Top 8790 Pharmacy Chains in the US (2026)

State by state

The leading pharmacy chains in every state

Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each state, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Walgreens leads in 31 states, CVS Pharmacy in 19 states and DC. Against their share in the US as a whole, Walgreens stands out in 30 states, CVS Pharmacy in 17 states and DC, and Kinney Drugs in 2 states.

Relative to the US #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Walgreens
Relative #1 in 30 states

Alaska 1.8×, Colorado 1.8×, Wisconsin 1.8×, New Mexico 1.7×, Illinois 1.6×, Minnesota 1.6×, Wyoming 1.6×, Delaware 1.5×, Iowa 1.5×, Maine 1.5×, Missouri 1.5×, Idaho 1.4×, Oklahoma 1.4×, Tennessee 1.4×, Washington 1.4×, Arkansas 1.3×, Kansas 1.3×, Louisiana 1.3×, Oregon 1.3×, Arizona 1.2×, Florida 1.2×, Kentucky 1.2×, Mississippi 1.2×, Nevada 1.2×, South Dakota 1.2×, Texas 1.1×, Alabama 1×, Nebraska 1×, Utah 1×, Montana 0.9×
CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in 17 states and DC

District of Columbia 2×, Massachusetts 1.8×, Pennsylvania 1.8×, Rhode Island 1.8×, Connecticut 1.6×, New Hampshire 1.5×, Indiana 1.4×, Maryland 1.4×, New Jersey 1.4×, California 1.3×, South Carolina 1.3×, Virginia 1.3×, Georgia 1.2×, North Carolina 1.1×, Hawaii 1×, Michigan 1×, North Dakota 1×, West Virginia 1×
Kinney Drugs
Relative #1 in 2 states

Vermont over 10×, New York over 10×
Discount Drug Mart
Relative #1 in Ohio, over 10× its share in the US

Walgreens
#1 in 31 states

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming
CVS Pharmacy
#1 in 19 states and DC

California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

A state shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to the US compares a chain's share of the state's spend with its share in the US as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in the US and the chains that lead a state by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the state's spend and 3 stores there. 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. Community Pharmacy and Moose Pharmacy sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Community Pharmacy	-	+19.7%
2	Moose Pharmacy	▲9	+19.6%
3	Ascension Rx	▲4	+19.1%
4	Banner Family Pharmacy	▲7	+17.8%
5	Aurora Pharmacy	▲2	+16.0%
6	Good Day Pharmacy	▲7	+15.7%
7	Shrivers Pharmacy	▲5	+15.5%
8	Spartan Pharmacy	▲5	+13.5%
9	Hy-Vee Drugstore	▲4	+13.3%
10	Lewis Drug	▲3	+13.2%
11	Drugco Discount Pharmacy	▲5	+13.2%
12	Mercy Pharmacy	▲4	+11.7%
13	Medical Arts Pharmacy	▲5	+10.4%
14	King's Pharmacy	▲6	+10.4%
15	Reed's Pharmacy	▲2	+9.6%

Walgreens
CVS Pharmacy
Discount Drug Mart
Kinney Drugs
Walmart Pharmacy
Harmons Pharmacy
Bee's Marketplace
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 32,824 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 21,074 of the 32,824 stores (64%); 7,745 of the 8,790 tracked chains have a single store here.