Amazon health products

Amazon is expanding their product line to health products and prescriptions.

How will local pharmacies cope?

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Amazon is continuing to expand its business as people can now order insulin and inhalers.

Amazon is also starting to fill common prescriptions as it makes its official entrance into pharmaceuticals .

New 12's brian armstrong examines what that means for local pharmacies.

Amazon is known for delivering right to your door and starting today you can get some of your prescriptions right to you but what does that mean for local pharmacies.

I've been here for 15 years and every single year there's supposedly something that's going to eat into the business and your local pharmacy pharmacist phillip smith with access family pharmacy says he doesn't expect amazon entering pharmaceutical sales to hurt access family's business.

I think people do realize we can play a significant role in your medical life.

Smith adds the biggest selling point amazon is advertising it a pill pack.

Amazon puts all of your pills in a case and labels it with dates and times of when to take the medicine.

He says this is something access pharmacy has been doing for close to a decade.

To help keep people more adherent to their medications which if you're using a system like this it does it does do that but you know once again you can get that at your local pharmacy.

So it's nothing new they didn't reinvent the wheel they're just advertising it.

Smith says this doesn't change anything as a way for people to access medication ... but is does cut your immediate access to a pharmacist.

If you do have a real issue we can be your biggest advocate getting something fixed rather than spending an hour hour and a half on the phone trying to get a pharmacist on the line.

Brian armstrong