Boots announces more closures including Liverpool store

The store is set to close in February

Boots has announced further closures as it looks to reduce its number of high street stores.

The health and cosmetics company plans to reduce its total number of shops in the UK from 2,200 to 1,900. In most cases, Boots claims shoppers should have an alternative store less than three miles away.

More than 200 stores were closed in 2019 and 2020 across 18 months. Boots also announced 48 opticians will close with the loss of 4,000 jobs.

Speaking at the time of the announcement in June last year, Boots’ owner Walgreens Boots Alliance said: “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 next wave of closures, Liverpool’s Landford Avenue store will shut its doors in February. The following will also be closing this year:

• Pemberton, Wigan (Jan 26)
• Staple Hill, Bristol (Jan 27)
• Littlehampton (Jan 29)
• Hough Lane, Leyland (Jan)
• Clifton, York (Feb 17)
• East Parade, Heworth (Mar 9)
• Rhos on Sea (Mar)
• Anglia Square, Norfolk (Mar)
• North Kenton, Newcastle (Mar)
• Pool, Redruth (Mar)
• Colwyn Bay (Apr 6)
• Caerleon Road, Newport (no specified date)
• Chepstow Road, Newport (no specified date)
• Carlyon Road, St Austell, Cornwall (no specified date)
• St Blazey, Cornwall (no specified date)
• Front Street, Prudhoe (no specified date)
• Lurgan (no specified date)
• Chard Road, Plymouth (no specified date)
• Mannamead Road, Plymouth (no specified date)
• Claremont Street, Plymouth (no specified date)
• Gestridge Road, Teignbridge (no specified date)
• Portland Walk, Barrow (no specified date)

Which stores have already closed

Several Boots stores have already closed in 2023 and so far in 2024. They are:

• Salford Shopping Centre, Greater Manchester (Feb 2023)
• Church Street, Malvern (Mar 2023)
• The Port Arcades Shopping Centre, Ellesmere (Mar 2023)
• King William Street, London Jun 2023)
• Heathside Road, Woking (Jul 2023)
• UEA campus (Jul 2023)
• Hamlet Court Road, Westcliff (Aug 2023)
• Holywell, Flintshire (Aug 2023)
• Windhill Road, Wakefield (Oct 2023)
• Upper Warrengate, Wakefield (Oct 2023)
• Glastonbury (Oct 2023)
• Uppingham Road, Leicester (Oct 2023)
• Guildford Road, Woking (Oct 2023)
• Kings Square, York (Oct 2023)
• Warminster (Oct 2023)
• Gorleston, Great Yarmouth (Nov 2023)
• High Row, Darlington (Nov 2023)
• Mudge Way, Plymouth (Nov 2023)
• Mount Pleasant, Exeter (Nov 2023)
• Kirkby Ashfield (Nov 2023)
• Cliftonville, Kent (Jan 2024)