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Chemist Warehouse Group (trading as Chemist Warehouse, My Chemist, My Beauty Spot) [3] is an Australian company operating a chain of retail pharmacies both locally and internationally. The company is one of Australia's largest pharmacy retailers with over 500 stores in Australia, [ 4 ] and employs over 20,000 staff. [ 5 ]
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.
Tamoxifen was initially made in 1962, by chemist Dora Richardson. [17] [18] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [19] Tamoxifen is available as a generic medication. [14] In 2020, it was the 317th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 900 thousand prescriptions. [20] [21]
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]
Dora Nellie Richardson (1919-1998) was an organic chemist who first synthesised Tamoxifen in England in 1962. [1] She was born on 1 June 1919 and died in September 1998 in England. [2] Richardson decided to become a chemist after seeing people working in hospital laboratories while visiting her grandmother in hospital in London.
An online pharmacy, internet pharmacy, or mail-order pharmacy is a pharmacy that operates over the Internet and sends orders to customers through mail, shipping companies, or online pharmacy web portal. Online pharmacies include: Pharmacy benefits managers – Entities that administer corporate prescription drug plans.
Navarro Discount Pharmacies has a 17% market share in South Florida, ahead of Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy. [1] The company has more than 2,000 employees and annual sales of more than $350 million. Navarro leads the industry in terms of sales per store, sales per square foot, and prescriptions filled per store. [2]
Duane Reade Inc. (/ d w eɪ n ˈ r iː d / dwayn REED) is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance.Its stores are primarily in New York (metropolitan New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, and Fairfield counties) in addition to in New Jersey.