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.

The photo was taken using my camera phone.

It this is not the right sub for this question, please direct me!

EDIT: I found the solution: Make sure that your photos are at least 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or 300 dpi (dots per inch). You can check this at home by using GIMP!