Drugstore and Pharmacy Shopping in Focus—CVS and Walgreens Are the Top Choices: US Consumer Survey Insights

What's Inside

The Coresight Research weekly US Consumer Survey Insights series takes a regular temperature check on US consumers’ behaviors and sentiment, based on exclusive proprietary survey data.

This week, in addition to our usual weekly findings on consumer sentiment, activities and shopping patterns (with the latest data from our August 5, 2024, survey), we present new data on drugstore and pharmacy retail specifically, diving into where drugstore and pharmacy shoppers make purchases and what they buy.

Data in this research report are our latest proprietary survey findings on:

• Whether consumers have purchased products at drugstores or pharmacy retailers in the past three months
• Popular retailers and product categories among drugstore and pharmacy shoppers
• Activities that consumers have done in the past two weeks
• Where consumers have bought food and nonfood products from in the last two weeks
• What consumers have bought in-store and online in the last two weeks
• Consumers’ expectations for the economy overall and for their own personal financial situation

Companies mentioned in this research report include: CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Walmart

Other relevant research:

• Market Navigator: US Drugstore and Pharmacy Retailers—A Strong Focus on Healthcare Expansion in 2024 and Beyond
• Market Navigator: US Healthcare—Evolving To Become More Personalized and Consumer-Focused
• More research coverage of drugstores
• Every 12 weeks, we survey consumers about each major retail sector, and we include that data in full in our US Consumer Survey Insights Databank. Look out for focused analysis on more retail sectors in future reports in our US Consumer Survey Insights report series.