're (consumers) printing them at home, they're storing themon their home computer, they're posting them online so there's notany need to print," McGannon said. "How people share photos today isdifferent than how they shared photos even five years ago. Facebooksure has changed a lot of things."
No King Soopers employees are expected to lose their jobs as aresult of the closure of photo processing operations, McGannon said.She didn't know how many employees are involved in the work aroundthe state, but the employees already perform other jobs in storesand will continue to do so, she said.
Store areas that are devoted to photo processing will beremodeled into other grocery-related operations, she said.
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