A drugstore chain in Germany has started making CDs for their patrons in addition to filling their prescriptions. Customers can now go online to create a custom-made CD, and then go to the store and pick it up with their medicine in a couple of days.
The chain, drogeriemarkt or dm, has an online "dm-Musicshop" on its Web site so users can browse through about 200,000 titles from major publishers like BMG, Warner Music, and BMI and pick songs they'd like compiled on a CD. Users pay a basic cost for the CD equivalent to $3.72 with an additional fee of about $1.55 per track and the store compiles the CD for them.
"The dm-Musicshop is meant for music fans who want to have all their favorite songs on one CD, or who are looking for a special gift idea," df managing director Petra Schaefer says.
A spokeswoman for the company said the new service has been heavily publicized in the company's stores, but there haven't been any forecasts pertaining to how many CDs the company will end up selling.
