Grocery delivery by Amazon, InstaCart and even the grocers themselves plus meal delivery services like Blue Apron, Hello Fresh and restaurant delivery like Postmates, DoorDash, Uber Eats are reducing foot traffic in supermarkets. What brings shoppers in to the store? Pharmacy.
ScriptCenter, express prescription and OTC pickup, secures valuable pharmacy customers by offering a faster way to drop off and pick up their prescriptions, even when the pharmacy is closed. ScriptCenter is the ideal solution for retail pharmacies to attract and retain customers while increasing store sales, reducing inventory shrink, and optimizing pharmacy hours of operation. ScriptCenter offers the privacy and convenience your customers demand, but unlike mail order or drive-thru, ScriptCenter allows you to maintain valuable in-store foot traffic.
From a recent Supermarket News article:
“An Albertsons Rx customer spends $92 per week versus a non-pharmacy customer, who spends $24 a week, or 3.5 times more. If we take the pharmacy spend out of the equation, the pharmacy customer spends $66 a week in grocery compared to the $24 [of the non-pharmacy customers], or 2.5 times more,” he said. “So we can see how valuable this pharmacy customer is to the grocery network, and with 4,300 convenient pharmacies densely populated in the markets that we’re going to compete in, we’re going to have a fantastic opportunity to use this network to bring lives into our stores.”
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