Metro by metro
The leading pharmacy chains in every Missouri metro area
Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Walgreens leads in 5 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 2 metro areas. Against their share in Missouri as a whole, Walgreens stands out in 4 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 3 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Walgreens
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
St. Louis, MO-IL (MO part) 1.1× · Springfield, MO 1.1× · Joplin, MO-KS (MO part) 1.1× · Jefferson City, MO 1.3×
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CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Kansas City, MO-KS (MO part) 2.2× · Columbia, MO 0.4× · St. Joseph, MO-KS (MO part) 1.8×
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (MO part)
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Walgreens
#1 in 5 metro areas
St. Louis, MO-IL (MO part) · Springfield, MO · Joplin, MO-KS (MO part) · Columbia, MO · Jefferson City, MO
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CVS Pharmacy
#1 in 2 metro areas
Kansas City, MO-KS (MO part) · St. Joseph, MO-KS (MO part)
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (MO part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Missouri compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Missouri as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Missouri 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 Missouri is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Missouri. 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. Medicine Shoppe and Mizzou Pharmacy sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medicine Shoppe | - | +20.0% |
| 2 | Mizzou Pharmacy | ▲1 | +20.0% |
| 3 | Mercy Pharmacy | - | +10.4% |
| 4 | CVS Pharmacy | - | +8.3% |
| 5 | Summers Pharmacy | - | +2.7% |
| 6 | Walgreens | - | -3.1% |
| 7 | Genoa Healthcare | - | -5.9% |
| 8 | AuBurn Pharmacy | - | -11.5% |
| 9 | Rogers Pharmacy | - | -12.3% |
| 10 | Sinks Pharmacy | ▼1 | -13.8% |
| 11 | Hometown Pharmacy | - | -23.4% |
- Walgreens
- CVS Pharmacy
- Mercy Pharmacy
- Genesis Pharmacy Services
- Ladue Pharmacy
- Medicine Shoppe
- Mizzou Pharmacy
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
579 tracked store locations in Missouri. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 421 of the 579 stores (73%); 103 of the 125 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are pharmacies, against 9% across the United States.
- Walgreens (197)
- CVS Pharmacy (197)
- Mercy Pharmacy (12)
- Genesis Pharmacy Services (1)
- Ladue Pharmacy (1)
- Medicine Shoppe (8)
- Mizzou Pharmacy (3)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Walgreens 197
- 2 CVS Pharmacy 197
- 3 Mercy Pharmacy 12
- 4 Medicine Shoppe 8
- 5 Sinks Pharmacy 7
- 6 Genoa Healthcare 7
- 7 AuBurn Pharmacy 6
- 8 Pharmax Pharmacy 5
- 9 Summers Pharmacy 5
- 10 Rogers Pharmacy 4
- 11 Hometown Pharmacy 4
- 12 Evans Drugs 3
- 13 Mizzou Pharmacy 3
- 14 Lakeland Pharmacy 2
- 15 Stone's Corner Pharmacy 2
- 16 Schroeder Drugs 2
- 17 Kilgore's Medical Pharmacy 2
- 18 Albers Medical Pharmacy 2
- 19 Legacy Drugstore 2
- 20 Lawrence Drug & Compounding Lab 2
- 21 Family Pharmacy 2
- 22 The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy 2
- 23 Northwest Pharmacy Services 1
- 24 Stadium Pharmacy 1
- 25 Moser Pharmacy 1
- 26 Alton Drug Store 1
- 27 Stevenson Family Pharmacy 1
- 28 Prater's Pharmacy 1
- 29 Old Town Pharmacy 1
- 30 Jordan Valley Community Health Center 1
- 31 Eldon Drug Company 1
- 32 Hines Street Pharmacy 1
- 33 Evans Drug 1
- 34 Brown's Pharmacy 1
- 35 Winfield Pharmacy 1
- 36 SSM Health Pharmacy 1
- 37 Leighr Pharmacy 1
- 38 Jodi's Family Pharmacy 1
- 39 GreaterHealth Pharmacy & Wellness 1
- 40 Rinne Pharmacy 1
- 41 Winkelmann Sons Drugs 1
- 42 Mercy Pharmacy - Lebanon 1
- 43 Missouri Ozarks Community Health 1
- 44 Spalitto's Pharmacy 1
- 45 Bruner's Pharmacy & Hallmark 1
- 46 Flow's Pharmacy 1
- 47 Kinkead Pharmacy 1
- 48 Goldsmith Pharmacy 1
- 49 Genesis Pharmacy Services 1
- 50 Lake Regional Pharmacy 1
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