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Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger will start selling at-home rapid COVID-19 tests at up to a 35% discount starting this week
The Business Insider ^ | 09 September 2021 | Avery Hartmans

Posted on 09/12/2021 11:28:34 PM PDT by blueplum

The three largest retailers in the US will soon start offering at-home COVID-19 rapid tests at a sharply reduced price. ...

...Those retailers will sell at-home rapid tests at-cost for the next three months, meaning they'll cost up to 35% less both in stores and online. ...

... Medicaid is required to make at-home COVID tests free for beneficiaries....

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: amazon; ccpvirus; covid19; covidtestkits; covidtests; kroger; medicare; walmart
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Don't know the details but I'd guess you show your medicare card to get a free one?
1 posted on 09/12/2021 11:28:34 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum
Me: Gee, I feel fine. I must have covid. I'll go pay for a test kit.

Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger: Ka-Ching!!!

2 posted on 09/12/2021 11:33:13 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: blueplum

Article says Medicaid, not Medicare, You know, the free program for slackers not the one that was earned through a life time of work and contributions.


3 posted on 09/12/2021 11:51:35 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: blueplum

Has anyone reported the actual price?
Saying that something costs 35% and not mentioning anything else is meaningless.


4 posted on 09/13/2021 12:00:41 AM PDT by nosf40
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To: Veggie Todd

So, is there weird microscopic crap on the “at home tests”, by chance?


5 posted on 09/13/2021 12:06:07 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: nosf40

I see 3 different ones from $14-26.


6 posted on 09/13/2021 12:07:25 AM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: nosf40

I just did a quick look at walmart and the best known (to me anyway) brand and it was $14. There were a few other brands I didn’t check, tho. So 1/3 off that.


7 posted on 09/13/2021 12:08:36 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: nosf40

Same thought here. WM has ones starting at 14 dollars but they’re out of stock. Some are 24 dollars. Then there the ones that range from 99 to 124 dollars.


8 posted on 09/13/2021 12:10:04 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (`)
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I’ll spend my money more wisely by purchasing an in-home pregnancy test. 😈


9 posted on 09/13/2021 12:48:23 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: blueplum

Reduced prices because they don’t work.


10 posted on 09/13/2021 1:23:09 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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But theyre accepted by the cruise lines...

Why ???

Because the cruise lines are bending over backwards to make things easy for the so called vaccinated even giving out tests at the pier while sticking it repeatedly to the unvaxxed...

Any unvaxxed allowed to cruise cant use the rapid test ...they have to submit the negative results of the PCR/NAAT test...

After all the vaxxed are so speshall and privileged dontcha know...


11 posted on 09/13/2021 1:58:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Veggie Todd

It’s being sold at cost.


12 posted on 09/13/2021 2:13:18 AM PDT by Dave W
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I’ll spend my money more wisely by purchasing an in-home pregnancy test.

Even the 99 cent ones are likely more accurate on the likes of you.
13 posted on 09/13/2021 2:20:23 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: blueplum

Chiden is making them sell them at cost and they aren’t really an at home test. One must send them in with all the person’s info.

It’s not like a home pregnancy test.


14 posted on 09/13/2021 2:32:19 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism ruins everything it touches. NUTS - Not United Troubled States.)
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To: blueplum

I will only spend money on food ammunition or firearms, thank you.


15 posted on 09/13/2021 2:44:15 AM PDT by exnavy (grow some thick skin, i do not care for whiners)
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Anyone know if you need an app on your cell phone to use these kits?


16 posted on 09/13/2021 2:52:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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That doesn’t mean Wally isn’t making money from selling them.


17 posted on 09/13/2021 2:53:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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From the Walgreens website for one of these test kits:

"This test has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization for self-testing without the need to ship samples to a lab or for a prescription from your healthcare provider."

No statement on accuracy is provided.

"This test does not provide a documented test result that can be displayed when traveling."

Sorry, no papers to show the Kovid Kops.

"The BinaxNOW COVID-19 Self-Test is an antigen test that only detects an active infection. This test cannot detect past infections."

For me, that would be the only reason to get one of these tests.

"BinaxNOW can be a key tool in preventing the spread of COVID-19 alongside vaccination."

Get the jab or die!

18 posted on 09/13/2021 3:06:51 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake election, fake president, real deaths.)
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Odds are these kits are made in China so there’s the possibility the swabs are contaminated with Covid. The perfect biological weapon.


19 posted on 09/13/2021 3:22:13 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: blueplum

Medicare or Medicaid makes it free? Big difference.


20 posted on 09/13/2021 3:25:15 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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