Amazon enters the pharmacy business -

[Cedric_Eff]

Amazon can't even prevent Chinese counterfeiters from selling phony merchandise on their website. How are they going to stop the spread of illegal substances flooding in from China? Or is that the point?

I think this is like a Whole Foods situation.

 

[3119967d0c]

Amazon can't even prevent Chinese counterfeiters from selling phony merchandise on their website. How are they going to stop the spread of illegal substances flooding in from China? Or is that the point?

Aren't most generics consumed in the US made in India? You're better off with Chinese counterfeits.

 

[DuckSucker]

If Jeff Bezos doesnt make antidepressants an OTC pill, Im gonna cry

 

[Fugax]

Woah.... Amazon™ drones can finally deliver Soma to my Amazon™ shipping container home! This makes living in Amazon™ Residential District #4 all worth it! I wouldn't expect that kind of service from Disney™ Living Sector #39... Epic win!

Thank you, Cyber-Bezos!

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Weren't they already involved with that pill pack company?

 

[haurchefant]

On the surface it could be a good thing because maybe it'll help bust prices since Amazon is big enough to eat some big losses so long as they run other businesses out on the clock but there's no way Amazon wouldn't fuck this up so...

 

[Conn4618]

It worries me just how much you can get from Amazon. First books, then goods, then groceries, now drugs. Coming this decade, I can see them setting up their own Walmart esque store, where you can "buy all your ever day home goods, now without the computer". As if people weren't already doing that, but it'll be new somehow once Amazon does it.

 

[Toolbox]

It worries me just how much you can get from Amazon. First books, then goods, then groceries, now drugs. Coming this decade, I can see them setting up their own Walmart esque store, where you can "buy all your ever day home goods, now without the computer". As if people weren't already doing that, but it'll be new somehow once Amazon does it.

Weren't the already attempting this but with stores where the items you grab are automatically checked out and paid for through your amazon account when you leave?

 

[Conn4618]

Weren't the already attempting this but with stores where the items you grab are automatically checked out and paid for through your amazon account when you leave?

Yes, it was a small scale grocery store in Seattle. The issue I think they're going to try and solve is how to do something like that at the scale of a Walmart. That would be crazy. Imagine being able to walk in and out of a Walmart without ever having to wait in line to pay.

 

[Toolbox]

Yes, it was a small scale grocery store in Seattle. The issue I think they're going to try and solve is how to do something like that at the scale of a Walmart. That would be crazy. Imagine being able to walk in and out of a Walmart without ever having to wait in line to pay.

If it weren't Amazon it'd be great, except for the fact that you'll always need to have accounts for every store you go to. It'll also be a man in the middle attack nightmare regardless of who does it.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Weren't the already attempting this but with stores where the items you grab are automatically checked out and paid for through your amazon account when you leave?

Yea, I've been in an Amazon go..It was a glorified airport style convenience store..I just did it to say that I did. The fiesty diet cherry cokes were 80 cents though.

 

[HymanHive]

Amazon have recently said they will relax their marijuana laws. How long before Amazon start delivering weed?

 

[Picklechu]

Yes, it was a small scale grocery store in Seattle. The issue I think they're going to try and solve is how to do something like that at the scale of a Walmart. That would be crazy. Imagine being able to walk in and out of a Walmart without ever having to wait in line to pay.

Late, but Walmart is testing this with Walmart+.