Metro by metro
The leading pharmacy chains in every Alabama metro area
Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Walgreens leads in 9 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 3 metro areas. Against their share in Alabama as a whole, Walgreens stands out in 7 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 5 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Walgreens
Relative #1 in 7 metro areas
Mobile, AL 1.5× · Huntsville, AL 1.2× · Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL 1.3× · Dothan, AL 1.3× · Decatur, AL 1.1× · Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL 1× · Anniston-Oxford, AL 1.2×
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CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in 5 metro areas
Birmingham, AL 1× · Montgomery, AL 1.6× · Tuscaloosa, AL 1.6× · Auburn-Opelika, AL 1.5× · Gadsden, AL 0.9×
Not enough tracked stores: Columbus, GA-AL (AL part)
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Walgreens
#1 in 9 metro areas
Birmingham, AL · Mobile, AL · Huntsville, AL · Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL · Dothan, AL · Decatur, AL · Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL · Anniston-Oxford, AL · Gadsden, AL
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CVS Pharmacy
#1 in 3 metro areas
Montgomery, AL · Tuscaloosa, AL · Auburn-Opelika, AL
Not enough tracked stores: Columbus, GA-AL (AL part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Alabama compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Alabama as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Alabama and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Alabama is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Alabama. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked pharmacy chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Martin's Pharmacy and Hometown Pharmacy sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Martin's Pharmacy | ▲2 | +18.0% |
| 2 | Hometown Pharmacy | - | +2.1% |
| 3 | Dalton Pharmacy | - | +0.4% |
| 4 | Walgreens | - | -2.8% |
| 5 | CVS Pharmacy | - | -2.9% |
| 6 | Jackson Apothecary | - | -3.0% |
| 7 | Buy-Rite Drugs | - | -9.2% |
| 8 | Alaco Discount Pharmacy | - | -11.7% |
| 9 | Adams Drugs | - | -12.9% |
| 10 | Jones Drugs | ▼1 | -17.0% |
| 11 | Star Discount Pharmacy | ▼1 | -24.2% |
| 12 | Whitaker Drugs | - | -28.0% |
| 13 | Boone's Pharmacy | - | -31.2% |
- Walgreens
- CVS Pharmacy
- Adams Drugs
- Mills Pharmacy
- Specialty Pharmacy
- Brooklere Pharmacy
- Weldon Pharmacy
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
775 tracked store locations in Alabama. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 359 of the 775 stores (46%); 347 of the 379 tracked chains have a single store here. 10% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are pharmacies, against 9% across the United States.
- Walgreens (146)
- CVS Pharmacy (191)
- Adams Drugs (9)
- Mills Pharmacy (7)
- Specialty Pharmacy (1)
- Brooklere Pharmacy (3)
- Weldon Pharmacy (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 CVS Pharmacy 191
- 2 Walgreens 146
- 3 Adams Drugs 9
- 4 Mills Pharmacy 7
- 5 Dalton Pharmacy 6
- 6 Alaco Discount Pharmacy 4
- 7 Star Discount Pharmacy 4
- 8 Jones Drugs 4
- 9 Jackson Apothecary 3
- 10 Hometown Pharmacy 3
- 11 Whitaker Drugs 3
- 12 The Drug Store 3
- 13 Genoa Healthcare 3
- 14 Boone's Pharmacy 3
- 15 Buy-Rite Drugs 3
- 16 Martin's Pharmacy 3
- 17 Brooklere Pharmacy 3
- 18 Bryan Pharmacy 2
- 19 Massey Drugs 2
- 20 Cleburne Pharmacy 2
- 21 Village Discount Drugs 2
- 22 Family Pharmacy 2
- 23 Royal Pharmacy 2
- 24 Pay-Less Pharmacy 2
- 25 Camp Drugs 2
- 26 Mike's Pharmacy 2
- 27 Carroll Pharmacy 2
- 28 Tuscaloosa Drug 2
- 29 Medicine Shoppe 2
- 30 Harbin Discount Pharmacy 2
- 31 Center Drugs 2
- 32 Jack's Discount Drugs 1
- 33 The Apothecary 1
- 34 Collinsville Drugs 1
- 35 Grant Pharmacy 1
- 36 AuBurn Pharmacy 1
- 37 Carbon Hill Drugs 1
- 38 Johnson Rx Pharmacy 1
- 39 PharmSouth Pharmacy 1
- 40 Cleveland Discount Pharmacy 1
- 41 Specialty Pharmacy 1
- 42 Bynum Drug 1
- 43 Limestone Drug 1
- 44 Sam Glover Drug 1
- 45 Physicians Apothecary 1
- 46 Big C Drugs 1
- 47 After Hours Rx Inc. 1
- 48 Madison Health Mart Pharmacy 1
- 49 Pell City Pharmacy 1
- 50 Midtown Pharmacy 1
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