Trends · data through September 2026

Pharmacies in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

Iceflower tracks 68 stores from 18 pharmacy chains in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA. CVS Pharmacy grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Walgreens and Medicap Pharmacy.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
18
Tracked stores
68
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pharmacy chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy - +3.9%
2 W Walgreens logo Walgreens - -1.4%
3 M Medicap Pharmacy logo Medicap Pharmacy - -5.1%
  • Walgreens
  • Hy-Vee Drugstore
  • CVS Pharmacy
  • Medicap Pharmacy
  • NuCara
  • Central Iowa Compounding
  • Primary Health Care
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

68 tracked store locations in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Walgreens (26)
  • Hy-Vee Drugstore (1)
  • CVS Pharmacy (8)
  • Medicap Pharmacy (17)
  • NuCara (2)
  • Central Iowa Compounding (1)
  • Primary Health Care (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 W Walgreens logo Walgreens 26
  • 2 M Medicap Pharmacy logo Medicap Pharmacy 17
  • 3 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy 8
  • 4 N NuCara logo NuCara 2
  • 5 M Montross Pharmacy 2
  • 6 F Fay Pharmacy 1
  • 7 F Five Star Compounding Pharmacy 1
  • 8 F Fifield Pharmacy 1
  • 9 N New Leaf Specialty Pharmacy 1
  • 10 C Cassady Pharmacy 1
  • 11 D Dowd Drug 1
  • 12 S Spring City Pharmacy LLC 1
  • 13 M Midwest Compounding 1
  • 14 S Sumpter Pharmacy 1
  • 15 R Right Dose 1
  • 16 P Primary Health Care 1
  • 17 C Central Iowa Compounding 1
  • 18 H Hy-Vee Drugstore logo Hy-Vee Drugstore 1

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