This article is a list of pharmacies (also known as chemists and drugstores) by country.

Australia

Pharmacies in Australia are mostly independently owned by

pharmacists A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...

, often operated as

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of retail brands offered by the three major pharmaceutical wholesalers in Australia: Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) and Sigma Pharmaceuticals. A minority of pharmacies are owned by

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, particularly in

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...

and

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. *

Chemist Warehouse Chemist Warehouse Group (trading as Chemist Warehouse, Chemist Warehouse New Zealand, My Chemist, My Beauty Spot) is an Australian company operating a chain of retail pharmacies both locally and internationally. The company is Australia's largest ...

API brands

* Priceline Pharmacies * Soul Pattinsonformerly owned by Washington H Soul Pattinson

Symbion brands

Terry White Chemmart TerryWhite Chemmart is an Australian pharmacy retailer owned by the Terry White Group. It is considered to be the largest pharmacy chain in Australia. History Terry and Rhonda White opened their first pharmacy in Woody Point, Queensland, in ...

Canada

Brunet Brunet (male) or brunette (female) refers to a person with brown hair. Brunet may also refer to: * Brunet (surname) * Brunet (pharmacy), a chain located in Quebec, Canada * Brunet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Brunet () is a commune in the Alpes-d ...

Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation (doing business as Costco Wholesale and also known simply as Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only big-box retail stores (warehouse club). As of 2022, Costco i ...

* DRUGStore Pharmacy *

Familiprix Familiprix is a Canadian group of independent pharmacists. , Familiprix consists of almost 400 pharmacies with over $1 billion in retail sales. Familiprix's network employs more than 6,000 and covers all of Quebec and part of New Brunswick. The b ...

* Jean Coutu *

Lawtons Lawtons is a Canadian drug store chain owned by the Sobeys Group of Stellarton, Nova Scotia with a head office located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It is a participant in the voluntary Scanner Price Accuracy Code managed by the Retail Council o ...

London Drugs London Drugs Limited is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Richmond, British Columbia. As of June 2021, the chain has 78 stores in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. In addition to pharmacy services ...

* PharmaChoice *

Pharmasave Pharmasave is a Canadian independent pharmacy and drugstore retailer with over 800 stores across Canada. Pharmasave produces a line of over 700 private-label Pharmasave Brand products. History Pharmasave was created in 1981 through the merger o ...

Proxim Proxim (also known by its corporate name Groupe PharmEssor) is a Canadian group of pharmacists located in Quebec and to a lesser extent in Ontario and the Maritimes provinces. The average Proxim drug store is , similar to the typical size of a B ...

(merger of Essaim and

Santé Services Sante is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Sante Bentivoglio (1426–1462), Italian nobleman *Sante Geronimo Caserio (1873–1894), Italian anarchist and assassin *Sante Cattaneo ( ...

) *

Rexall Rexall was a chain of American drugstores, and the name of their store-branded products. The stores, having roots in the federation of United Drug Stores starting in 1903, licensed the Rexall brand name to as many as 12,000 drug stores across th ...

Shoppers Drug Mart Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories. The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962 ...

(Pharmaprix in Quebec) *

Uniprix Uniprix is a pharmacy chain founded in 1977 and based in Saint-Leonard, Montreal, Quebec. It operates under four brands: Uniprix, Unipharm, Clinique Santé and Uniclinique (inside clinics). Combining its four brands, Uniprix is the second-lar ...

* Value Drug Mart *

Walmart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...

Online pharmacies

Canadian International Pharmacy Association Established in 2002, the Canadian International Pharmacy Association ("CIPA") is a Canadian association of licensed pharmacy businesses offering mail order pharmacy services to Canadian and international patients. CIPA members sell pharmaceuticals ...

Defunct chains

* Cadieux (acquired by Jean Coutu in 1987) *

Cumberland Drugs Cumberland Drugs was a pharmacy chain that operated stores in Quebec (with majority of them in the Montreal area) and Eastern Ontario. Founded in 1967, Cumberland Drugs was sold in 1997 upon the retirement of Morrie Neiss (none of his heirs were ...

