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The Walgreens API team would like to welcome My Photo Sizer for iPhone & iPad to our developer program family.

 MyPhotosizer is a free app that helps you resize and crop your favorite photos from your camera roll or Instagram to create a personalized image card. You can then send these image cards directly to Walgreens to have them printed. Use your photo cards to design an endless variety of buttons, magnets, and bracelets with Choose Friendship craft kits. 

When deciding who to approach for this app integration David Crorey, founder and inventor of Choose Friendship crafts, immediately thought of Walgreens. While reading the Walgreen's creed, "We believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in cheer, in friendship, and in honest competition," he knew Walgreens values were in line with his own and the path of his company. There was no better match to be made.

Download My Photo Sizer for iPhone or iPad from the Apple App Store today.

The Walgreens API team would like to welcome Dscvry for iPhone to our developer program family.

Dscvry is an Instagram API client for the iPhone that presents a beautiful way to browse [Instagram] content. Dscvry minimizes UI elements not only spatially speaking, but visually as well, in order to maximize content visibility and accessibility. 

According to Dscvry Founder Nicholas Eby, "One of the game changing features in Dscvry is the seamless integration of the Walgreens QuickPrints API, which allows users to print their individual photos or a collage to their local Walgreens in about an hour. So when enjoying your photos in Dscvry, simply tap the checkbox and your photo will be safely stored and will be ready to print."

Download Dscvry for iPhone from the Apple App Store today.

Walgreens Developer Program Announces Contest to Help Drive Integration of New Photo Book, Wall Calendar & Folded Card Prints

DEERFIELD, Ill., June 20, 2013 – Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) today announced that its QuickPrints API now gives participants the ability to tap into functionality enabling app users to produce and send photo books, wall calendars and folded cards for same day printing at Walgreens.  Through the company’s Developer Program, third-party app developers can easily integrate the API and its new functionality. 

“We’re thrilled to provide app developers with the technology that allows their users to be more creative with their pictures by allowing them to create fun photo products such as photo books and folded cards,” said Jasbir Patel, senior director and general merchandise manager for photo and e-commerce. “We’re transforming the art of scrapbooking and the personalization of cards by encouraging mobile users to preserve their memories in a more convenient way.”

To celebrate the latest enhancements, Walgreens has launched a contest designed to encourage app developers to incorporate the photo book, wall calendars and folded cards functionality into an app.  Participants can enter today through September 30.  Walgreens will award the contest winners cash prizes of $2,000 for the best photo book integration, $2,000 for the best folded cards integration, and $2,000 for the best wall calendar integration.  To learn more about the contest, click here for details. 

In addition to the added functionality, the QuickPrints API allows for standard, square, canvas and poster prints, as well as flat photo card printing.  The developer products are eligible for a 15 percent revenue share commission earned when the photo order is purchased from a local Walgreens.

To learn more about the QuickPrints API click here or view the video at http://bit.ly/wagapivideo.

About Walgreens

As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2012 sales of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to become America’s first choice for health and daily living. Each day, Walgreens provides more than 6 million customers the most convenient, multichannel access to consumer goods and services and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and wellness services and advice in communities across America. Walgreens scope of pharmacy services includes retail, specialty, infusion, medical facility and mail service, along with respiratory services. These services help improve health outcomes and lower costs for payers including employers, managed care organizations, health systems, pharmacy benefit managers and the public sector. The company operates 8,096 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is the largest and most comprehensive manager of worksite health and wellness centers and in-store convenient care clinics, with more than 700 locations throughout the country.

Presentation by Jasbir Patel (Sr. Director of Walgreens Photo) and Joe Rago (Sr. Product Manager) at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition event at McCormick Place West in Chicago, IL on Thursday June 6, 2013.

Presentation at the Apigee API Summit in Chicago, IL on May 23, 2013 by Sr. Product Manager Joe Rago regarding the Walgreens Prescription API.