Settling for Mediocrity

I thought I would share an experience I had over the Christmas Holidays. Every year Jules and I do our annual Christmas Greeting card and at times we have also given our Grandparents updated photos of us to display in there homes. As usual, once we have taken our photos and collected all the images we would like to print we send them via The Internet to Walgreens and we have them printed. Well, this year I sent the photos to the Walgreens in my parents home town so that I could pick them up when we arrived at their house. As I approached the counter of the photo center the clerk withheld my prints and called for the manager. I asked what the problem was and the clerk replied, "Please wait for the manager to talk with you." As the manager approached he proceeded to tell me that he had the photos printed but would not sell me the prints. Infuriated I asked, "WHY?" He continued to tell me that photos were too professional looking. I insisted that these were my personal images and that they were taken with my camera. I also told him that I would show him the camera that I took the images with and I would also show him the SD card that the images were still on. He still proceeded to tell me that he would not sell me the prints. My response to the manager was, "So what are you telling me? I have to shoot crappy photos in order to get my photos printed? Why is it so hard to believe that someone can take professional quality pictures?" He continued to deny me the purchase of my prints.

It aggravates me when people set a standard of mediocrity. I can understand if I brought pictures in that had a photographers logo on the back of the paper but these were images pulled straight from my SD card that came out of my camera. Needless, to say...we will no longer use Walgreens to print our photos. We now use Wal-Mart Photo Center and we have been VERY pleased with the service and the quality.