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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 ]
Genovese Drug Stores was founded in 1924 by Joseph Genovese in Astoria, Queens. [1] In 1955, Joseph W. Genovese Jr., the son of the founder and the chairman of the board, introduced self‐service in the chain. [2] By 1978, the chain had 50 locations. [3] The company opened its first Manhattan location in 1993. [4] That year, it also opened its ...
Pharmacy, cosmetics, health and beauty aids, general merchandise, snacks. 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 Drug Stores banner outside ...
C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a national wholesale grocery supply company in the United States, based in Keene, New Hampshire. In 2021 it was the eighth-largest privately held company in the United States, as listed by Forbes. [ 3] C&S operates and supports corporate grocery stores and serves independent franchisees under a chain-style model ...
Walgreens. Walgreen Company is an American company that operates the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States, behind CVS Health. [ 3] It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, and photo services. [ 4] It was founded in Chicago in 1901, and is headquartered in the Chicago suburb ...
It has more than 1,300 stores in ten provinces and two territories. [2] The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962; [2] the Koffler family still retains ownership of the Super-Pharm pharmacy, which has locations in Israel, Poland, and formerly in China (as Ensure from 2005 to 2011). [5]
Thrift Drug was a U.S. pharmacy chain founded in 1935 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1] The Company was purchased by JCPenney in 1968, and was expanded greatly thereafter, serving as the flagship chain of JCPenney's pharmacy group. The chain did not hide its affiliation with JCPenney, as it had JCPenney catalog merchandise pickup ...
The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," [11] with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, [12] today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s, and providing a model.