Metro by metro
The leading pharmacy chains in every Kansas metro area
Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Walgreens leads in all 4 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Kansas as a whole, Walgreens stands out in 2 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 2 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Walgreens
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Wichita, KS 1.3× · Topeka, KS 1.4×
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CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas
Kansas City, MO-KS (KS part) 1.7× · Lawrence, KS 1×
Not enough tracked stores: Joplin, MO-KS (KS part) · Manhattan, KS · St. Joseph, MO-KS (KS part)
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Walgreens
#1 in all 4 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Joplin, MO-KS (KS part) · Manhattan, KS · St. Joseph, MO-KS (KS part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Kansas compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Kansas as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Kansas 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 Kansas is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Kansas. 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. CVS Pharmacy and Midwest Family Health sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CVS Pharmacy | - | +5.6% |
| 2 | Midwest Family Health | - | +5.1% |
| 3 | Genoa Healthcare | - | +0.3% |
| 4 | Walgreens | - | -1.2% |
| 5 | AuBurn Pharmacy | - | -5.7% |
- Walgreens
- CVS Pharmacy
- The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
- West Wichita Family Pharmacy
- AuBurn Pharmacy
- Ashcraft Pharmacy
- G&L Healthmart Pharmacy
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
235 tracked store locations in Kansas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 138 of the 235 stores (59%); 93 of the 100 tracked chains have a single store here. 14% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are pharmacies, against 9% across the United States.
- Walgreens (66)
- CVS Pharmacy (51)
- The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy (1)
- West Wichita Family Pharmacy (1)
- AuBurn Pharmacy (13)
- Ashcraft Pharmacy (1)
- G&L Healthmart Pharmacy (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Walgreens 66
- 2 CVS Pharmacy 51
- 3 AuBurn Pharmacy 13
- 4 Genoa Healthcare 5
- 5 Midwest Family Health 3
- 6 Reed Pharmacy 2
- 7 The Medicine Store 2
- 8 Capstone Pharmacy 1
- 9 Grant County Drug 1
- 10 Grave's Drug Store 1
- 11 Apothecare Pharmacy 1
- 12 Greeley County Drug 1
- 13 Lanning Pharmacy 1
- 14 St Marys Pharmacy 1
- 15 Onaga Pharmacy 1
- 16 Vohs Pharmacy 1
- 17 Cedar Creek Pharmacy 1
- 18 River City Pharmacy 1
- 19 Monarch Pharmacy 1
- 20 Professional Pharmacy 1
- 21 Creative Health Pharmacy of Sedan 1
- 22 Kiowa County Pharmacy 1
- 23 Gatlin Medical Arts Pharmacy 1
- 24 Medical Pharmacy 1
- 25 Hugoton Drug 1
- 26 Caldwell Pharmacy 1
- 27 Leekers Family Pharmacy VC 1
- 28 Cheney Pharmacy 1
- 29 Cardinal Drug Store 1
- 30 Pharmington Drugs 1
- 31 El Dorado TrueCare Pharmacy 1
- 32 Bachman Drug Inc. 1
- 33 Key Rexall Health Mart 1
- 34 Bowen Pharmacy 1
- 35 Sigler Pharmacy 1
- 36 Mahanna Pharmacy 1
- 37 Kellstrom Pharmacy 1
- 38 Harvey Drug and Gifts 1
- 39 Sabetha Pharmacy 1
- 40 Scott City Health Mart Pharmacy 1
- 41 Witmer Rexall Drug 1
- 42 Medical Arts Pharmacy 1
- 43 Oakley Health Mart Pharmacy 1
- 44 Ferguson Rexall Drugs 1
- 45 Health Center Pharmacy 1
- 46 Patterson Healthmart Pharmacy 1
- 47 Medical Pavilion Pharmacy 1
- 48 Kinsley Drug Company 1
- 49 Stafford County Drug 1
- 50 Eureka Pharmacy 1
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