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Some call amazon the boogeyman of retail...and as we reported yesterday...the company is now stalking pharmacies.

Amazon pharmacy customers can order medication or refills and have them delivered to their front door in a couple of days.

As abc 36's christy bollinger reports...it could be a costly prescription for national chain pharmacies and retail...and as we reported yesterday...the company is now stalking pharmacies.

Amazon pharmacy customers can order medication or refills and have them delivered to their front door in a couple of days.

As abc 36's christy bollinger reports...it could be a costly prescription for national chain pharmacies and your local shop.

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Shelley roberts "medications are not t- shirts.

They're not things you just buy from the store, they're things that can truly affect you.

If you receive the wrong size of a t-shirt, that's easily fixed.

If you receive the wrong medication, who are you gonna talk to?"

Grassroots pharmacy owner shelley roberts is worried because she feels amazon patients will just receive medicine...not healthcare.

Shelley "i think where the struggle is going to come is when there's changes, when things are supposed to be disconintued, new things started..

Prescriptions getting lost..

People able to talk to someone."

She expects to lose some customers... those who just need a single prescription filled once a month... but most of her customers need one-on-one help with the several medications...somet hing she says differentiates her from the big box pharmacies.

Roberts says those stores are the ones worried.

The issue c-and-c pharmacy owner chris palutis has with amazon is not with the online pharmacy.... but with its purchase of pill pack... a pharmacy that sorts your medication by dose, times you're supposed to take it... and delivers it to you.

Chris palutis "i think pill pack is going to end up hurting people because people can't keep up with their medication changes and especially the people who need something like pill pack need it because they can't keep up already."

He says a big piece that will be missing for amazon patients is in-person pharmacists.

Christy bollinger, abc 36 news.

Amazon points out that its pharmacy customers have phone and digital access to amazon pharmacists who can consult and answer questions about medications.

All medications require a prescription and amazon won't deliver most opioids.

The amazon pharmacy isn't yet available in kentucky and four other