(AP) — CVS Health is spreading its curbside pickup service to drugstores nationwide this year.
The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain has partnered with the technology firm Curbside to create CVS Express, a program that lets shoppers buy products with an app and then pick them up about an hour later at a nearby store, where an employee will deliver them to the car.
CVS Health launched the free curbside pickup service last December at a dozen stores in San Francisco and has since expanded it to Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina. The company currently offers curbside pick-up services at 361 stores but has room to grow with more 7,900 retail locations nationwide. It expects to roll out the program in a majority of those stores nationally by year-end.