Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B

Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by egyptiankarim on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:38PM (#17418919)

I wonder if Amazon hopes to eventually get into manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. How long before we start to see AmazonBasics versions of Aspirin?

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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by supertrope on Thursday June 28, 2018 @05:14PM (#17420533)

That doesn't seem especially profitable nor a core competency of AMZN. When you see a store branded bottle of ibuprofen, it's just a re-label of their contract manufacturer's pills.

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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by upvotinglurker on Friday June 29, 2018 @10:51AM (#17424840)

Yep. The AmazonBasics brand of aspirin may appear, but it will just be putting their label on the product manufactured by the companies already specialized to manufacture it (as is probably true with a lot of existing AmazonBasics products).

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Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B by AtTheLast on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:12PM (#17420911)

Don't they already do that with the basic care line of products.

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