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May 10, 2019 at 05:53 PM
Worries that Amazon.com Inc. will crush the retail pharmacy market can be shelved for now. That’s the view according to survey results from Evercore ISI.
(Related: The Retail Apocalypse Now Threatens Drugstores, Too)
The findings showed that just 7% of U.S. households ordered over-the-counter drugs online instead of visiting a brick-and-mortar store, the survey of 2,500 adult consumers revealed. While online sales of over-the-counter medicine sales rose by 21 basis points from 2017, the growth is at a considerably slower rate than other industries and offers a glimmer of hope for the likes of CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
The lack of excitement from consumers is “great news for drug stores, where investors have been worried about Amazon entering the market for several years,” possibly crushing the retail pharmacy market, analysts led by Ross Muken and Elizabeth Anderson wrote in a separate report.
