Amazon scores a new coup and buy for $1 billion PillPack, online pharmacy that delivers pre-dosed medicines to your home. Beaten, this time, the global retail giant Walmart, interested in the start-up born five years ago. The impact of the new operation is being felt on Wall Street where the shares of rivals Wallgreens Boots Alliance and CVS suffer heavy losses.
The operation, announced by Jeff Bezos, could be concluded in the second half of 2018 and would allow Amazon to enter a rich sector, valued at 400 billion dollars. The "dangerousness", from the point of view of the competitors, of Bezos' operation lies precisely in the extreme capillarity in the deliveries of medicines, dosed according to the doctor's prescriptions, which thus arrive directly at the customers' homes.
Always Amazon, it is no coincidence, launchedAnd the same theofficial lunge also against Ups and FedEx. In fact, the e-commerce giant is working on the creation of its home delivery network in the United States: the giant has in fact invited small entrepreneurs to create delivery companies with up to 100 drivers and the possibility of leasing 20 and its 40 trucks.
The initiative represents a further push by the e-commerce giant to gain greater control over its deliveries and cope with the boom in online orders that UPS, FedEx and the US Post Office are unable to handle. According to analysts, more than four of every $10 spent online in the United States goes to shopping on Amazon: the result is that the number of its deliveries exceeded one billion last year.
