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shipping price is as good or better than Wal-Mart’s,
they’ll let us have the sale,” he said. “So when you go
to buy whatever it is, if we sell that product, it will say
‘purchased and packed from Pharmapacks.com.’ Wal-
Mart puts our name, prominently, on the transaction.
It tells the consumer that Pharmapacks.com is the ac-
tual retailer and a trusted retailer of Wal-Mart.”
Recently, BVM checked in with Vagenas to see how his
business has progressed over the past year. The re-
sult: very nicely, indeed.
“Since last year, we’ve added three more distributors
and we have about seven more right now in the works,
so that’s a total of about 15 distributors we’ll be add-
ing by the end of the year,” Vagenas begins. Recent-
ly, the company launched its services on Sears.com
and Newegg.com. “Newegg is a pretty large market-
place that’s online. It’s mostly electronics but they’re
branching out into other categories,” he says. “We’ve
also landed a contract with Fresh Direct, which would
most likely be live in quarter one of next year and that
will be a very good contract for us. Fresh Direct is one
of the largest e-grocers in New York and we’re going
to be providing a health and beauty category to their
