Is this why AMAZON dumped their plan to sell and distribute pharmaceutical products?
Amazon has shelved a plan to sell drugs to hospitals, and insiders say there are two reasons why
Amazon has shelved plans to sell and distribute pharmaceutical products through Amazon Business, its marketplace for business customers.
The biggest challenges include complexities around selling in bulk to large hospitals and building a logistics network to handle pharma delivery.
Amazon could still get into the pharma space in another way, as it still has multiple teams working on health care, including Alexa and the secretive Grand Challenge team, sometimes referred to as "1492."
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/16/amazon-business-not-selling-drugs-but-other-amazon-groups-might.html