US Pharmacies
U.S. Location Dataset // 111,483

111,483 US pharmacies from the national provider registry, each classified as chain, franchise or independent — 43,822 chain, 66,370 independent and 1,291 franchise. That classification is the entire value of the file. Anyone can list the CVS and Walgreens stores; the commercially interesting question is which pharmacies are independently owned, and answering it requires matching every organization name against the corporate chains and then separately recognising that Health Mart, Good Neighbor and Medicine Shoppe are franchise banners over independently owned stores rather than corporate chains. Get that wrong and you either lose your best prospects or waste effort on stores with no local buying authority. Drug wholesalers, pharmacy software and point-of-sale vendors, compounding and specialty suppliers, and buyers consolidating independent pharmacy all work from exactly this split. Every record carries the national provider identifier, so it joins cleanly to prescribing and claims data.

All 111,483 records, as published — the complete set rather than a sample. That matters most for coverage and gap questions: put together the same list from partial searches and every location you miss reads as a gap that is not there, so the answer is wrong rather than merely late. Assembling the U.S.-wide coverage by hand also means one query per area against sources that cap what they return per search.