Forbes September 20, 2018
News that online retailer Amazon plans to open up to 3,000 “cashierless” stores by 2021 is being billed by some as a threat to traditional brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy chains like CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart.
But Amazon has yet to provide any indication it’s entering the business of providing face-to-face healthcare to patients, which is increasingly the strategy being pursued by traditional drugstore chains.
Walgreens, which operates 9,800 drugstores in all 50 U.S. states, is testing myriad healthcare partnerships and this summer launched a digital marketplace that links its customers to medical care providers and their prices beyond services inside the drugstores. And CVS Health is touting its relationships with medical care providers and the potential to add...
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