Hewlett-Packard(HP) has won a highly lucrative and bitterly contested battle against Kodak as the printer supplier for photo kiosks in thousands of Wal-Mart stores, giving HP pavilion dv4 batery a dynamic and long-lasting revenue stream for its ink, toner, and paper. Kodak’s loss inspired its CMO to tweet a message to HP saying, “Shame on your tactics.”
There is an article from Wall Street Journal:
The HP kiosk rollout, which Wal-Mart says will be completed by this summer, will dislodge existing photo booths made by Kodak, which has provided its kiosks to Wal-Mart since at least 2006.Wal-Mart has 8,416 retail units under various brand names in 15 countries. . . .”These kiosks stay installed for nine or 10 years,” H-P Chief Executive Mark Hurd told investors at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday morning. HP(hp pavilion dv5 battery) gets “100% supplies connect,” he said, referring to the sales of the additional printing products.
Not surprisingly, the Kodak folks were less than pleased with Wal-Mart’s decision but turned their anger toward competitor HP instead of decision-maker Wal-Mart as Kodak CMO Jeffrey Hayzlett accused HP pavilion dv6 battery of cratering its prices on printers while keeping them high on refills, reference to the Journal story.
“I won’t tweet this, but here’s a little news: how the heck do you think the printer business really operates?”,Hey Jeffrey Said.