[Wheatfield]

When I worked in retail camera stores, it was photofinishing that kept the doors open. At some point, we had to install expensive photofinishing equipment to keep the print volume coming in, and so we adjusted our business method to one hour photofinishing, and we kept the doors open.
At some point, mass merchandisers such as Wal-Mart, Costco and various grocery stores decided to move into the photofinishing business.
Since they were treating the picture business as a loss leader designed soley to bring people in the door, their prices were somewhat lower than what we were able to offer and stay profitable. The first mass market lab in my area was a Superstore grocery store, priced at about 50% of what we were selling printing for.

That put a lot of us out of business, especially the full service camera stores that had expensive slower moving stock. It didn't help us that the grocery store was also selling cameras at below our cost as well.

Anyway, the customers of the day decided that they didn't want camera stores, and they voted with their wallets, taking their business to the cheapest place in town.
And so we closed shop.
As did three other camera stores in my city.

At some point, along came the internet, and online shopping. That kicked the crap out of the few stores that were left, as people decided that they would rather shop online from B&H, save a few dollars, and let the few remaining camera stores go out of business.

Digital is merely one of the last nails in a coffin which started being constructed some 20 years ago.

And now, people crab that they don't have access to real camera stores any longer.
You have access to exactly what you told the business world you wanted access to.
You wanted quick, cheap and dirty film processing done by store clerks rather than professional lab technicians.
And that is what you got.
You wanted the convenience of online ordering so that you wouldn't have to drag your sorry fat asses out of your chairs and talk to knowledgeable sales people.
And that is what you got.

You told us you didn't need us any longer, and now that we are mostly gone, you have the temerity to whinge about "inconvenience"?

Maybe you should have thought about that two decades ago when you hung us on the line to dry.