Online trade, Amazon becomes a pharmacy in the United States

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November 17, 2020 Seattle-based e-commerce giant announced that it has opened an 'online pharmacy' in the United States, which gives customers the ability to order drugs and scheduled home delivery in a couple of days, just like for purchase of any other product.

Delivery will be on prescription and includes medicines that must be stored at a low temperature such as insulin.

Amazon then takes over a new business, which observers say could shake up the pharmaceutical industry as it did with other economic sectors, from books to toys to food.

Two years ago, the Seattle-based company spent

startup for the automatic shipment of medicines to patients who needed scheduled deliveries.

Amazon said PillPack's business from now on will focus on people with chronic diseases.