Download the app using this link and you should see the free print pop up in the app. If it doesn't show, open the app using the link again. The total at checkout will be $0.00 if it worked.
Using the new CVS photo app, which frankly is utterly embarassing. I know high schoolers that could code a more professional app in their basements. Trying to get posters made for my band's shows and I have this problem almost every time I try to to print anything. Virtually every picture I have was taken by my 4k phone and yet CVS (and Walgreens, too) app is like, "nope, too low a resolution" and even does this for simple color backgrounds with text written on them.
Does anyone have any tips on how to get around how this nonsense, editing or otherwise? And why does this happen? I could go into a rant on how terrible these photo apps with these places are but it probably serves no purpose.
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I ordered four different 5x7 photos through the CVS app. When I picked up my order, it is four of the same photo. Am I able to get a refund on the three that are not correct, and get copies of the three I originally ordered?
Download the app using this link and you should see the free print pop up in the app. If it doesn't show, open the app using the link again. The total at checkout will be $0.00 if it worked.
Download the app using this link and you should see the free print pop up in the app. If it doesn't show, open the app using the link again. The total at checkout will be $0.00 if it worked!
Why does every CVS need a full scale photo production department? Everyone goddamn knows that all CVS stores are so critically understaffed that the one and only cashier on duty has to cover the photo station. So in addition to ringing a register, and monitoring two ACOs, and unlocking high-theft merch, and stocking freight, and facing the store, and answering the phones, that same one and only part-time no-benefits cashier also has to operate an entire photo center that offers literally a hundred different goddamn products.
Which also means that CVS had to buy a thousand goddamn bigass poster/canvas printers, and a thousand mug printers, and 2,000 photo printers, and a thousand print stations, and 2,000 photo kiosks. And every store has to maintain stupidly high overstock of a hundred different photo-making supplies. My store alone sold 36 of the 16x20 canvases last week. This just seems like such a ridiculous waste of time, money, and effort.
Here's what I propose:
Each store should have one photo kiosk that will only print 4x6 and 8x10 photos, and will only print In-Seconds. No One-Hour photo service. Nothing else. If a customer absolutely needs a photo right this very instant, they can print a photo at the self-serve in-seconds kiosk. Everything else should be done at a corporate photo station through online ordering only and shipped directly to the customer.
Just imagine - one big room in Woonsocket with a few dozen photo printers and couple dozen poster/canvas printers, and racks of shelves just stocked full of all the accessories needed to make everything. So we could schedule three shifts of employees, so the center would run 24/7, and since all the employees would specialize in doing just photo projects, it would cut the production time (and the labor costs) way down. So the customers from all over the country place their orders online, pay online, a team of photo specialists produce the orders, slap UPS shipping labels on them, and everything gets shipped directly to the customers.
We would save a ton of money on equipment. We would save a ton of money on labor. We would save a ton of time which store employees could spend on providing better customer service in their stores. And customers wouldn't have to go into a store and get frustrated by our janky-ass half-functioning equipment. It's a Win-Win-Win.
But I know CVS would never do this. Because it makes sense.
I’m ngl, I know we like to all complain about CVS and also complain about new things, but I’ve legitimately thought for years (before I even started working at CVS) that the CVS app was the superior app over its competitors. It was mostly functional, easily navigate-able, simple, visually appealing - I could get to what I was looking for quickly and easily. Now, not only is it less of all of those things, they took out the Photo function? You now have to go to “more” and press “photo” where it will redirect you to your web browser? Strange
anybody else noticing the site down today? i have been trying to order stuff but it says theres an issue adding to my cart and now it won't even let me sign in. cleared cache and tried different browsers. same thing
Update: I called cvs customer service and the website/app is out. Representative could not tell me why or give me any indication as to when it will be back up.
Redditors keep saying you can print your own photo and then print it at the pharmacy for cheap but this is TERRIBLE ADVICE.
this doesn't work unless your photo is high def. Recently discovered that they compress your image if you go this route. Wasted way too much time trying to troubleshoot only to discover that when I printed the same image with the kiosk passport software as opposed to the 4x6 or 5x7, the resolution got 100x better. IT'S THE EXACT SAME PHOTO! They're running a scam to upcharge you the same product.
How is cvs's photo department? If I sent a photo order from my phone to a store how is the service? 🙂
I am so tired of this photo department crap. I literally don't have time for this and all the extras CVS has decided to offer this is ridiculous.
I've been working at CVS for quite a while now, yet I still don't know how to handle photos. A lot of the cahiers here don't actually! Yet we're called to them pretty often.
I know it's a self service and all, but I don't know how to troubleshoot, how to take and process passports and all of that. If there's even just a general guide you can link me to so I can read up on things that would be nice.
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https://www.cvs.com/photo/photo-landing
In my situation I am trying to get a passport before September 16, in order to get it fast I’m gonna try do expedited and try avoid a rejection. I’ve heard that when you go somewhere to take your photo you won’t have any control over if the photo they are taking are meeting the requirements so it still might be rejected anyway. I also heard that if you try doing it yourself it will be just as hard. What would be the better option?
I went to get pictures printed out for Mother’s Day, and every picture turned out AWFUL. Granted, they were from my phone. But I have a relatively newer iPhone and didn’t edit the pictures before hand. It was all white washed. I even sat there and tried editing them on my phone and reprinting and there was absolutely no change. Just literally whitewashed. Dark brown hair, coming out brown and white. They were so blurry too, that I didn’t even end up giving them to anyone. I tried about 6 different pictures and they all came back the same.
Is there a better place to print pictures other than cvs? I’m sure there are websites or apps but it’d be irritating to wait for a print and end up finding out it isn’t good quality.
Does anyone have any luck printing from cvs?
I do have an actual camera but for some reason I always feel so extra carrying it around to things. And I like the candid pictures from my phone.