Costco now delivering prescription drugs

The retail giant has partnered with INSTACART to include pharmacy items in delivery services.


In order to provide an even more convenient online shopping experience, especially for a period when more and more buyers are turning to online delivery services for basic necessities,Costco has partnered with the provision of prescription drugs to millions of Americans.

The pilot program, which has started to select California and Washington State sites last year, has now been deployed in all stalls of wholesale Costco clubs with some emergency to respond to requests for new shopping habits. course of thePandemic of Covid-19.

If you have been forced to go to crowded pharmacies, just to retrieve your prescription, you can easily rest. That's right,You can now get your prescription drugs from COSTCO pharmacies delivered with yourCOSTCO command. The service was launched in nearly 200 Costco wholesale club sites across Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New York, Washington and Columbia District, with imminent projects for Develop in all locations of national warehouse clubs in the coming months.

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Instacart, already a home delivery partner in Costco regarding the grocery store, says they are looking for shopping for all the necessities of the cost easier than ever. "We want to continue to bring all the aisles of the online grocery store to better serve customers, "said Instacart President Nilam Ganceren.

CostCo Club members will be able to take advantage of this service when they receive an alert from their Costco pharmacy on their order becoming available. Once planning their delivery of pharmacy, they will be able to add other articles from the Costco grocery store and households to order before checking. The delivered medicine will arrive in inviolable bags and guests will have to present a valid identity card to the state of the state at the reception.

The partnership marks the entry of instaciards in prescription drug delivery services - they already provide articles from Walgreens, CVS and aid pharmacies to Rite, but those do not include prescription drugs. Costco currently operates less than 800 pharmacies in the United States, compared to CVs and Walgreens, with about 10,000 locations each. The convenience of domestic delivery for prescription drugs gives Costco a competitive advantage for pharmacy deliveries during the coronavirus pandemic.

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