Walgreens Launches Home Delivery Program for Prescriptions

Drug store chain Walgreens will now expand home deliveries for prescriptions nationwide. The company plans to partner with FedEx to deliver prescriptions as soon as the next day for a $4.99 fee, and it also is providing same-day deliveries in several cities including New York, Chicago and Dallas. The Deerfield, Ill., company started offering deliveries in several markets in October 2018.

Walgreens and FedEx began a partnership last year where the drugstore chain started offering package drop-off and pick-up services at several thousand stores.

Rival drugstore chain CVS Health also announced the expansion of a nationwide prescription delivery program last June. They also will deliver other items like allergy medicines, vitamins or household products.


The companies say their delivery services are faster options than mail-order prescription programs that have been around for years.

Retailers have been breaking out more customer-friendly services in recent years to hold Amazon at bay.

The online retailer offers same-day deliveries of goods typically sold in the front end of drugstores, or the area outside the pharmacy. That has hurt store sales for the major drugstore chains, which spent years building nationwide store networks to get closer to consumer homes. Walgreens Boots Alliance and CVS Health both run more than 9,000 US locations.

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