How well is BOOTS doing ??

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With all these big retail stores closing down about the last one left in my local town is BOOTS..
And there normally hardly anyone shopping in there everything I go in..

Anyone know how well BOOTS is doing ??
 
Quite well it seems. Their No7 brand is expanding into the US via through a partnership with Target.
 
good enough to be continually giving away products to 'joe blogs' for testing just so they get reviews posted on their web site.
 
Spook187 said:
Do people still shop at Boots where you can get far cheaper products at wilkinsons:confused:
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Evidently yes.

Your question is a bit like asking 'Why do people shop at supermarkets, when you can get groceries cheaper from markets and independents".

The answer is that people have different shopping habits and levels of income to spend.
 
Boots are really only still in competition with the supermarkets to speak generally (unlike Play and HMV who are competing with the cheap monkeys online) I think. They sell stuff that doesn't particularly have direct online competition, is toothpaste.com available? :D
 
Everytime I'm in my local boots it's busy enough. Thats true for the last 3 or 4 local boots I've had over the past few years.
 
They're doing well enough to have THREE shops on the same stretch of road, within half a mile of each other in one of the towns I deliver to. :rolleyes:
 
Grimley said:
They're doing well enough to have THREE shops on the same stretch of road, within half a mile of each other in one of the towns I deliver to. :rolleyes:
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one's the pharmacy, one's the optometrist's and the other is the photo place. Am I right? I'm right, aren't I? Am I right?
 
In Stafford, our Boots is too close to the Body Shop, so might be a bit of conflict there. Both seem to be busy enough though.

What about other high street shops? HMV is speculated to be the next one to pop its clogs after Jessops. Mobile networks seem to do well enough on the high street. Then there's Marks & Sparks, Co-Ops department store, H. Samuel, Sports Direct, Greggs, Clintons Cards, River Island, Supercigs (but we have to call it Supernews now because of the PC brigade). Wonder how they'll all do. The banks will be the last places standing.
 
estebanrey said:
They shifted their base to Switzerland so the reduced Corporation Tax is probably helping them out to.
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I was going to post that, too. I read that it is pretty much a HQ in name only (one dude in an empty office) to avoid paying us tax. I doubt the veracity of that, but the principle is there.
 
Boots stock an extensive amount of beauty and skin care products which not many other high street shops / supermarkets stock. They also do photo prints, pharmacy etc.

However in terms of fragrance they are not at all competitive. I can find cheaper fragrances online all the time. However this does not hinder them in the same way cheaper or easily accessible music did with music shops as most will people will go to Boots etc to try it out and then end up buying it from there as well.
 
Very well if you believe anything I heard. The mark-up on the No7 stuff alone is crazy.

Although the same can't be said for the manufacturing arm of the business(es)..
 
I think their points system for their advantage card is pretty good as well and that is probably a strong factor which keeps customer loyalty.

For instance at Christmas they did an advantage card offer, if I recall correctly, where if you spend £50 or more you get £10 back in advantage card points.
 
That's another thing. Why does everyone call it the pharmacy nowadays? When I read the word pharmacy, it makes me think of those spam emails advertising online pharmacies, viagra etc. Back in my days it was called the chemist. "Just popping down to the chemist m'love." etc
 
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