I was about post a comment making that same point.
With so many different types of businesses already offering pharmacy, I don't see how Walgreen's, CVS and Rite Aid can remain profitable. Their stores aren't Walmart size, but they are large stores where the pharmacy takes up a small amount of floor space and the rest of the store offers merchandise available at significantly lower prices at Walmart and other retailers.
Doesn't look like a good business model to me, and even less so with Amazon and others making serious efforts to grab a slice of the future pharmacy pie.
Well, many people like myself use Walgreens for prescriptions cause they are closer than driving 10 miles to a Wal Mart.
Yes the stuff there is higher but they have sales too. Many times I just want an item or two and I don’t mind paying a little more NOT to go to Wal Mart. It was never meant to be a grocery store any more than the gas station stores which are even higher.
“Doesn’t look like a good business model to me, and even less so with Amazon and others making serious efforts to grab a slice of the future pharmacy pie.”
and not just pharmacy, but non-prescription medical supplies of all kinds: amazon carries high-end brand name ER bandaging supplies that none of the retail pharmacy stores bother to carry, and in bulk quantity at that ... except for the random box of band-aides, peroxide and isopropyl alcohol, i don’t bother to shop any were except amazon for bandaging ...