As Amazon Lurks, Walgreens Launches Digital Marketplace Listing Providers And Prices

Walgreens Boots Alliance is launching a new digital marketplace that will connect the pharmacy chain’s mobile visitors to its drugstores as well as local doctors and clinics across the U.S.

The move comes as Walgreens, CVS Health, Walmart and other brick-and-mortar retailers with health services face the possibility online retailer Amazon will expand deeper into the healthcare business. Amazon grabbed headlines last month with its acquisition of the small retail pharmacy PillPack.

But Walgreens is stressing ties to local healthcare providers, which Amazon doesn’t yet have .