Circuit City
launches Online Photo Services Powered by Snapfish
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 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.
“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 Kapoor, 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, 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: CC) is a leading
specialty retailer of consumer electronics. Circuit City operates
626 Superstores and five mall-based stores in 160 U.S. markets.
Its international segment operates through more than 1,000 retail
stores and dealer outlets in Canada. Circuit City also operates
a Web site at http://www.circuitcity.com.
About Snapfish
Snapfish is the leading online photo service, with over seven
million members and more than 200 million unique photos online.
Snapfish enables both film and digital camera owners to share,
print and store their most important photo memories at the lowest
prices - online or off. Digital camera users upload 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 as
low as 19¢. 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 Award as the site demonstrating
the fastest growth on the Internet, as measured by Nielsen//NetRatings.
Additional information is available at www.snapfish.com.