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CVS Pharmacy: Meeting the needs of our local communities

August 11, 2025 |4 minute read

Outside of a CVS Pharmacy in the evening

With more than 9,000 locations across the United States, CVS Pharmacy® is the largest retail pharmacy in the country and a trusted community health and wellness partner, delivering care in ways no one else can.

Because each community is unique, ensuring we have the right kinds of stores in the right locations for our customers is important. That’s why we have multiple store and pharmacy formats, so we can be there for our customers and patients when they need us most.

A mother and daughter shopping at CVS Pharmacy together

Traditional CVS Pharmacy stores

Our traditional CVS Pharmacy stores are designed to provide accessible health, wellness, and pharmacy care products and services. Each store is stocked with thousands of items — including over-the-counter medications, beauty products and better-for-you food options and seasonal items — along with a full-service pharmacy, where patients can access their medications and receive trusted, clinical care, including more than 15 immunizations.

 

Store-in-store formats

In many communities, CVS Pharmacy can be found inside Target stores and Schnucks, a regional grocer. Like our traditional stores, these include full-service pharmacies with all the same services our patients need while they shop at their local Target or Schnucks.

A customer meeting with advocate in new Columbus, Ohio facility

Differentiated front store formats

CVS Pharmacy recognizes the importance of differentiated front store formats to support specific community needs. Our CVS Pharmacy y Mas and Navarro stores are designed to provide personalized, convenient and culturally-relevant shopping experiences for Hispanic communities; these locations employ bilingual store associates and carry over 1,500 products from brands including Café la Llave, Agustin Reyes, and Fabuloso. In Hawaii, we also operate Longs Drugs, which provides a place of care, connection and local tradition — offering essentials to pharmacy care and local island favorites. And in some cities, we have CVS stores with an array of health, beauty and food offerings — with no pharmacy — designed to meet customers’ grab and go needs.
 

Health care-focused formats

Our community health destinations are helping expand access to local health care through unique formats:

  • CVS Pharmacy and MinuteClinic®: Select CVS Pharmacy locations include MinuteClinic, in-store medical clinics that support over five million patients a year with acute care, chronic condition management, primary care (in select markets) and in-person and virtual mental health services. MinuteClinic is one of the nation’s largest employers of board-certified nurse practitioners and physician associates.
 
  • CVS Pharmacy and Oak Street Health®: Select CVS Pharmacy locations can be found side-by-side with Oak Street Health primary care clinics, which specialize in providing preventive, personalized care for older adults on Medicare. These centers offer a curated selection of over-the-counter health and wellness products and a full-service pharmacy, which streamlines the patient experience and helps increase access to care in communities that need it most.
A customer meeting with advocate in new Columbus, Ohio facility

What’s next?

We will soon introduce several small-format pharmacies in select markets across the U.S. These full-service pharmacies will offer the same essential services found in our traditional locations, including immunizations and medication adherence support — with a smaller store footprint, helping ensure access to pharmacy care, which is especially important in areas that lack pharmacies. These smaller locations will be about one-quarter of the size of a standard CVS store and will feature a limited selection of health and wellness products.

By taking a customized approach to our footprint and our store formats based on the specific needs of communities, we can be there for patients and customers when, where and how they need us.

 

 

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