Healthcare: Could A Reckoning at Rite Aid Spark an Amazon Acquisition?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After Walgreens' abandoned plans to buy it lock-stock-and-barrel, Rite Aid shares are crashing. Does this give Amazon.com the moment it's been waiting for to disrupt the prescription drug market?
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| 0:17.8 | It's July 5th and I'm your health care show host Christine Harjus. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm on the phone today with Todd Campbell a fool.com health care specialist |
| 0:24.4 | Todd how was your independence day? He was great I was actually up in northern |
| 0:29.6 | Maine in the quaintest little village and they did a parade that was just basically |
| 0:35.8 | people walking down the street led by a drum major to a brass band. |
| 0:39.7 | That sounds awesome. It was it was so down home. Was there anybody around to watch the parade or was the whole town in it? |
| 0:47.0 | There was at least 15 people on the sidelines. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay, solid, you know, good turnout. |
| 0:52.0 | Yep, yep, but it was a very nice 4th of July. |
| 0:57.0 | Didn't get to see any fireworks though, how about you? |
| 1:00.0 | Oh, I saw, I saw enough for the both of us. |
| 1:02.0 | I mean, I live in D.C DC so you kind of have to right? |
| 1:04.3 | Oh I could hear them from afar but you know those dreaded pine trees they were blocking my view. |
| 1:10.0 | Oh man well maybe next year come visit HQ and we'll watch some fireworks. |
| 1:15.0 | There we go. So I don't know about you, but I'm actually very happy to be back after the long weekend. |
| 1:20.0 | So I'm kind of happy to just be back in the office and in the studio and so for the show |
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