
Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account Notably, it also stopped selling its iconic half-sheet cakes last year. It’s also part of broader changes implemented at Costco over the past year, including limiting the number of people served at its other departments like in optical or hearing aids because of local laws due to the pandemic. Once a staple at grocery stores and pharmacies, photo centers have become increasingly extinct as more people choose to share their photos online rather than print them out. (COST) to its customers explained that the “need for printing photos has steeply declined” since the introduction of high-quality cameras on smartphones and social media. But a letter obtained by a photo blog reportedly sent from Costco

(COST) didn’t immediately reply to CNN Business about the closures. Customers can still print photos and access other perks on Costco’s website, the company said. However, Costco isn’t shutting down its online photo center. Costco is closing its photo centers at all of its roughly 800 stores next month, ending a number of services that have a decidedly retro vibe.įour services will no longer be available to shoppers when the centers will shut down on February 14, including ink refills, the ability to take passport photos, photo restoration and a service that transferred home videos from VHS tapes to DVD or USB devices.
