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Costco Trusts AI to Reorder Drugs. Most Retailers Won’t

Source: PYMNTS.com•November 13, 2026

A pharmacy that runs out of a drug loses the prescription. A pharmacy that overpays a supplier loses the margin. Costco put artificial intelligence (AI) on both problems. The warehouse retailer’s pharmacy inventory system now compares prescription drug prices across vendors and “autonomously and predictively reorders i

A pharmacy that runs out of a drug loses the prescription. A pharmacy that overpays a supplier loses the margin. Costco put artificial intelligence (AI) on both problems. The warehouse retailer’s pharmacy inventory system now compares prescription drug prices across vendors and “autonomously and predictively reorders i

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