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# The death of the one hour photo lab
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2015/05/the-death-of-the-one-hour-photo-lab/
- Published: 2015-05-04T21:43:26.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-28T20:09:44.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: digital disruption, disruption, photography

Sometimes we in media think we’ve been hit hard by digital. Be profoundly glad you don’t run an independent one-hour photo shop:

![The dying photolabs](https://storage.ghost.io/c/36/d8/36d823b7-59a1-4c8b-91bd-a54c64552596/content/images/2021/04/1x-1.gif)

> No other business over the past 15 years has died off with the near-totality of the all-American photo shop. There are now just 190 left

Source: *[Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business – Bloomberg Business](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-30/twilight-of-the-one-hour-photo-shop-america-s-fastest-fading-business?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)*