WOONSOCKET, R.I., April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Health
(NYSE:CVS) today announced a partnership with Curbside, a
company perfecting the store pickup experience for retailers and
consumers, to launch CVS Express, a digital solution offering
consumers a new level of seamless convenience. CVS Health is also
investing in Curbside, demonstrating the company's commitment to
driving further innovations that will help customers save time and
money while pursuing a healthier lifestyle.
"Retail pharmacy is an exciting, competitive landscape that is
ripe for digital innovation," said Helena
Foulkes, Executive Vice President, CVS Health and President,
CVS Pharmacy. "This partnership with Curbside allows CVS Health to
offer new and more convenient ways for our customers to shop with
us – ultimately making it easier for them to enjoy a healthy
lifestyle in a way that works best for them."
"We founded Curbside to help make shopping at neighborhood
stores faster and easier than ever before,"
said Jaron Waldman, co-founder and CEO of Curbside. "Our
proprietary location technology ensures seamless, reliable order
handoff at the moment a customer arrives and our console
app powers an efficient pick and pack operation for CVS
Pharmacy colleagues to prepare orders in the store. In
partnership with CVS Health we've created a fast, convenient
new shopping experience that busy CVS Pharmacy customers are going
to love."
CVS Express is the industry's first retail solution that
integrates Curbside's market-leading technology right into the CVS
Pharmacy app. With CVS Express, customers can make mobile, in-app
purchases from their local CVS Pharmacy and have those products
delivered directly to them when they pull up to the store, all in
about one hour – with no markups or added costs for convenience.
Created in less than three months in the CVS Digital Innovation Lab
in partnership with Curbside, CVS Express embodies the digital
mission of CVS Health to make healthy lifestyles more accessible
and convenient for customers nationwide.
"We believe digital tools are the key to making health care
convenient, personal and affordable for our customers, and CVS
Express is a perfect embodiment of our digital mission," said
Brian Tilzer, Senior Vice President
and Chief Digital Officer, CVS Health. "By working closely with our
retail team and partnering with Curbside, who brought
industry-leading technology to our platform, we rapidly developed a
seamless and simple solution that creates a significant time
savings for customers. We are committed to redefining convenience
and this will be one of many steps on that journey."
CVS Health will continue to redefine retail convenience during
2016 and beyond with an investment in Curbside as it develops the
latest technology to evolve the retail shopping experience.
CVS Express is currently available in San Francisco, Charlotte, N.C., and Atlanta, and will begin rolling out to
additional CVS Pharmacy locations later this year. It is
applicable to all front store and over-the-counter items, with no
added cost to the customer for utilizing the service.
For more information about CVS Express, please visit
http://www.cvs.com/mobile/cvs-express/ and join the conversation
using #stayinthecar. For more information about Curbside, please
visit https://shopcurbside.com/retailers/
About the CVS Health
CVS Health is a pharmacy
innovation company helping people on their path to better health.
Through its approximately 9,600 retail pharmacies, more than 1,100
walk-in medical clinics, a leading pharmacy benefits manager with
more than 75 million plan members, a dedicated senior pharmacy care
business serving more than one million patients per year, and
expanding specialty pharmacy services, the Company enables people,
businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and
effective ways. This unique integrated model increases access to
quality care, delivers better health outcomes and lowers overall
health care costs. Find more information about how CVS Health is
shaping the future of health at https://www.cvshealth.com.
About Curbside
Curbside is perfecting the store pickup
experience for both retailers and consumers. Curbside partners with
top retailers to reinvent the local shopping experience for the era
of instant mobile commerce. Its arrival detection software reliably
tells store associates when customers are on approach, and enables
a compelling, 20-second pickup experience for millions of products
across thousands of retail locations. For consumers, Curbside makes
it faster and easier to find, buy and pick up products at local
stores than ever before, with no markup in price. Curbside was
cofounded by Jaron Waldman, who
founded Placebase which was later sold to Apple, and Denis Laprise, who founded Poly9 which was also
acquired by Apple. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.
https://www.shopcurbside.com/
Press Contacts
Erin
Pensa
CVS Pharmacy
T: 401.770.4786
E: Erin.Pensa@CVSHealth.com
Adam Landres-Schnur
Access Emanate for Curbside
T: 415-844-6215
E: alandres-schnur@access-emanate.com
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