Thrifty White Drug, a Minnesota-based pharmacy and drug store chain, has launched a new online photo service in time for this year's holiday shopping season, provided by LifePics. The new online photo service gives Thrifty White Drug customers a place to store and share digital photos for free, and order photos and other photo products online to be picked up at a local Thrifty White Drug store -- often in as little as one hour -- or delivered to the customer's home or office. Thrifty White Drug currently has 13 locations where customers can pick up photos ordered online, located in Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, and North Dakota.
"Our new online photo service from LifePics comes just in time for the busy holiday shopping season," said Val Lehmann, Photo Specialist at Thrifty White Drug. "The LifePics service gives us over 2,000 holiday templates and themes, state-of-the-art calendar and photo book engines that are fun and easy to use, and award-winning photo gifts. The combination of photo products, integration with our in-store labs, and top-notch customer service is what attracted us to LifePics in the first place. We are extremely excited about this new partnership, and look forward to watching the order volume grow as customers catch on this holiday season and beyond."
Thrifty White Drug customers can create a free online photo account through the new service to store and share an unlimited amount photos for free. Through the online service, customers can also create photo books, photo calendars, personalized greeting cards, custom photo gifts, and much more. Customers can then order the products to be picked up at their local Thrifty White Drug store or have the order shipped to their home or office.
"Thrifty White Drug has served the Midwestern area for decades as a trusted local pharmacy, and we are proud to now be a part of their customer service-oriented legacy as the online photo services provider," said Vahe Christianian, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at LifePics. "Both Thrifty White Drug and LifePics believe that customer service and satisfaction is the number one priority above all else. I think our partnership with Thrifty White Drug in the online photo space will be a successful relationship and will be enjoyed by several generations of Thrifty White Drug customers."
Order Photos Through the Thrifty White Drug Online Photo Service
LifePics is the market leader in providing retail photofinishers and professional photographers with the latest online imaging services and technologies to conduct business on the Web. More retailers and professional photographers use LifePics than any other Internet-enabled photo ordering solution. LifePics works closely with retailers to help build their online photo businesses, driving orders to retailers and professional photographers through a variety of outlets. LifePics is the most open solution on the Web; the service integrates with almost every photo printer and photo lab for in-house order fulfillment, and connects to many specialized wholesalers to offer creative and profitable products that retailers can use to complement their in-house offerings.
Put simply, LifePics is the key conduit in turning images into transactions by connecting billions of digital images captured by consumers to retailers, professional photographers, wholesalers, and other service providers.
Using LifePics' technology, photofinishers and professional photographers are able to accept orders from consumers via the Internet. Orders can be sent directly to stores for 1-hour service, or routed to major wholesalers, gift providers, photo book manufacturers, and an assortment of other service providers. The service allows consumers to order thousands of products, including prints, photo books, personalized greeting cards, photo calendars, enlargements, gifts like photo mugs and mouse pads, and much more. Consumers can also store as many photos as they’d like for free, and share photos with friends and family in a variety of ways.
LifePics' customers include a broad assortment of mass merchants, food and drug chains, local camera shops, and independent photofinishers. The LifePics service is available at more than 20,000 retail stores across North America, Australia, and Africa.
For more information, visit LifePics at www.LifePics.com.
Thrifty White Drug is comprised of two major companies: White Drug Enterprises and Thrifty Drug Stores, Inc.
White Drug was founded in 1884 by Mr. and Mrs. H.E. White in Jamestown in what was then the Dakota Territory. Mrs. White was the first female pharmacist in the Territory. White Drug continued to grow over the years and had 38 stores when acquired by the parent company, Thrifty Drug Stores, Inc in 1985.
Thrifty Drug was founded in 1957 by Mr. Douglas Stark, Mr. Jack Lindoo and Mr. Edward Olsen. Store #1 for Thrifty Drug Stores was located in Brainerd, MN. Today Thrifty White Drug's center of competitive commitment remains the rural Midwest, with over 80+ locations in Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Montana and Wisconsin. The company's primary focus is pharmacy business along with associated drug store operations. The pharmacy, health aids, cosmetics, photo, giftware, and greeting card departments are the core departments the business is built around.
Thrifty White is committed to providing healthcare to small towns and cities in the rural Midwest that range from 1,000 to 90,000 in population. In 2003, Thrifty White opened its first telepharmacy site. This concept allows a trained, certified and experienced pharmacy technician to fill and dispense prescription medications after being verified by a pharmacist over an audio-video link. This arrangement allows a community to continue pharmacy services even though the local drugstore has closed or the community is too small to support a traditional drug store. This technology allows patients to receive their medicine while they wait and still be able to talk to a pharmacist.
Thrifty White Drug currently operates 4 Telepharmacy Stores in communities that otherwise would have no prescription services. Thrifty White Drug is committed to providing healthcare services to small rural communities wherever possible, and believes that its services and products must exceed the expectations of its customers.
For more information, visit Thrifty White Drug at www.thriftywhite.com.
