Kicksend + Walmart: Order Prints for Pickup at 3,800+ Walmart Stores

"all 50 states, including Hawaii, Alaska"

As an Alaskan, we like to think we are always included in the 50 states.

Hint: no one cares about printing from online. This is a lesson we learned the hard way at Eye-Fi. Good luck.

Heh. Not having any idea what Kicksend does, I read "print" and "pickup" and assumed this was about 3D printing. Being able to order 3D prints and pick them up at Walmart sounded like a major leap, so I was rather disappointed to see the blog entry talk about photo printing.

Reading "Walmart has a wide range of popular print sizes you know and love, including 4×6, 5×7, and 8×10" made me feel somewhat underwhelmed. Maybe I'm jaded, but I'm not very impressed about the fact that they can print photos on different-sized papers (none of which I "love").

I couldn't figure out from Kicksend's web site how much the service costs. I expect to be able to find a list of services and prices prominently linked from the home page.

Also, Walmart offers their own digital photo printing service, which currently delivers photos in 3-5 days:

http://photos.walmart.com/walmart/storepage/storePageId=Prin...

If Kicksend catches on, what's to stop Walmart from cutting out the middleman by offering their own phone app and expedited service? And since Walmart already has all the infrastructure for digitally uploading and printing photos, it would probably be a lot cheaper for them to write their own app than to buy Kicksend. So Kicksend seems like a business that could be killed by their own success.

Great, print more things on paper and in the process, help Walmart. Awesome hack guys, I look forward to your next project that partners with Exxon.

Dealing with Walmart is like making a deal with the devil.

Did you do this through the PNI Media API?

http://developer.pnimedia.com/

I wonder how long until everyone can just afford a $100 dye-sub printer.

congratulations kicksend team!