Re:This Is How Amazon Could Invade the Pharmacy Business
by dannyw on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:05AM
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How many people get weekly refills? I️ thought monthly would be a lot more efficient and common?
Re:This Is How Amazon Could Invade the Pharmacy Business
by Turing_Machine on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @04:50AM
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That's not the point. It doesn't have to be weekly, or even monthly. Whatever the frequency is, Amazon is somewhat likely to already have a package headed to the customer within that interval (much more likely that a dedicated prescription store, certainly).
The advantage is actually greater with less-frequent refills, as the probability of having another package they can piggyback on within an acceptable window becomes higher the less frequent the refills are.
Well, the obvious one is that Express Scripts probably isn't already sending you a package of other stuff every week or so to which a bottle of pills could be added at little or no increased cost, nor do they likely have the clout with shippers that Amazon does.
Yeah, not everyone gets an Amazon package every week, but enough people do that it's going to add up.