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Amazon Pharmacy launched same-day transportation to New York City and Los Angeles this week, pinch plans to grow nan work to complete a twelve caller cities by nan extremity of nan year.
As of Tuesday, customers successful New York and nan greater Los Angeles area will beryllium capable to get medicine to negociate wellness conditions specified arsenic precocious humor pressure, glucosuria and nan flu delivered to their doorway "within hours," according to nan Seattle-based company.
Amazon told FOX Business that nan adjacent metropolis to characteristic its services will beryllium Orlando, Florida.
Customers successful Indianapolis, Miami, Phoenix, Seattle and Austin, Texas, already person entree to same-day delivery, while customers successful College Station, Texas, tin person medicine wrong an hr by drone.
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Tuesday's announcement marks a milestone successful nan company's effort to go an influential subordinate successful nan health attraction sector.
Currently, rivals successful nan abstraction for illustration CVS and Walgreens will present prescriptions wrong 1 to 2 days for prime medicines. Walgreens, though, does connection same-day transportation for definite medications.
Meanwhile, Walmart offers two-day shipping and overnight shipping for medications upon request, according to its website.
Amazon Pharmacy has launched same-day transportation successful definite U.S. cities. (Amazon / Fox News)
Dr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist who serves arsenic main aesculapian serviceman for Amazon Pharmacy, said filling mail-order prescriptions is not thing nan wellness attraction manufacture has successfully executed — but if done right, it could destruct delays successful diagnoses and trim trips to nan drugstore.
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To thief lick this issue, nan institution is relying connected caller small-format facilities, stocked pinch nan astir communal medicine medications for acute conditions, truthful nan institution tin get medications person to wherever customers live. Its installation successful Brooklyn carries a subset of nan much than 12,000 medications disposable from its online pharmacy, nan institution said.
Amazon Pharmacy plans to grow nan work to much cities by nan extremity of nan year. (Amazon)
The institution said that nan squad on-site successful Brooklyn tin process a medicine wrong a matter of minutes compared to before, which could return hours aliases moreover days.
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Gupta said nan action will get patients medications faster than before, but it besides comes pinch transparent pricing, truthful patients aren't deed pinch unexpected costs astatine nan drugstore counter.
"We don't conscionable show you that… we person it successful stock. We show you what you will beryllium expected to salary pinch nan exertion of insurance," he said.
