Top 501 Pharmacy Chains in Pennsylvania (2026)

Metro by metro

The leading pharmacy chains in every Pennsylvania metro area

Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. CVS Pharmacy leads in all 14 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Pennsylvania as a whole, CVS Pharmacy stands out in 10 metro areas, Walgreens in 2 metro areas.

Relative to Pennsylvania #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in 10 metro areas

Philadelphia, PA (PA part) 1.1× · Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA 1.1× · Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 1.3× · Lancaster, PA 1.2× · Reading, PA 0.6× · York-Hanover, PA 1.1× · Erie, PA 1× · Chambersburg, PA 1× · Lebanon, PA 1.2× · State College, PA 1.3×
Walgreens
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas

Pittsburgh, PA 2× · Allentown, PA (PA part) 1.1×

Not enough tracked stores: Gettysburg, PA · Williamsport, PA

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Altoona, PA · Johnstown, PA

CVS Pharmacy
#1 in all 14 metro areas

Not enough tracked stores: Gettysburg, PA · Williamsport, PA

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Pennsylvania compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Pennsylvania as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Pennsylvania. 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 The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	CVS Pharmacy	-	+19.7%
2	The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy	-	+19.6%
3	Walgreens	▲1	+13.8%
4	Rite Aid	▼1	-98.7%

CVS Pharmacy
Walgreens
Walmart Pharmacy
Spartan Pharmacy
Nickman's Drug
Medicine Shoppe
Lehigh Valley Pharmacy Services
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,530 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 994 of the 1,530 stores (65%); 473 of the 501 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are pharmacies, the same share as across the United States.