The $10 drugs cover 350 generic medicines for 90-day prescriptions at Wal-Mart, Neighborhood Market and Sam's Club drugstores across the U.S., except in North Dakota where Wal-Mart has no in-store drugstores. The women's drugs, including treatments for breast cancer and hormone deficiency, are sold at $9. Meanwhile, prices for over 1,000 over-the-counter medication are lowered to $4 or less.
The discounts is the third phase of the number one retail chain's efforts to help American consumers cope up with rising costs of medicine. Since it was launched in 2006, the program has saved U.S. consumers more than $1 billion.
John Agwunobi, senior vice president of Wal-Mart, said the medicine discounts benefits not just the consumers but even the giant retail chain. "This is the time for us now to begin building capacity... It offers (customers) employers potential savings. It offers the customers significant savings. It also offers us the ability to add capacity to our pharmacies without adding people," Agwunobi said in a statement, quoted by USA Today.
