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Contestable markets: Amazon buys online pharmacy PillPack
Geoff Riley
29th June 2018
Shares in pharmacy retail chains plunged when news broke that Amazon is entering the online pharmacy market with the acquisition of PillPack. Creative destruction at work in the retail space. PillPack provides pre-sorted doses of medications and home delivery - exactly the sort of scaled product area that Amazon would be interested in.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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