Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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Amazon is launching same-day delivery of prescription medications in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area. Amazon rolled out its online pharmacy service in 2020, allowing customers to order prescription medications for home delivery.
The e-commerce giant said on Tuesday that it’s rolling out same-day delivery of prescription medications in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area.
The prescriptions are offered via Amazon’s online pharmacy service, which launched in 2020. Amazon Pharmacy, born out of the company’s 2018 acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack, allows customers to order prescription medications for home delivery, with free shipping for Prime members. To speed up deliveries, Amazon said it’s using new, smaller facilities, stocked with the most common prescription medications for acute conditions. The locations are equipped to process a prescription “within a matter of minutes rather than hours or days,” the company said.
The company said it’s dispatching e-bikes to handle some Amazon Pharmacy deliveries in New York. Amazon has been experimenting with e-cargo delivery bikes, which can speed up deliveries and cut down on emissions, in the city for the past several years.
Source: NBC New York
