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Amazon is gearing up to rocket everyone’s daily dose of medicine straight into their homes—yes, folks, same-day prescription delivery is coming to 20 more cities next year. Because when you need your Vicodin, who’s got time for those pesky little things called “waiting” or “going outside”?
During a dystopian-themed press conference at one of its fulfillment centers in Nashville, Tennessee, Amazon announced plans to sprinkle pharmacies throughout its same-day delivery facilities. As if they weren’t already invading enough corners of the consumer world—now they’ll be your friendly neighborhood drug dealer too!
This speedy pill-pusher service first rolled out in New York and Los Angeles, followed by a soft launch in places that desperately needed a little pharmaceutical pizzazz: Indianapolis, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle, and Austin, Texas. By 2025, expect Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Diego to join the party. Your medicine cabinet is about to become more packed than your streaming queue!
In true Amazon fashion, they’re also working on delivering prescriptions by drone because who doesn’t want an air raid of ibuprofen? If you can tap that little “buy now” button by 4 p.m., you can expect your medications to arrive by 10 p.m. Which is just in time for you to forget you ordered anything—and then be utterly confused by the random assortment of pills that arrives at your doorstep.
Settle in with Amazon Pharmacy, where you can bypass traditional medical practices entirely by ordering your meds straight through your app. If you’re a Prime member, congratulations, your delivery is now free. Because if we’re honest, who doesn’t love the idea of paying a monthly fee to have our drugs flown to us? It’s like a subscription box but for your pain relievers.
This pharmacy venture stemmed from Amazon’s acquisition of PillPack in 2018. They were so proud of their growth that they announced they doubled their customer base in the last year—though, fun fact: they refused to share just how large that crowd has grown, meaning their “pharmacy desert” strategy is working, but statistics are also as slippery as a bar of soap in a shower.
With big box competitors like CVS and Walgreens —which have fewer stores every year, because who really needs a pharmacy every corner? —Amazon is stepping in like a superhero for all those suffering from “pharmacy deserts” across the U.S. Can’t find a pharmacy? Well, just order online and you’ll have medicine before you can say “oops, I overdosed on Netflix.”
In its ongoing attempt to dominate the healthcare sector (because Jeff Bezos just doesn’t have enough on his plate), Amazon also snatched up primary care provider One Medical for a cool $3.9 billion. In a plot twist fit for a medical drama, it also decided to shut down its telehealth service, Amazon Care, because why not have a little chaos along with your pharmaceuticals? They also shuttered their line of fancy health devices, because nothing says health improvement like getting rid of all the gadgets that helped keep you from eating five bags of chips at once.
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