Will Plans to Start Rx Deliveries Affect CVS’s Retail Clinics Strategy?

Will Plans to Start Rx Deliveries Affect CVS’s Retail Clinics Strategy?

Amazon’s apparent plans to get into the pharmaceutical distribution business—the online retailer has already gotten permits that would pave the way in several states—may have pushed CVS to announce plans to start delivering medications the same day they’re prescribed in certain cities, and next-day everywhere early in 2018. The irony is that CVS has sunk untold resources into its retail clinic business, based on drawing more customers into their brick-and-mortar locations. This begs the question …

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