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Retail clinics - free-standing, walk-in medical providers located in drug stores, shopping malls and stores like Wal-Mart, Target and Walgreens - are rapidly becoming to the health-care industry what Fotomat was to the camera world. There are roughly 1,000 clinics now operating in the U.S., offering acute care for such routine problems as throat infections and earaches as well as providing diabetes and cholesterol screenings, routine checkups and vaccinations. The fees are low - and conspicuously posted; nearly all of the clinics treat both the insured and uninsured, and there is little or no waiting time. With...
...processors send film to a central lab, and it may take up to a week to get the pictures back. Leading the way into one-stop photo processing is California-based Fromex One Hour Photo Systems. The new fast picture service is a threat to established film processors like Fotomat, which has 3,670 locations around the U.S. and offers two-day service, and to instant-camera makers like Polaroid as well. Founded just 20 months ago, Fromex now has 62 shops either open or under construction in the U.S., is launching stores in Australia and Mexico and eyeing...
...photo on the top left Mr. N is focusing his camera while Mrs. N gets Nadia ready. Mr. N might actually take a picture when mommy fixes baby--it's more candid that way. And besides, if daddy doesn't like it, Fotomat will refund him the price of the picture...
...combat these fast-growing upstarts, the big oil firms are experimenting with a variety of customer come-ons. Tenneco stations in the South have opened convenience stores that sell such things as beer and sandwiches. To entice shutterbugs, some Shell stations have installed Fotomat shops next to their pumps. The majors have also started selling private-label gas brands that are not expensively advertised and can be sold at rock-bottom prices. Mobil, for example, has introduced Big Bi and Hi Val gas in some areas. This practice has often put the majors in direct competition with their own stations...
...profile of the Indian on a nickel and a degree from the Wharton School of Finance. He is also the owner of a Fred Astaire Dance Studio, a Travel Inn, a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, a Cinema I, a Cinema II, a Mr. Softee ice-cream stand and a Fotomat - "a Checkpoint Charlie, a Mandelbaum Gate thing, a booth in the open center of a shopping mall...
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