Boots to shut three more stores this month – check if your local store is closing down
Around 300 branches are set to close
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Boots is closing three more stores this month as the retailer pushes ahead with their consolidation plan.
With more store closures unveiled, Boots customers across the UK may want to check if their local is closing down.
In a move to consolidate the business, Boots announced it would only be closing sites that had another branch less than three miles away.
Around 300 stores are set to be axed, with many already shutting their doors for good.
Boots stores closures in March 2024:
The Mirror reported that Boots in Castlecroft in Wolverhampton shut on March 21, with another branch in Rhos-on-Sea, Wales, shutting for good on March 23.
Boots is shutting the door to three more stores this month
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Boots in Rainham, Kent, is then set to close on March 30 with the branch reportedly switching hands to the independent community pharmacy Jhoots, according to KentOnline.
By closing down certain stores, Boots aims to “concentrate team members” and invest more in individual stores.
A spokesperson said last year: "Evolving the store estate in this way allows Boots to concentrate its team members where they are needed and focus investment more acutely in individual stores with the ambition of consistently delivering an excellent and reliable service in a fresh and up-to-date environment."
In the event of a local branch closing, customers have been told to speak to the pharmacy team if they are worried about their prescriptions.
The company is consolidating “a number of stores in close proximity to each other” in the UK and explained that affected Boots workers have been offered “alternative roles”.
In the past week, the health and beauty retailer closed two branches in Teeside and in Sprowston, Norwich.
Stores along the high street in North Kenton, Newcastle, Welwyn Garden City and York have all lost a Boots pharmacy branch in the last few weeks.
The closures are set to continue with the Boots branch in Colwyn Bay, North Wales set to go on April 6.
GB News has previously reported the following Boots stores are set to close:
- Cliftonville, Kent - January 20
- Pemberton, Wigan - January 26
- Hough Lane, Layland, Lancashire - January 2024
- Landford Road, Liverpool - February 2024
- Clifton, York - February 2024
- Collington Mansions, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex - February 24, 2024
- Ankerside Shopping Centre, Tamworth, Staffordshire - March 2024
- Rhos on Sea, Wales - March 2024
- Anglia Square, Norfolk - March 2024
- North Kenton, Newcastle Upon Tyne - March 2024
- Pool, Redruth - March 2024
- Colwyn Bay, Wales - April 2024
- Caerleon Road, Newport - early 2024
- Chepstow Road, Newport - early 2024
- Carlyon Road, St Austell, Cornwall - early 2024
- St Blazey, Cornwall - early 2024
- Lurgan, Northern Ireland - no date
- Chard Road, Plymouth - no date
- Mannamead Road, Plymouth - no date
- Claremont Street, Plymouth - no date
- Portland Walk, Barrow - no date
- Gestridge Road, Teignbridge - no date
- Front Street, Prudhoe - no date.
GB News has contacted Boots for comment.
In a bid to focus more on individual stores, Marks and Spencer has also announced some store closures.
In October 2022, the popular retailer announced it would be closing 67 stores over the next five years.
Marks and Spencer is planning to concentrate more on its food-only stores and cut down its "full line" branches that stock home and clothing items.
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They want to reduce the number of "full line" stores from 247 down to 180 by 2028.
Despite the closures of some full line stores, the retailer plans to keep a high street presence and plans to open 104 new Simply Food shops.
If these plans go ahead, it will see an increase in M&S's Simply Food sites from 316 to 420.
The company will invest £480million in its "store rotation programme", leading to approximately 3,400 jobs being created.
Since M&S announced closures last year, these stores have already shut down:
- East Kilbride
- Fenchurch Street, London
- Meadowbank Retail Park, Edinburgh)
- Castleford
- Bolton
- Cardiff
- Manchester
- Swindon
- Birmingham city centre
- Barnsley town centre