This is just Amazon trying to grow their pharmacy business at all costs. What they are doing in this specific example is a good thing, but who knows what the fallout will be.
This is just Amazon trying to grow their pharmacy business at all costs. What they are doing in this specific example is a good thing, but who knows what the fallout will be.
Excellent point. It's easy (in the US, at least) to take the widespread availability of pharmacies in grocery stores, street corners, etc for granted. It's not difficult to see Amazon squeezing the industry enough to make a pharmacy in a grocery store unsustainable.
Rite Aid just bought a beloved local chain and now everyone I know has switched because it’s been run into the ground.
But when a competitor is a behemoth who is able to eat losses until they drive competitors out of business (and has a track record of doing so) so that competition (and customer experience quality) declines in the long run, that's the rare-but-true case of "a new competitor entering the market is bad, actually".