Fierce Healthcare October 18, 2023
SEATTLE—Amazon Pharmacy is launching drone delivery for prescription medication orders with the service initially taking flight in College Station, Texas, the company announced Wednesday.
The pharmacy deliveries will be dropped, quite literally, outside a consumer’s front door within 60 minutes at no additional cost for eligible Amazon Pharmacy customers, the company said.
Amazon Pharmacy is teaming up with the online retailer’s drone service, Prime Air, which kicked off commercial deliveries in the same Texas city in December.
Delivery of medications via drone will be offered in College Station initially and will expand to additional cities in the coming years, an Amazon Pharmacy spokesperson said. The announcement was made this week as part of Amazon’s Delivering the Future event in Seattle...
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