Drug Store News (DSN) has just released its latest rundown of the top pharmacy retailers in the mightily-titled PoweRx 50. (Links below.)
I recommend the PoweRx list to anyone who competes with, sells to, or otherwise interacts with retail pharmacy chains. This useful resource also provides brief profiles of most organizations.
Below, I show DSN's top 25 retailers. This year, CVS Health tops the DSN list, with $60.8 billion in retail prescription sales. Colorado-based chain Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy is no. 50, with $73 million in prescription sales—0.1% of CVS Health’s retail revenues.
Note that the DSN list is not a complete look at the U.S. pharmacy industry. It excludes many large mail and specialty pharmacies. It also inconsistently (and IMHO, inaccurately) aggregates independently-owned pharmacies by wholesaler and buying group. I highlight how the list differs from our broader but shorter list shown in The Top 15 U.S. Pharmacies of 2016.
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