Boots (The Chemist) has been sold .

62Granny

Apparently it has been Sold to a Canadian Billionaire for £7bn ,Its the Weston family who also own Allied Foods and A majority in Primark, it was previously owned by an American firm, I didn't know this, it will incude UK & Ireland
Retail, Boots opticians and it's No 7 range.
Hopefully it won't change things for us a consumers too much . Our store and others I go into sometimes seem to be run with very few staff members unfortunately.

The Weston family has strong links with the UK, notably Cornwall. W Garfield Weston was an MP for Macclesfield during WW2 and the Garfield Weston Foundation supports many UK charities.
Mr Garfield Weston used to stay at a hotel in Cornwall years ago; I remember him staying there when I was a teenager, as I was working there during my holidays.

I hope that the fate of Boots is more hopeful now it not owned by a private equity firm.

I use my local Boots quite a bit, I don't find it dull and dated. I tend to order on line from them and collect in store. I let my accrued loyalty points roll up and then get a Chanel product with those. Yes I'd miss Boots, unlike WH Smith, latterly TJ Jones rather a shambolic set up and never was a particularly appealing store.

GrannyGravy13

Best spend my Boots loyalty points in case the scheme is abandoned 🙀

Good thinking!

All the Boots stores near us are very dated and dull. Maybe it is time for a change.

I must admit to ordering my No 7 products on the £10. Tuesday offer rather than pay usually double in store

It will, though, eazybee because people don't use High Street shops any more. They moan about losing them and order everything from Amazon...

If you check mine was put up first, I did check

I hope it doesn't follow the path of W.H.Smiths, now TGJones and doing badly.

www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/1362178-Boots-Chemist-has-been-sold?msgid=31807535

There are two threads on this, which is a bit confusing.

Good point GG13

Best spend my Boots loyalty points in case the scheme is abandoned 🙀

My partner, as an ex employee, gets staff discount. Hope he doesn’t lose that. He’d already been made redundant because of a previous takeover. They treated the staff terribly and had to take it to a tribunal.