Metro by metro
The leading pharmacy chains in every New York metro area
Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Walgreens leads in 6 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 5 metro areas, and Kinney Drugs in 1 metro area. Against their share in New York as a whole, Walgreens stands out in 4 metro areas, CVS Pharmacy in 3 metro areas, and Kinney Drugs in 3 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Walgreens
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY 1.7× · Rochester, NY 1.6× · Glens Falls, NY 1.2× · Kingston, NY 1.3×
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CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 1.3× · Kiryas Joel, NY 1.3× · Binghamton, NY 1.7×
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Kinney Drugs
Relative #1 in 3 metro areas
Syracuse, NY 4.7× · Utica-Rome, NY 2.3× · Watertown-Fort Drum, NY 8.9×
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Duane Reade
Relative #1 in New York, NY (NY part), 4.9× its share in New York
Not enough tracked stores: Ithaca, NY
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Elmira, NY
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Walgreens
#1 in 6 metro areas
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY · Rochester, NY · Syracuse, NY · Utica-Rome, NY · Kingston, NY · Elmira, NY
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CVS Pharmacy
#1 in 5 metro areas
New York, NY (NY part) · Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY · Kiryas Joel, NY · Binghamton, NY · Glens Falls, NY
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Kinney Drugs
#1 in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
Not enough tracked stores: Ithaca, NY
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to New York compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in New York as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in New York 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 New York is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in New York. 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. Value Drugs and Parkway Drugs sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Value Drugs | ▲1 | +16.2% |
| 2 | Parkway Drugs | ▲3 | +11.4% |
| 3 | CVS Pharmacy | - | +5.3% |
| 4 | Walgreens | - | +4.7% |
| 5 | Duane Reade | ▲1 | +1.1% |
| 6 | Kinney Drugs | - | -2.5% |
| 7 | Medicine Shoppe | - | -21.9% |
| 8 | Vivo Health Pharmacy | ▲1 | -27.6% |
| 9 | Service Pharmacy | - | -47.7% |
| 10 | Rite Aid | ▼6 | -99.9% |
- CVS Pharmacy
- Walgreens
- Kinney Drugs
- Duane Reade
- Fallon Wellness Pharmacy
- Walmart Pharmacy
- C.O. Bigelow
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
2,148 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,417 of the 2,148 stores (66%); 649 of the 687 tracked chains have a single store here. 17% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are pharmacies, against 9% across the United States.
- CVS Pharmacy (598)
- Walgreens (519)
- Kinney Drugs (79)
- Duane Reade (31)
- Fallon Wellness Pharmacy (1)
- Walmart Pharmacy (3)
- C.O. Bigelow (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 CVS Pharmacy 598
- 2 Walgreens 519
- 3 Rite Aid 190
- 4 Kinney Drugs 79
- 5 Duane Reade 31
- 6 Medicine Shoppe 8
- 7 Value Drugs 5
- 8 Vivo Health Pharmacy 3
- 9 Parkway Drugs 3
- 10 Service Pharmacy 3
- 11 Genoa Healthcare 3
- 12 Gerould's Pharmacy 3
- 13 Walmart Pharmacy 3
- 14 Village Pharmacy 2
- 15 Dougherty Pharmacy 2
- 16 Middleport Family Health Center 2
- 17 Preferred Pharmacy 2
- 18 Danny's Pharmacy 2
- 19 Life Pharmacy 2
- 20 Carman Drugs 2
- 21 Capsule Pharmacy 2
- 22 AHMA RX 2
- 23 Thriftway Pharmacy 2
- 24 Village Apothecary 2
- 25 Cedra Pharmacy 2
- 26 ConnectRx 2
- 27 Browns Pharmacy 2
- 28 City Chemist 2
- 29 Jefferson Valley Pharmacy 1
- 30 Healthsource Pharmacy 1
- 31 Medical Arts Pharmacy 1
- 32 Clarence Pharmacy 1
- 33 Mannings Pharmacy 1
- 34 Rosenkrans Pharmacy Gift Shop 1
- 35 Burnet Pharmacy 1
- 36 Nature's Prescriptions 1
- 37 Cy's Elma Pharmacy 1
- 38 Honeoye Falls Pharmacy 1
- 39 Life Science Pharmacy Inc 1
- 40 Globe Drug Store 1
- 41 Southold Pharmacy 1
- 42 Pasteur Pharmacy 1
- 43 Sugar Hill Pharmacy 1
- 44 Kamwo Herbal Pharmacy 1
- 45 Wespaw Pets Pharmacy 1
- 46 Imperial Pharmacy 1
- 47 Fallon Wellness Pharmacy 1
- 48 Ballard Pharmacy 1
- 49 Wurlitzer Family Pharmacy 1
- 50 Nassau Pharmacy Inc 1
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