<P> There are approximately 67,000 pharmacies in the United States . Almost half (33,000) are located within drug stores, grocery stores, hospitals, department stores, medical clinics, surgery clinics, universities, nursing homes, prisons, and other facilities . The remaining pharmacies are considered to be independent or privately owned . The top 25 pharmacy chain stores represent about 28,000 pharmacy locations in the U.S. and employ about 46,000 on - staff pharmacists . California has 5,560 pharmacies, the most of any state . Texas, New York, Florida and Pennsylvania round out the top five states for pharmacy locations . </P> <P> The table below shows the top 25 pharmacy chains in the United States per state ranked by the number of pharmacist in each location, according to the National Pharmacy Market Summary done by SK&A 2010 </P>

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