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When using a service like Costco or Sams, the image should always be converted (not assigned) to sRGB. The minilabs they use are virtually always geared to sRGB or something close.
What you posted here has an embedded sRGB profile but if what you delivered to Sams was in Prophoto, that might account for the dark green.
Some minilab equipment can also have problems with embedded color profiles, even if they are sRGB. I believe that that problem is much less common these days but if you still have problems, you might want to try converting to sRGB but NOT embedding the profile.
If you are spending time editing the image to your preference in PS or LR, it is also usually worth instructing the Sams folks to "NOT make any automatic adjustments to the image". That will help insure that your hard work won't get auto-adjusted away during printing, although the operator may or may not actually read or pay attention to your instructions.
Hardware calibration and profiling can be helpful. It just depends on how picky you are, how much you want to spend on your photography, and how out of whack your monitor is to begin with. I do not believe that lack of calibration and profiling was the major culprit in this particular case though. In other words, if the only thing that changes in the scenario is you using a hardware-based calibrator/profiler, you will likely still get dark green prints at Sams. Something else needs to change somewhere.
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