Home Health Care News May 2, 2024
Andrew Donlan

Health care is hard – an idea reinforced this week when Walmart (NYSE: WMT) announced the abandonment of its previously grand health care ambitions.

There may be a day when the country’s largest retailers, including Walmart, become major players in home-based care delivery, but today is not that day. And other recent developments suggest tomorrow won’t be either.

Over the past half decade, retailers such as Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA), CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Walmart and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) have jumped head first into home-focused health care.

Each company teased an entrance into some sort of home-based health care, then moved quickly. One initiative after another was announced.

But Walmart and Amazon – two of...

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