(acquired by

53 and Jean Coutu 19 in 1997)

China

The key players in the drugstore industry in China are: *

China Nepstar China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd., which conducts business as China Nepstar (), is China's largest retail Pharmacy, drugstore Chain store, chain, based on the number of directly operated stores. It is headquartered in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. ...

– Shenzhen-based; China's largest *

Super-Pharm Super-Pharm ( he, סופר-פארם) is an Israeli multinational pharmacy chain. It also operates in Poland, Trinidad and Tobago and previously operated in China. Super-Pharm was founded by Murray Koffler with his two oldest children, Leon and Th ...

– Israeli company; had about 65 stores in China as of 2007 *

Watsons Watsons () is a Hong Kong health care and beauty care chain store in Asia and Europe. It is the flagship health and beauty brand of the A.S. Watson Group, which is majority owned by CK Hutchison Holdings. It operates near 8,000 stores and ...

– owned by HK-based Hutchison Whampoa

Denmark

In Denmark, all pharmacies are owned by the Association of Danish Pharmacies and controlled by the state. There are two pharmaceutically trained groups with a

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in the Danish pharmacies:

pharmaconomist In Denmark (including Greenland and Faroe Islands), pharmaconomists ( da, farmakonom) are experts in pharmaceuticals ( da, lægemiddelkyndig) who have trained with a 3-year tertiary degree. Pharmaconomy ( da, farmakonomi) describes either their p ...

s ( da, farmakonomer) and

pharmacist A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...

s (). There are also

pharmacy technician A pharmacy technician performs pharmacy-related functions, working collaboratively with a licensed pharmacist. Training, certification, licensing, and actual practice of pharmacy technicians varies not only worldwide but in some countries regional ...

s () who have a

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and unskilled laborers/

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() who perform

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Germany

In Germany, pharmacies are known as ''Apotheken''. As in France, they are all independently owned by pharmacists, and as in France, there are no pharmacy chains.

Online pharmacy

Celesio McKesson Europe AG (formerly Celesio AG, previously Gehe AG), with its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, is a leading international wholesale and retail company and provider of logistics and services in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sect ...

dm-drogerie markt dm-drogerie markt (usually abbreviated as dm) is a chain of retail stores headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, offering cosmetics, healthcare items, household products and health food and drinks. The company was founded in 1973 when it opened i ...

Hong Kong

Mannings Mannings () is a personal care product chain owned by Dairy Farm International Holdings, which is in turn owned by Jardine Matheson. It is known as Guardian () for Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam, and Singapore. By the end of 2016, there we ...

India

MedPlus MedPlus Health Services is an Indian pharmacy retail chain, headquartered in Hyderabad. MedPlus is the second largest pharmacy chain in India, operating over 3,000 pharmacy stores across 374 cities, as of 2022. MedPlus sells prescription and ...

Apollo Pharmacy Apollo, grc, Ἀπόλλωνος, Apóllōnos, label=genitive , ; , grc-dor, Ἀπέλλων, Apéllōn, ; grc, Ἀπείλων, Apeílōn, label=Arcadocypriot Greek, ; grc-aeo, Ἄπλουν, Áploun, la, Apollō, la, Apollinis, label= ...

Online Pharmacies *

Pharmeasy PharmEasy is an Indian e-pharmacy company that sells medicines, diagnostics and telehealth online. History The company was founded in 2015 by Dharmil Sheth and Dhaval Shah in Mumbai with the initial seed funding provided by their parents. T ...

TATA 1MG Tata 1 mg, previously 1 mg, is a healthcare platform based in Gurugram, India. It provides services, including e-pharmacy, diagnostics, e-consultation and health content. It was founded in April 2015 by Prashant Tandon, Gaurav Agarwal ...

* Netmeds

Ireland

Lloyds Pharmacy LloydsPharmacy is a British pharmacy company. It has around 17,000 staff and dispenses over 150 million prescription items annually. It is owned by the Aurelius Group. It was formerly owned by the American McKesson Corporation. Overview The co ...

Israel

Macau

Malaysia

* Guardian Pharmacy *

Mexico

* Farmacias Benavides *

Farmacias Guadalajara Farmacias Guadalajara is a Mexican drugstore chain, that was founded in 1942 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. In 1962 it began an expansion program, and currently has more than 1725 drugstores in 19 States. It is one of only 3 businesses from Jalisc ...

