CVS Worse than Walgreens and Rite Aid on Access
CVS does a worse job than its biggest national competitors in providing equal access to its services.
An analysis of aggregated national data reveals that, while CVS operates 19 percent more stores per person in communities where the median household income exceeds $80,000 than in the least affluent where the median household income is less than $40,000, the reverse is true of Walgreens and Rite aid. As shown in the figure above, Walgreens and Rite Aid actually locate more of their stores per person in the least affluent areas than in the wealthiest across the nation. Walgreens and Rite Aid locate 15 percent and 37 percent fewer stores per person in the wealthiest areas, respectively.
