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Many pharmacy chains in the United States are owned and operated by regional supermarket brands, or national big-box store brands such as Walmart. These pharmacies are located within their larger chain stores. The three largest free-standing pharmacy chains in the United States are Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid.
The top 25 pharmacy chain stores represent about 38,000 pharmacy locations in the U.S. and employ about 149,000 on-staff pharmacists. California has 8,015 pharmacies, the most of any state. Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania round out the top five states for pharmacy locations. [1]
Chemist Direct is a UK-based company providing medical products and services in addition to beauty products online. Founded in 2007, it received funding from technology investment firm Atomico in 2013. [2] [3]
Chemist Warehouse Group (trading as Sigma Healthcare Ltd) [3] is an Australian company operating a chain of retail chemists both locally and internationally. The company is one of Australia's largest chemist retailers with over 500 stores in Australia, [4] and employs over 20,000 staff. [5]
In the early 1980s, Boodjeh began standardizing the merchandise offerings and commissioned an architect to develop a store design on which all Discount Drug stores would be based. A 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m 2 ) model was produced and adopted, and this design was later modified and enlarged to 24,000 square feet (2,200 m 2 ).
McKesson UK rebranded as Hallo Healthcare Group and in November 2023, confirmed the sale of its 1,054 LloydsPharmacy high street and community pharmacy branches to new owners, either individually or in regional groups. [15] This saved 6,500 branch jobs and ensured that pharmacy services remain available in communities across the UK.
A pharmacy (also called drugstore in American English or community pharmacy or chemist in Commonwealth English) is a premises which provides pharmaceutical drugs, among other products. At the pharmacy, a pharmacist oversees the fulfillment of medical prescriptions and is available to counsel patients about prescription and over-the-counter ...
A pharmacy (also known as a chemist in Australia, New Zealand and the British Isles; or drugstore in North America; retail pharmacy in industry terminology; or apothecary, historically) is where most pharmacists practice the profession of pharmacy. It is the community pharmacy in which the dichotomy of the profession exists; health ...