Netherlands

Pharmacies in the Netherlands are mostly independently owned by

s. In 2011, 31% of all pharmacies were part of one of the following chains: *

Alliance Healthcare Alliance Healthcare, formerly Alliance UniChem, wholesales, distributes, and retails pharmaceutical, surgical, medical, and healthcare products throughout Europe. The company supplies more than 110,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centres and hos ...

Dio Drogist D.I.O. Drogist (abbreviated Dutch ''Drogisten Inkoop Organisatie'') is a Dutch pharmacy chain founded in 1992. The company operates over 170 outlets in Dutch towns. In September 2019, the company merged with another Dutch pharmacy company DA, wit ...

* Mediq

New Zealand

* Unichem

Norway

Alliance Boots Alliance Boots GmbH was a multinational pharmacy-led health and beauty group with corporate headquarters in Bern, Switzerland and operational headquarters in Nottingham and Weybridge, United Kingdom. The company had a presence in over 27 countr ...

(opened in 2008 under the name Boots Apotek, using the same logos and products as in the UK) * Apotek 1 *

Central Norway Pharmaceutical Trust Central Norway Pharmaceutical Trust ( no, Sykehusapotekene i Midt-Norge HF) is a health trust owned by Central Norway Regional Health Authority that operates four hospital pharmacies at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Kristiansund Hospital, Mol ...

Ditt Apotek Ditt Apotek is a chain of 80 pharmacies owned and run by independent pharmacists on franchise from Norsk Medisinaldepot, a subsidiary of McKesson Europe. The chain is the fourth largest, and thus smallest, in Norway. The chain was established ...

Northern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust Hospital Pharmacy of North Norway Trust ( no, Sykehusapotek Nord HF, se, Davvi Buohcceviessoapotehka) is a health trust owned by Northern Norway Regional Health Authority that operates six hospital pharmacies. The pharmacies are part of the D ...

* Southern and Eastern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust *

Vitusapotek Vitusapotek is a chain of 300 pharmacies in Norway owned and run by Norsk Medisinaldepot, a subsidiary of McKesson Europe. The pharmacy chain is based in Oslo, and is the second largest in Norway, after Apotek1. The chain was established in 2 ...

* Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust

Philippines

Mercury Drug The Mercury Drug Corporation, better known as Mercury Drug, is a Filipino pharmacy chain. A subsidiary of the Mercury Group of Companies, it is headquartered in Bagumbayan, Quezon City. The chain was founded in Santa Cruz, Manila in 1945, making ...

* South Star Drug *

Poland

Puerto Rico

* CVS *

Walgreens Walgreen Company, d/b/a Walgreens, is an American company that operates the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, an ...

Defunct chains

* Farmacias El Amal

Singapore

* Guardian Pharmacy *

Pharmacy

Sweden

Apoteket Apoteket AB is a state-owned pharmaceuticals retailer in Sweden which formerly held a monopoly on the retail sale of medicines in the country. Formerly known as Apoteksbolaget, the company is a government owned enterprise reporting to the Ministry ...

* Doc Morris

Taiwan

* COSMED *

Tomod's , doing business as , is a Japanese drugstore chain headquartered on the third floor of the in Nishikata, Bunkyō, Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List ...

Wellcare WellCare Health Plans, Inc. is an American health insurance company that provides managed care services primarily through Medicaid, Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug plans for members across the United States. WellCare began ...

Don Don Donki , also known as Don Don Donki, is a Japanese multinational discount store chain. As of 2022, it has over 160 locations throughout Japan, 15 in Singapore, 9 in Hong Kong, 5 in Thailand, 3 in Hawaii and Malaysia, 2 in Taiwan, and 1 in Macau and G ...

Thailand

* GNC *

United Arab Emirates

* Aster DM Healthcare

United Kingdom

Asda Asda Stores Ltd. () (often styled as ASDA) is a British supermarket chain. It is headquartered in Leeds, England. The company was founded in 1949 when the Asquith family merged their retail business with the Associated Dairies company of York ...

Pharmacy * Boots Pharmacy *

Morrisons Wm Morrison Supermarkets, trading as Morrisons, is the fifth largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. As of 2021, the company had 497 supermarkets across England, Wales and Scotland, as well as one in Gibraltar. The company is headqua ...

