Amazon's Consumer Health Expansion Comes With Prices Sliced
Executive Summary
E-commerce giant expands consumer health footprint in past six months with launches of generic OTC drug product lines at prices in some cases significantly undercutting competitors. Primary Health and SoundHealth OTC drugs range from a few dollars less to about half the cost of brand name equivalents.
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