With just eight shopping days to go before Christmas, Boots UK is on hand to help you have the smoothest and easiest run up to the big day – without having to venture further than your local high street.
Boots customers are already enjoying the convenience of Order & Collect and over 70% of boots.com orders placed in November used our Order & Collect service. In fact, at our busiest online trading hour on Pink Friday, almost six customers per second chose to Order & Collect their Soap & Glory Star Gift to make sure they got hold of their The Next Big Thing™ by Hattie Stewart Christmas beauty bundle as soon as possible. You too can trust us to deliver sackfuls of Christmas gifts on time and for free to over 2,300 stores across the UK.
So, don’t spend your week waiting in and wondering or braving the stampedes – Order & Collect the brands you and your family love from Boots UK and you can relax and enjoy those last few days before Christmas.
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Figure based volume sold between 7:00am and 8:00am on 12 December 2014
Place a boots.com order via any of our ordering channels (phone, internet or store) before 6pm, for collection in store after 12pm the next day. This service is available Monday to Saturday in over 2300 stores and selected stores on Sunday. This service excludes the Scottish Highlands/Islands, Jersey/Guernsey and Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland stores. See our www.boots.com/storelocator for your local store opening hours.
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About Boots UK
Boots UK is the leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer in the UK, with close to 2,500* Boots UK stores and over 60,000* employees. Boots UK’s purpose is to help customers look and feel better than they ever thought possible. With customers at the heart of the business, Boots UK is committed to providing exceptional customer and patient care, be the first choice for pharmacy and healthcare, offer innovative products 'only at Boots' such as the UK’s leading skincare brand No7, all delivered with the great value our customers love. Created over 160 years ago, the Boots brand is still at the heart of the communities it serves.
Boots UK is a member of Alliance Boots, a leading international, pharmacy-led health and beauty group delivering a range of products and services to customers. Working in close partnership with manufacturers and pharmacists, Alliance Boots is committed to improving health in the local communities it serves and helping its customers and patients to look and feel their best. Its focus is on growing its two core business activities of: pharmacy-led health and beauty retailing and pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution, while increasingly developing and internationalising its product brands. Alliance Boots has a presence in more than 26* countries and employs over 120,000* people. Alliance Boots has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses in 10* countries and operates more than 4,550* health and beauty retail stores, of which more than 4,450* have a pharmacy, with a fast growing online presence. In addition, Alliance Boots has around 600* optical practices, of which around 180* operate on a franchise basis, and hearingcare services in around 430* locations. Alliance Boots pharmaceutical wholesale businesses deliver over 4.5* billion units each year to more than 175,000* pharmacies, doctors, health centres and hospitals from over 370* distribution centres in 19* countries.
In June 2012, Alliance Boots announced that it had entered into a strategic partnership with Walgreens Co. (Walgreens), the largest drugstore chain in the US. In August 2014, Alliance Boots and Walgreens communicated that they plan to merge in the first quarter of calendar 2015 to create the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise, which will be named Walgreens Boots Alliance.
* Figures are approximations as at 31 March 2014, with the addition of Farmacias Ahumada data at the date of its acquisition on 11 August 2014, and include associates and joint ventures.