Pharmacy *

Superdrug Superdrug Stores plc (trading as Superdrug) is a health and beauty retailer in the United Kingdom, and the second largest behind Boots UK. The company is owned by A.S. Watson (Health & Beauty UK) Ltd which is part of the A.S. Watson Group. It ...

Pharmacy *

Tesco Tesco plc () is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. In 2011 it was the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and the ninth-largest in th ...

Pharmacy *

Well Pharmacy Well, formerly known as The Co-operative Pharmacy, is the largest independent pharmacy business and the third largest overall pharmacy chain after Boots UK and Lloyds Pharmacy in the United Kingdom. It is the largest pharmacy chain in Wales. Fo ...

Other pharmacies

* Numarkbuying group of over 2,000 independently owned pharmacies in the UK

Internet pharmacies

Pharmacy2U Pharmacy2U is an online pharmacy located in the UK. Pharmacy2U has been involved in piloting the electronic transfer of prescriptions in the UK. They manage NHS repeat prescriptions on behalf of patients. Pharmacy2U was founded by pharmacist D ...

– online mail-order pharmacy located in the UK * Medexpress – online mail-order pharmacy located in the UK

United States

Many pharmacy chains in the United States are owned and operated by regional

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brands, or national

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brands such as

. These pharmacies are located within their larger chain stores. The three largest free-standing pharmacy chains in the United States are

, CVS, and

Rite Aid Rite Aid Corporation is an American drugstore chain based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1962 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by Alex Grass under the name Thrift D Discount Center. The company ranked No. 148 in the Fortune 500 lis ...

Stand-alone pharmacy chains

* Bartell Drugs (subsidiary of RiteAid since 2020; operates as separate brand name) * Boone Drug *

CVS Pharmacy CVS Pharmacy, Inc. is an American retail corporation. A subsidiary of CVS Health, it is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was also known as, and originally named, the Consumer Value Store and was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in ...

Discount Drug Mart Discount Drug Mart, Inc., is a northeast Ohio based drug store chain. Its first store opened in Elyria, Ohio in 1969 by Parviz Boodjeh, RPh. History In 1969, Parviz Boodjeh established the first Discount Drug Mart in Elyria, Ohio. The store ...

Duane Reade Duane Reade Inc. ( ) is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance. Its stores are primarily located in New York City, and known for high-volume, small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. In 2 ...

(subsidiary of

since 2010; operates as separate brand name) * Family Pharmacy *

Good Neighbor Pharmacy Good Neighbor Pharmacy is an American retailers' cooperative network of independently owned and operated pharmacies. It has a business affiliation with AmerisourceBergen AmerisourceBergen Corporation is an American drug wholesale company t ...

Hartig Drug Hartig Drug Stores is a chain of pharmacy/retail stores based out of Dubuque, Iowa. The company provides pharmacy services not only to the general public, but to area institutions as well. Along with this pharmacy focus, Hartig Drug stores o ...

Health Mart Health Mart is an independent pharmacy franchise with more than 5,000 member pharmacies across all 50 states. Each pharmacy is locally owned and operated, allowing Health Mart pharmacy owners to tailor their offerings to the specific communitie ...

* Kinney Drugs * Leader Drug Stores * Lewis Drug *

Longs Drugs Longs Drugs is an American chain owned by parent company CVS Health with approximately 70 drugstores throughout the state of Hawaii and formerly in the Continental US. Before being acquired by parent company in 2008, it was a chain of over 500 s ...

(subsidiary of CVS since 2008) * Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy *

Navarro Discount Pharmacies Navarro Discount Pharmacies, Inc., frequently referred to as Navarro is a pharmacy chain, photo service, and pharmacy benefit manager in the United States. The company was acquired by CVS Health in September, 2014 and is operated as a separa ...

(subsidiary of CVS since 2015) *

* Thrifty White *

Valu-Rite {{unreferenced, date=February 2014 Valu-Rite is a network of over 4,000 independently owned and operated pharmacies established in 1979. It has a business affiliation with McKesson Pharmaceuticals, which sponsors the network and owns the name "Va ...

