{"id":46515,"date":"2017-10-09T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46515"},"modified":"2017-10-09T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T07:09:50","slug":"will-amazon-sell-drugs-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/will-amazon-sell-drugs-online.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Amazon sell drugs online?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Will Amazon sell drugs online?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Will Amazon sell drugs online?:- A report suggests Amazon wants to be a pharmacy &#8212; and is deciding whether it should.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Can you imagine a future where Amazon is your pharmacy &#8212; where a single click or a simple voice command could have prescription medicine winging their way to your door?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">According to a CNBC report, the giant retailer is about to decide whether to make a move on the prescription drug market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Don&#8217;t get too excited just yet. Even if the report is true and Amazon decides to dive in, the first step probably won&#8217;t be drones dropping pills from the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">According to a Goldman Sachs analyst report from earlier this year &#8212; which predicted Amazon might make such a move &#8212; it could be something as boring as delivering drugs to existing pharmacies first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Either way, it starts with Amazon reinforcing or building a new drug supply chain, which could take years. CNBC notes that Amazon&#8217;s first move would be to hire supply chain experts &#8212; which gives you some idea how early along the effort might be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Speaking of Amazon building or replacing supply chains, you might be interested to read this report from Bloomberg today, which details how Amazon could soon rely on UPS and FedEx a bit less as it continues to reinforce its own shipping network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">How long before Amazon delivers all the packages, I wonder?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">According to CNBC&#8217;s source, Amazon plans to make a decision about entering the drug sales business before Thanksgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Amazon declined to comment about prescription drug sales, but offered this statement regarding the Bloomberg report: &#8220;We are using the same carrier partners to offer this program that we&#8217;ve used for years, including UPS, USPS and FedEx.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/will-amazon-sell-prescription-drugs-online\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/will-amazon-sell-drugs-online.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Amazon sell drugs online? Will Amazon sell drugs online?:- A report suggests Amazon wants to be a pharmacy &#8212; and is deciding whether it should. Can you imagine a future where Amazon is your pharmacy &#8212; where a single click or a simple voice command could have prescription medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":46524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[73213,73209,73212,73210,73208,73214,73211,73215],"class_list":["post-46515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon-delivers-packages","tag-amazon-is-your-pharmacy","tag-own-shipping-network","tag-prescription-drug-market","tag-report-suggests-amazon","tag-ups","tag-ups-and-fedex","tag-usps-and-fedex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}