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Should pharmacy industry worry about Amazon?

August 14, 2017 by Gregg Lipman and Chain Drug Review Amazon, Big Drug Retail, Big Pharma, CBX, chain drug store industry, Gregg Lipman, Jeff Bezos, Whole Foods Market Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Opinion

What would happen to your business if, tomorrow, Amazon bought a major chain like CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens or Rite Aid? Not so long ago, if you put this question to an executive in the chain drug store industry, the response might have been “Well, that’s not going to happen.” But now that Amazon has announced

Does a direct delivery model threaten Rx?

September 25, 2014 by Michael Wise, Vishal Bhandari, Kelsey Christian and Chain Drug Review A.T. Kearney, Big Pharma, direct delivery, direct-to-consumer, health care delivery, Kelsey Christian, Michael Wise, pharmaceutical manufacturers, retail pharmacy, Vishal Bhandari Issue 09-29-2014, Opinion

Are we seeing the first early “green shoots” of a new industry disruptor? Possibly. Big Pharma has started experimenting with direct-to-consumer models to fill prescriptions, effectively circumventing the retail pharmacy. Is the position of neighborhood pharmacies in today’s delivery system secure, or could the pharmacy suffer the same fate as the corner bookstore, replaced by