Prime pills… Call it a prescription subscription. Last week Amazon launched a subscription for unlimited meds. With “RxPass,” 168M Prime members can buy pills and get ’em delivered for $5/month (no insurance needed). RxPass offers 80 meds (think: blood pressure, anxiety, migraines) and targets people with numerous prescriptions. Nearly half of US adults take two or more meds daily, and retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and CVS are scrambling to get a bigger chunk of the lucrative prescription pie. Amazon’s differentiator: offering many drugs at a flat rate.
Living for the jump scares… Moviegoers are seeing dead people and studios are seeing green. Horror flicks are giving big blockbusters a run for their money. Universal Studios’ and Blumhouse’s “M3gan,” which follows a trendy murderous doll, has already raked in $130M at the box office — the latest hit in a series of successful horror releases. “Skinamarink,” an experimental horror with a tiny $15K production budget, earned $1.7M in two weekends. Horror could help boost the recovering movie industry, which is still far from prepandemic levels.