Walmart announced this week that it’slaunching a same-day prescription delivery service.

It will allow customers to combine general store items and medication in one at-your-door order.

Insurance plans will be applied to the order just like in-store, Walmart said in itsnews release.

Why are so many pharmacies closing?

Reports of pharmacies closing have been making waves.

Those reports don’t account for the independent, smaller drugstores that may have closed as well.

not medication) from big retailers like Amazon and Walmart.

Rural areas and communities with less access to health care may be hit hardest by a pharmacy desert.