Amazon to bring same-day prescription deliveries to nearly half of the US next year

Amazon just announced a coming expansion of its same-day prescription delivery service, with 20 more cities and affiliated metro areas entering the program next year. This expansion will open up the feature to nearly half of US residents.

The company said it's currently embedding pharmacies in many of its same-day delivery facilities to allow for the advanced rollout. The service already exists in cities like Miami, Phoenix and Seattle, but next year it'll be coming to Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and around a dozen more national hotspots.

Amazon says that in most cases a customer can order medication by 4PM and receive it at home by 10PM." This is achieved via traditional delivery methods, though the company has been testing prescription delivery drones in Texas.

The delivery service is available via Amazon Pharmacy, which offers free shipments of prescriptions to Prime members. The service first launched in 2020 and has allowed the company to enter the healthcare space in a major way. Amazon also operates a virtual healthcare service, which is available in all 50 states.

The company recently boasted that it has doubled the number of customers it delivers prescriptions to. This number will likely shoot up even higher once the service becomes available in more cities next year.

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