Retail giants like Amazon, Walgreens, and Best Buy stormed into healthcare with bold promises—only to find the system far more complex than expected. As reported by Modern Healthcare and analyzed by Advisory Board, efforts to scale clinical care have hit hard walls: rising costs, reimbursement hurdles, and the unforgiving pace of quarterly earnings.
Some, like Walmart, have already bowed out. Others remain, but the question is no longer if they can disrupt healthcare—it’s whether they can do it patiently and profitably, over years, not quarters.