BOOTS will be closing more stores in just a few days as 300 will close for good.
The popular drugstore chain has confirmed that the nine stores marked so far will close for the last time.
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Boots will close more stores in just a few days as 300 of them close for good Credit: Getty
The closures are part of broader plans to reduce the total number of retail stores from 2,200 to 1,900.
When the plans were announced last month, Boots did not confirm which stores would close.
He reported that it would be from a location with multiple stores in one area.
Earlier this week, the health and beauty retailer exclusively revealed to The Sun which eight stores will be the first to close their doors this year.
Now one more store has been added to the list, bringing the total to nine.
Local newspaper reports indicate that the Holywell branch in Flintshire, North Wales will close on August 26.
Two other sites will close their doors in the coming days.
While others will not close their doors until the fall of this year.
Boots has confirmed that all staff working at these closing stores will be offered alternative roles within the company.
Here’s the full list of Boots locations that will be closing so far:
- Heathside Rd, Woking – end of July
- UEA Campus – end of July
- Hamlet Ct Rd, Westcliff-on-Sea – August 1
- Holywell, Flintshire (Wales) – August 26
- Windhill Road, Wakefield – October 6
- Upper Warrengate, Wakefield – 7th October
- Glastonbury – October 13
- Guildford Road, Woking – late October
- Gorleston, Great Yarmouth – November
A Boots spokesperson said: “We can confirm that the stores listed are part of Boots’ previously announced store consolidation program.
“All team members at these stores will be offered alternative roles.”
The drugstore chain employs more than 52,000 team members in total and the broader closures are not expected to result in layoffs.
It will close a total of 300 stores in the UK and 150 in the US.
Boots said he regularly checks locations “to make sure they are where our customers need us most.”
The bosses added that it would be a “consolidation” of stores in close proximity to each other.
They say the decision to close the stores was not taken lightly.
It comes after Boots closed several stores this spring, before closing another in early June.
Among the stores that have already closed are those in Salford, Ellesmere and another in London.
Boots said that in every case there was an alternative store less than three miles away.
In 2020, Boots reported that 48 opticians were closing with the loss of 4,000 jobs.
It also closed more than 200 stores in an 18-month period starting in 2019.
Boots is not the only pharmacy chain to close its sites, earlier this year Lloyds closed all its sites inside Sainsbury’s stores, with two more closing next week.
It has been struggling with losses for several years and has closed 76 stores in 2022.
Retailers are feeling the pinch of the pandemic, while shoppers are cutting back on spending due to rising inflation.
High energy costs and the post-pandemic shift to online shopping are also taking their toll and many high street stores are struggling to stay in business.
New Look will close the shutters on more of its stores before the end of July.
Asda, which has more than 600 branches across the country, will close two Asda Living stores this summer.
Amazon will close several stores in a few days as it prepares to open two new locations.
Iceland will close another supermarket in the next few days.
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