Walmart to deliver prescriptions nationwide in as little as 30 minutes

Walmart will statesman delivering prescriptions crossed nan U.S. early adjacent year, arsenic nan retailing elephantine strives to support gait pinch rival Amazon successful competing for wellness attraction dollars. 

Walmart's caller work includes caller prescriptions and refills, which customers tin person on pinch groceries and different products, nan Bentonville, Arkansas-based institution announced connected Tuesday. Prescriptions will beryllium delivered successful arsenic small arsenic 30 minutes and should beryllium disposable for complete 86% of American households, according to Walmart.

The offering is already unrecorded successful Arkansas, Missouri, New York, Nevada, South Carolina and Wisconsin, and is expected to beryllium disposable successful 49 states by nan extremity of January, reaching tens of millions of customers. 

"If you're sick, we tin present nan basal medicine on pinch everything other you request to consciousness better: cough drops, a heating pad, broad and orangish juice. Walmart's size, resources and expertise group it isolated from different retailers." Tom Ward, executive vice president and main ecommerce officer, Walmart U.S., said successful a statement.

The caller offering will travel astatine nary costs for customers of Walmart+, nan retailer's paid rank program. The work will different costs $9.95 per order. Prescriptions will beryllium filled astatine Walmart stores and delivered to homes successful tamper-proof packaging. 

Walmart, which operates almost 4,600 in-store pharmacies, besides offers medicine supplier transportation done message order. Notably, medications that request to beryllium refrigerated, arsenic good arsenic controlled narcotics specified arsenic opioids, are not included successful nan treatments disposable for location delivery.

Walmart's effort to grow successful online wellness comes 2 weeks aft Amazon said it would unfastened pharmacies successful 20 caller cities crossed nan U.S. successful 2025, pinch nan ecommerce institution expecting to connection same-day medicine work to astir half of its U.S. customers by nan extremity of adjacent year. "

CVS and Walgreens already connection same-day location transportation for medicine medications.

Pharmacies, some independent locations and unit chains, are closing astir nan country amid debased reimbursement rates for drugstore attraction arsenic good arsenic debased dispensing fees for Medicaid enrollees. 

Nearly half of U.S. counties person communities much than 10 miles from a pharmacy, according to a study published successful August by nan Journal of American Medical Association. In summation to organization drugstores disappearing, awesome supplier shop chains specified as CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens person closed hundreds of drugstore locations crossed nan country.  

Most recently, Walgreens past week said it would adjacent 1,200 stores complete nan adjacent 3 years, citing debased supplier reimbursement rates arsenic 1 facet down nan overhaul. 

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