Drugstore.com (DSCM) Announces Alliance with Medco
Drugstore.com, Inc., a leading online retailer of health, beauty, vision, and pharmacy products, today announced a strategic alliance with Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (MHS), the nation’s leading pharmacy benefit manager providing pharmacy benefits to over 60 million Americans. Under the agreement, Drugstore.com will provide non-prescription consumer health products, along with technical development, operation services, fulfillment capabilities, OTC merchandising, and customer care, for a Medco branded online store being offered to Medco members beginning in mid 2009. Drugstore.com Chairman and CEO, Dawn Lepore, commented on the plan. “The alliance supports our strategy to leverage the drugstore.com ecommerce health, beauty and wellness…