Has Walmart dropped one hour processing elsewhere?

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MMc

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I went to my local Walmart today to have two rolls of color film processed. When I went to the photo counter, I was told that this store no longer developed their film, whether one hour or next day. They said all film is being sent out for processing and it would be next week before the film was returned.

Are Walmarts elsewhere dropping in-store photo processing? Or is this just this particular one? I'm in Indianapolis, BTW. I wasn't aware this change had happened because I mostly shoot B/W and process at home and scan the results.
 
The Wally World near my house, Burke Centre, Virginia, stopped one-hour processing in October 2008.
 
Just curious - after removing the in store film processor, does the local store still send out film for processing?
 
Yes,

In Central Florida it`s all but GONE and the ship out Kodachrome and non C-41/ Black and White film service is too :(

Things don`t look good here in Florida for real flm shooters like myself, time to break out the darkroom equipment again soon. :p

Tom
 
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In a similar vein, the local Costco (Nashua, NH) still does one hour processing, but it appears to have stopped selling bulk boxes (6 packs) of Fuji 400 (the only film on the shelves).

The last dozen boxes were marked down to US$5.97, and I grabbed them.
 
I went to another retailer to drop off my film instead. I told them about Walmart and I was told by the clerk that it is rumored that this store will abandon on-site processing of film sometime this spring, but they will still send film out. It's just like when I was a kid with my first camera in the early 70s -- dropping off film and awaiting its return a week later.
 
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My Wal-Mart has done the opposite. They still do one-hour but they no longer send film out (so no B&W, E^ or K-14).
 
Issy said:
In a similar vein, the local Costco (Nashua, NH) still does one hour processing, but it appears to have stopped selling bulk boxes (6 packs) of Fuji 400 (the only film on the shelves).

The last dozen boxes were marked down to US$5.97, and I grabbed them.
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My local Meijer store put all its Kodak film on a clearance rack and I bought 20 packs since it worked out to slightly less than $1 per roll. I felt like I couldn't pass up a deal like that. Interestingly, this Meijer still sells Fuji film.
 
My WM here still does both send out & 1 hour. They even scan my B&W that I develop at home to cd for $2.50. Right now I have a roll of 120 hp-5 I developed that they sent out for me to be scanned. It will be interesting to see what comes back. I certainly need to get a good scanner.
 
Two local Wally World stores stopped doing film processing. According to a FOAF, the criteria is less than 10 rolls per day over some timeframe.
 
When I was talking to the manager of the Wal-Mart here last year before they stopped processing film here, he said that Wal-Mart planned to stop all onsite processing by the end of 2009 or early 2010. The volume, he said, company wide was just too low to continue paying employees to man that area and run the equipment.
 
The ones that drop one hour film developing are still doing on-site one hour prints from digital files and negs. They're just dropping the film processor while keeping the Frontier machine for prints.
 
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