Metro by metro
The leading pharmacy chains in every Arkansas metro area
Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Walgreens leads in all 5 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Arkansas as a whole, Walgreens stands out in 3 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Walgreens
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Fayetteville, AR 1.2× · Fort Smith, AR-OK (AR part) 1.1× · Hot Springs, AR 1.1×
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CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in Little Rock, AR, 1.2× its share in Arkansas
Not enough tracked stores: Memphis, TN-MS-AR (AR part) · Texarkana, TX-AR (AR part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Jonesboro, AR
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Walgreens
#1 in all 5 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Memphis, TN-MS-AR (AR part) · Texarkana, TX-AR (AR part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Arkansas compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Arkansas as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Arkansas 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 Arkansas is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Arkansas. 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. Doctor's Orders Pharmacy and CVS Pharmacy sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doctor's Orders Pharmacy | - | +7.7% |
| 2 | CVS Pharmacy | - | +6.8% |
| 3 | Cornerstone Pharmacy | - | +2.9% |
| 4 | Walgreens | - | -2.7% |
| 5 | Heartland Pharmacy | - | -4.4% |
| 6 | Collier Drug | - | -8.7% |
- Walgreens
- CVS Pharmacy
- Cornerstone Pharmacy
- Heartland Pharmacy
- West Side Pharmacy
- The Pharmacy at Wellington
- Stanley Pharmacy
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
339 tracked store locations in Arkansas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 124 of the 339 stores (37%); 192 of the 207 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are pharmacies, against 9% across the United States.
- Walgreens (81)
- CVS Pharmacy (22)
- Cornerstone Pharmacy (9)
- Heartland Pharmacy (7)
- West Side Pharmacy (1)
- The Pharmacy at Wellington (1)
- Stanley Pharmacy (2)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Walgreens 81
- 2 CVS Pharmacy 22
- 3 Cornerstone Pharmacy 9
- 4 Heartland Pharmacy 7
- 5 Collier Drug 5
- 6 Smith Drug and Compounding 4
- 7 Doctor's Orders Pharmacy 3
- 8 City Pharmacy 2
- 9 Economy Drug 2
- 10 Medic Pharmacy 2
- 11 Coleman Pharmacy 2
- 12 MediSav Homecare Pharmacy 2
- 13 Medicine Man Pharmacy 2
- 14 Stanley Pharmacy 2
- 15 Medicine Shoppe 2
- 16 Rose Drug of Russellville 1
- 17 Forrest City Family Pharmacy 1
- 18 Live Well Pharmacy 1
- 19 Fairfield Bay Pharmacy & Home Medical Equipment 1
- 20 Frontier Pharmacy 1
- 21 Smith Drug 1
- 22 Highlands Pharmacy 1
- 23 Rose Drug of Dardanelle 1
- 24 West Side Pharmacy 1
- 25 Family Medical Center Pharmacy 1
- 26 Chapel Pharmacy 1
- 27 Medic Sav-On Drugs 1
- 28 Medi-Quik Pharmacy 1
- 29 Palace Drug Store 1
- 30 Crawford Pharmacy 1
- 31 The Prescription Pad Pharmacy 1
- 32 River Road Pharmacy 1
- 33 Argenta Drug Co. 1
- 34 Mitchell's Main Street Pharmacy 1
- 35 Mayflower Family Pharmacy 1
- 36 Ash Flat Pharmacy 1
- 37 Cave City Pharmacy 1
- 38 Comprehensive Medical 1
- 39 Market Place Pharmacy 1
- 40 Express Rx of Pine Bluff 1
- 41 Medical Arts Pharmacy 1
- 42 Anderson's Discount Pharmacy 1
- 43 The Local Pharm 1
- 44 Marshall Medic Pharmacy 1
- 45 C & D Drug Store 1
- 46 Hilltop Family Pharmacy 1
- 47 Village Pharmacy 1
- 48 Express Rx of Heber Springs 1
- 49 Dumas Family Pharmacy 1
- 50 MediSav Homecare Pharmacies 1
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