Question: How many cvs stores are there in the usa?

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context: CVS Pharmacy (sometimes stylized as CVS/pharmacy) is a subsidiary of the American retail and health care company CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was also known as, and originally named, the Consumer Value Store and was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963. The chain was owned by its original holding company Melville Corporation since its inception until its current parent company (CVS Health) was spun off into its own company in 1996. CVS Pharmacy is currently the largest pharmacy chain in the United States by number of locations (over 9,600 as of 2016) and total prescription revenue. Its parent company ranks as the 7th largest U.S. corporation by FY2017 revenues in the Fortune 500. The parent company of CVS Pharmacy's leading competitor (Walgreens) ranked 19th for the same time period.
question: How many cvs stores are there in the usa as of 2016?
short_answers: 9,600

over 9,600
wikipage: CVS Pharmacy

context: On January 23, 2006, CVS announced that it had agreed to acquire the freestanding drug store operations of supermarket chain Albertsons. The deal included the acquisition of 700 drug stores trading under the Osco Drug and Sav-On Drugs banners, mostly in the midwestern and southwestern United States (with a concentration of stores in southern California and the Chicago area), and was formally completed on June 2, 2006.<ref name="CVS-Caremark-Aug-2006-8-K/A"></ref> Transition of Sav-On and Osco stores to the CVS brand was completed by December 2006. CVS now dominates the southern California market. Also included were Albertsons Health'n'Home (now CVS Home Health) durable medical equipment stores. Approximately 28 CVS Home Health locations are present in Arizona, California, and the Kansas City area, representing CVS's first venture into the specialized DME market.CVS had previously operated stores in southern California but completely withdrew from the market in 1993. CVS sold virtually all of the locations to Sav-On's then owner American Stores, who operated them under the name American Drug Stores. Many of the stores CVS gained in January 2006 had been the stores it owned prior to 1993. Before their re-acquisition, these stores were operated under the name Sav-On Express (the Express name was used to help customers identify these stores that did not carry all the lines of merchandise as compared to the larger, traditional Sav-On Drugs locations). CVS now operates over 6,200 stores in 43 states and the District of Columbia. In some locations, CVS now has two stores less than two blocks apart.
question: How many cvs stores are there in the usa as of 2006?
short_answers: over 6,200

6,200
wikipage: CVS Pharmacy

context: In 1990 CVS acquired the 490-store Peoples Drug chain from Imasco, which established the company in new mid-Atlantic markets including Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1994 CVS started PharmaCare Management Services. The parent company decided to focus on CVS in 1995, selling off Marshalls and This End Up. The following year, they let go of Footaction/Footstar, Meldisco, Linens 'n' Things, and KB Toys. The company, then decided to change its name from Melville Corporation to CVS Corporation. In 1997, Bob's Stores were also sold, and CVS nearly tripled its 1,400 stores after purchasing the 2,500-store Revco chain. CVS bought 200 Arbor Drugs locations in 1998, opened approximately 180 new stores, closed about 160 stores, and relocated nearly 200 existing stores from strip malls to freestanding locations. In 1999 CVS acquired Soma.com, the first online pharmacy, and renamed it CVS.com. The same year, CVS launched their CVS ProCare Pharmacy for complex drug therapies.
question: How many cvs stores are there in the usa before 1997?
short_answers: 1,400
wikipage: CVS Pharmacy

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knowledge: content: CVS Pharmacy, Inc. (stylized as Heart corazón.svgCVSpharmacy, previously CVS/pharmacy) is an American retail corporation. A subsidiary of CVS Health, it is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.[6] It was also known as, and originally named, the Consumer Value Store and was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963.[7] The chain was owned by its original holding company Melville Corporation from its inception until its current parent company (CVS Health) was spun off into its own company in 1996. CVS Pharmacy is currently the largest pharmacy chain in the United States by number of locations (over 9,600 as of 2016) and total prescription revenue.[8][5][9] Its parent company ranks as the fifth largest U.S. corporation by FY2020 revenues in the Fortune 500.[4] The parent company of CVS Pharmacy's leading competitor (Walgreens) ranked 19th for the same time period.
wikipage: CVS Pharmacy

content: In 1997, Bob's Stores were also sold, and CVS nearly tripled its 1,400 stores after purchasing the 2,500-store Revco chain. 
wikipage: CVS Pharmacy

content: Many of the stores CVS gained in January 2006 had been the stores it owned prior to 1993. Before their re-acquisition, these stores were operated under the name Sav-On Express (the Express name was used to help customers identify these stores that did not carry all the lines of merchandise as compared to the larger, traditional Sav-On Drugs locations). CVS now operates over 6,200 stores in 43 states and the District of Columbia.[23] In some locations, CVS has two stores less than two blocks apart.
wikipage: CVS Pharmacy
long_answer: CVS Pharmacy, Inc., previously CVS/pharmacy, is an American retail corporation headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island and was owned by its original holding company Melville Corporation from its inception until its current parent company was spun off into its own company in 1996. In 1997, CVS nearly tripled its 1,400 stores after purchasing the 2,500-store Revco chain. After January 2006, CVS operated over 6,200 stores in 43 states and the District of Columbia and in some locations, CVS has two stores less than two blocks apart. CVS Pharmacy is currently the largest pharmacy chain in the United States by number of locations, with over 9,600 as of 2016, and total prescription revenue and its parent company ranks as the fifth largest U.S. corporation by FY2020 revenues in the Fortune 500.