Defunct chains

* Arbor Drugs (acquired by CVS in 1998) *

Big B Drugs Big B, Inc. was a Birmingham, Alabama-based drugstore chain. The company began operation in 1968 as division of Birmingham based Bruno's Supermarkets. Most of its stores were located next to a Bruno's, Food World or FoodMax. Big B also operated ...

(acquired by Revco in 1996; rebranded as CVS in 1997) *

Brooks Pharmacy Brooks Pharmacy was a chain of more than 330 pharmacies located throughout New England and New York and was a well-recognized name in the New England pharmacy industry for several decades. The corporate headquarters were located in Warwick, Rhode ...

(acquired by

in 2007) * Cunningham Drug (acquired by Walgreens in 1991) *

Dart Drug Dart Drug is a now-defunct chain of discount drug stores in the metropolitan Washington, DC region. It was founded in 1955, by Herbert Haft and his wife Gloria in Adams Morgan. The chain expanded to over 100 stores, and became a vehicle (as Dart ...

(bankrupt in 1990) *

Drug Emporium Drug Emporium is the name of a discount drug store corporation, founded in 1977 in Columbus, Ohio, that was sold to several different buyers during 2000 to 2001. Although several store locations continue to use the Drug Emporium name, these loc ...

Drug Fair Drug Fair was a chain of Pharmacy, drugstores based in New Jersey. History The company kept its headquarters in Somerset, New Jersey and was founded in 1954. In addition to its drugstore chain Drug Fair also owned and operated Cost Cutters, a di ...

(company liquidated in 2009, assets purchased by

) * Eckerd (acquired by

in 2007) * Fay's Drug (purchased by JC Penney and rebranded as Eckerd in 1997) * Farmacias El Amal *

Fred's Fred's Inc. (stylized ''FRED'S'') was a retail store chain headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, operating in 15 states in the southeastern United States. As of June, 2019 Fred's operated 396 locations, of which 155 are pharmacies, and the remain ...

(company liquidated in 2019) * GO Guy (purchased by Pay'n'Save in 1987) *

Genovese Drug Stores Genovese Drug Stores was a pharmacy chain located in the New York City- Long Island area of the United States, including northern New Jersey, along with Fairfield County, Connecticut and Hartford County, Connecticut. It was acquired by JCPenney i ...

(acquired by Eckerd parent

JC Penney Penney OpCo LLC, doing business as JCPenney and often abbreviated JCP, is a midscale American department store chain operating 667 stores across 49 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. Departments inside JCPenney stores include Mens, Womens, Boys, Gir ...

in 1998; rebranded in 2003) *

Gray Drug Gray Drug was an American drugstore chain in Cleveland, Ohio. The chain began in 1912 and grew to 46 stores by 1946 and over 100 by the 1970s. Besides Ohio, stores later opened in Florida and Maryland. The chain later acquired Alexandria, Virginia ...

(Bought by Rite Aid in 1987) *

Happy Harry's Happy Harry's was an American drugstore chain that was merged into Walgreens starting in 2006. Happy Harry's operated 76 locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey. It was founded in 1962 by entrepreneur Harry Levin. It was an ...

(bought by Walgreens in 2006; rebranded in 2011) *

Hook's Drug Stores Hook's Drug Stores was an Indianapolis, Indiana-based drug store chain which was founded in 1900 by John A. Hook. The chain flourished throughout central Indiana for most of the 20th-century. Hook's did business under its own banner, the SupeRX D ...

(acquired by

Revco Revco Discount Drug Stores (known simply as Revco or Revco, D.S.), once based in Twinsburg, Ohio, was a major drug store chain operating through the Ohio Valley, the Mid-Atlantic states, and the Southeastern United States. The chain's stock ...

in 1994) *

IDL Drug Stores IDL Drug Stores or the Independent Drugstores League was a cooperative of independent drugstores that disbanded in the late 1960s. Several drugstores retain the IDL name, including Seebers IDL in Newport, Washington and Schneiders IDL in Minneap ...

* Jean Coutu (US stores acquired by Rite Aid in 2004) * K&B (Acquired by Rite Aid in 1997) *

Kerr Drug Kerr Drug was an American chain of 76 drug stores throughout North Carolina. Its headquarters were located in Raleigh, North Carolina. On September 10, 2013, Walgreens announced its purchase of Kerr. History The company was founded in Raleigh by ...

