Trends · data through July 2026

Pharmacies in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

Iceflower tracks 58 stores from 12 pharmacies chains in Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA. Medicap Pharmacy grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Walgreens and CVS 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
12
Tracked stores
58
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pharmacies 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. Medicap Pharmacy and Walgreens sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Medicap Pharmacy logo Medicap Pharmacy - +5.5%
2 W Walgreens logo Walgreens - -2.4%
3 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy - -3.6%
  • Walgreens
  • Hy-Vee Drugstore
  • CVS Pharmacy
  • Medicap Pharmacy
  • Central Iowa Compounding
  • NuCara
  • Primary Health Care
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

58 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 (15)
  • Central Iowa Compounding (1)
  • NuCara (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 15
  • 3 C CVS Pharmacy logo CVS Pharmacy 8
  • 4 H Hy-Vee Drugstore logo Hy-Vee Drugstore 1
  • 5 C Central Iowa Compounding 1
  • 6 N NuCara logo NuCara 1
  • 7 P Primary Health Care 1
  • 8 M Montross Pharmacy 1
  • 9 R Right Dose 1
  • 10 S Sumpter Pharmacy 1
  • 11 S Spring City Pharmacy LLC 1
  • 12 D Dowd Drug 1

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