Amazon’s pharmacy will offer same-day delivery in L.A. and NYC and plans to expand

Amazon Pharmacy, which launched in 2020, announced Tuesday that it was expanding same-day delivery to Los Angeles and New York. Amazon will soon offer same-day delivery of several prescription medications in Los Angeles and New York, yet another example of the online shopping giant’s bet on consumers’ growing dependence on ease and speed. As Amazon Pharmacy expands into the nation’s two biggest markets, Angelenos and New Yorkers will be able to order several common medications, including those used to manage high blood pressure, diabetes and the flu, online and have them delivered on their doorstep within hours, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Amazon plans to offer the service in more than a dozen U.S. cities by the end of the year, the company said, noting that it already offers same-day medication delivery in a handful of cities, including Phoenix, Seattle and College Station, Texas, where it said deliveries are made within an hour by drone. When it comes to purchasing medications, he said, many Americans care primarily about price transparency, and “convenience is just good PR.” “It’s about, ‘Am I paying the fair price for the drug?’” said Patel, who worked on a study that found that at least 1 in 5 prescriptions for many commonly prescribed generic medications would have been cheaper if the person had paid out of pocket and used discount cards from places such as Amazon and GoodRx instead of going through their insurance plans.