Camera shops can't print RAW format

Recently I've come back from a beautiful Caribbean cruise with new photos taken with my Nikon camera. As soon as I came home from my vacation, I immediately took my flash card to the local camera shop hoping to get my pictures developed. I thought it was going to be as simple as me handing over my flash card, and getting my pictures. Unfortunately, I found out that my local camera shop doesn't print RAW format pictures. What is the best format to transfer to without losing quality? The local dealer said jpeg.

The reason you shoot in Raw format is so you can have more options and control in post processing. If you intend to let a program (or a printing lab) use automatic setings to convert the raw imagesto JPG then there is no point in shooting raw images. In other words the point of using Raw is so you can exercise crative control over processing and printing.
Typically when shooting raw format you would download the images onto you computer and then use a program (CS2, Aperture, or iPhoto) to select the best shots, trash the others and then crop, color balance and apply other edits to the images then finaly export them as JPG and burn to a CD or DVD to give to the lab. But if you only have a few images, say around 100 or so, like you say you have, there are services where you can upload the image files over the Internet. Just start the upload process before you go to bed one night and then pick them up at the retail outlet the next day. Saves you a trip.
If what you want is prints made straight off the camera then set the camera to record in JPG. Some photographers can "get it right" in the camera but I find one advantage of digital is that I get a chance to fine tune the image after I shoot. Many times I'll do much more then "fine tune" and go in with an editor and make changes to the background or something. I'll spend at least a couple minutes on each image I think is worth printing and sometime I'll work on it for an hour if I really like it

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