chemist is a shop where you can buy medicine, cosmetics, and some household items. A pharmacy is the place within a chemist's or drugstore, or within a supermarket or other business, where you can get prescription drugs. a medical shop where you can buy medicine and cosmetics is called a drugstore.

Both Walgreens and CVS are excellent choices when it comes to filling a prescription. Prices are very competitive, so it really comes down to convenience factors such as location availability or extra services and rewards offered by either store.

CVS Pharmacy used to be a subsidiary of Melville Corporation, where its full name was initially Consumer Value Stores. Melville changed its name to CVS Corporation in 1996 after Melville sold off many of its nonpharmacy stores.

Founded in 2007 through a merger between CVS Pharmacy and Caremark Rx, CVS Health is the largest company that has operations solely in the United States, operating close to 10,000 stores throughout the country.