In addition to the next-day service, the company is also offering same day delivery in certain markets, which Walgreens says it will be expanding in the coming year. Of course, traditional in-store and drive through pick-up services continue as well, for those who prefer," Smulevitz explained. "Following a simple process on their mobile device, patients can prepay for their medication and define their delivery or pickup location. To access Walgreens Express, patients just need to be able to receive text message notifications they can join the service by texting JoinRx to 21525. Patients will get a text when their prescriptions are ready and they can then choose between a home delivery option or express pickup in-store. The new next-day service is called Walgreens Express, and users will be charged a fee of $4.99 to get their drugs delivered to their door the day after they order them, though this only applies to orders placed by 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Nationwide home delivery with FedEx is a key driver in our efforts to develop and expand omni-channel capabilities as we evolve our model to meet customers changing needs and expectations." "Our goal is to make filling prescriptions as fast and easy as possible for patients. "This announcement builds upon the collaboration and our existing platform, where FedEx team members are in our stores multiple times per day, so the handling and delivery of prescriptions will be a very efficient and fast process, consistent across the nation," Morry Smulevitz, VP of Business and Operations Communications at Walgreens, told me. Now the deliveries will be made faster than they were previously. This is not the first time that Walgreens and FedEx have partnered last year they unveiled a collaboration to offer FedEx drop off and pick up at more than 7,000 Walgreens stores across the country. Not to be outdone, now Walgreens has struck a similar partnership for its prescription delivery service, announcing on Thursday that it has partnered with FedEx to deliver drugs to patients next-day. Not only do you have startups raising funding, such as Alto, which just this week raised a $50 million funding round, and Capsule, which also raised $50 million over the summer, but you also have the big players in the space also making moves. CVS, for example, teamed up with the United States Postal Service earlier this year to offer home delivery of prescription drugs. There seems to be a race right now in the pharma space to offer the fastest on-demand delivery option. The company is competing against the likes of Amazon, which bought PillPack for $1B this summer
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