(acquired by Walgreens in 2013) *

Lane Drug The Lane Drug Company of Ohio (also referred to as "Lane’s Discount Drugs", or "Lane's), was a discount drugstore chain in the United States that was originally based in Toledo, Ohio. On 10 April 1989, the chain was acquired by Rite Aid Corporat ...

(purchased by Rite Aid in 1989) * LaVerdiere's (purchased by Rite Aid in 1994) * Medi Mart (sold to

in 1980s) *

Osco Drug Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs were the names of a pair of chain pharmacies that operated in the United States. Osco Drug was founded by the Skaggs family. Alpha Beta grocery store was purchased by American Stores in 1961. Skaggs Drug Centers boug ...

(freestanding stores acquired by and converted to CVS in 2006) * Pay 'n Save (acquired by Thirfty Corp. in 1988, rebranded as PayLess Drug) * PayLess Drug Stores (purchased by Rite Aid in 1996) *

Peoples Drug Peoples Drug was a chain of drugstores based in Alexandria, Virginia. Founded in 1905, Peoples was subsequently purchased by Lane Drug in 1975, Imasco in 1984, and finally by CVS in 1990, which continued to run the stores under the Peoples banne ...

(acquired by CVS in 1990; rebranded in 1994) *

Perry Drug Stores Perry Drug Stores was an American retail pharmacy chain founded in 1957 in the city of Pontiac, Michigan, United States. At its peak in the 1980s, Perry operated more than 200 drug stores, primarily in the state of Michigan, as well as 200 Auto W ...

(acquired by Rite Aid in 1995) *

Phar-Mor Phar-Mor (stylized as PHA℞-MOR) was a United States chain of discount drug stores, based in Youngstown, Ohio, and founded by Michael "Mickey" Monus and David Shapira in 1982. Some of its stores used the names Pharmhouse and Rx Place (purchas ...

(bankrupt in 2002) *

(bought by CVS in 1997, rebranded in 1998) *

* Sav-on (freestanding stores acquired by and converted to CVS in 2006) *

Snyder Drug The Katz Group of Companies is a Canadian privately-owned enterprise, with Samantha operations. In sports and entertainment and real estate development. Oilers Entertainment Group (OEG), a subsidiary of the Katz Group, owns the National Hockey Lea ...

(acquired by Walgreens in 2003) * Standard Drug (purchased by CVS in 1993; rebranded in 1994) *

Thrift Drug Thrift Drug was a U.S. pharmacy chain founded in 1935 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was purchased by JCPenney in 1968, and was expanded greatly thereafter, serving as the flagship chain of JCPenney's pharmacy group. The cha ...

(purchased by JC Penney and rebranded as Eckerd in 1997) * Thrifty Drugs (purchased by Rite Aid in 1996) * Treasury Drug (rebranded as Eckerd in 1997) *

USA Drug USA Drug was a convenience store and pharmacy chain in the United States that operated more than 160 stores in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. It was founded in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1986. Its headquarters are still ...

(bought by Walgreens in 2012) *

Wellby Super Drug Wellby Super Drug was a chain of 41 drug stores that operated in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont from 1973 until 1992. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Hannaford Brothers, northern New England's largest grocer. After the Maine State Legisl ...

(bought by Rite Aid in 1992)

Vatican City

Vatican Pharmacy The Vatican Pharmacy (Latin and it, ) is the only pharmacy in the Vatican City, founded in 1874 by Eusebio Ludvig Fronmen, a Fatebenefratelli religious. According to Vatican sources, it is the busiest pharmacy in the world, with 2,000 customer ...

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Australia

API brands

Symbion brands

Canada

Online pharmacies

Defunct chains

China

Denmark

Germany

Online pharmacy

Hong Kong

India

Ireland

Israel

Macau

Malaysia

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Philippines

Poland

Puerto Rico

Defunct chains

Singapore

Sweden

Taiwan

Thailand

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

Other pharmacies

Internet pharmacies

United States

Stand-alone pharmacy chains

Defunct chains

Vatican City

See also

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