Woodman’s Markets, a Janesville, WI-based food retailer, will use the LifePics online imaging solution to enable customers to upload digital photos and pick up prints in an hour at 11 stores in Wisconsin and Illinois.

Woodman’s will use LifePics’ LabCenter lab software to send orders directly to their high-end Fuji Frontier photo labs at each store.

While we have been offering an online service for awhile, we realized that we needed to upgrade to 1-hour service directly to the store and offer a more robust and comprehensive solution to maintain our competitive edge, said Larry Nitz, photo category manager. LifePics allows us to send orders directly to each of our stores while at the same time allowing us to sell high-margin products like photo templates and photo-related gifts.

Woodman’s will be selling a variety of photo-related products and services, including photo-sharing, holiday cards, photo gifts, and online photo preservation.