Boots - the Store

Advantages: Quality products all under one roof
Disadvantages: None

...Everybody's favourite High Street chemist and beauty store! The Boots Company PLC is a chain of high street stores known for their pharmacy and beauty/health products. You can find a Boots on just about every high street in Britain. In fact Boots has approximately 1,500 stores in the UK and abroad. This is the thing I like most about it, you are always guaranteed to find a store wherever you are in the country which makes it easy when you need to buy a repeat brand or just need to pop into one quickly because you have left your toothbrush at home on a weekend away. Boots was founded in Nottingham in 1849 by a gentleman called John Boot, hence the name and turned into a chain by his son Jesse. Boots stores are very easy to spot and recognize on the high street. They include a big blue sign with Boots written on it in cursive white...

Spottydog11 24.09.2008 · Read review
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boots

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: n/a

...Boots the chemist is a great shop when it come a shop that caters for a wide variety of your needs. You have the chemist, photo development, opticians along with the wide variety of products, from perfume, hair care, cosmetics, toiletries, baby care, sunglasses, baby clothes, medication, food, digital camera's and may other electrical beauty products. When it comes to Christmas they have a wide variety of gifts for people of all ages to suits a wide variety of price ranges. At Christmas boots is great as they have a special offer that they have every year, which is 3 for 2 which is when you get the cheapest product out of the three for free, which is fantastic as that is what you need when it comes to Christmas is to save money where possible. Boots also have a great invention called a boots advantage card which allows you to...

jo_field26 23.10.2008 · Read review
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Boots!

Advantages: You can buy most things here
Disadvantages: Some things are slightly more expensive than other places

...Ive been thinking about writing an op on Boots for months, but theres just a million and one things to say about it, so Ive been holding off. But since Ive been gone for such a long time I might aswell come back with some big ops! "Boots The Chemist" is one of the best known retail names in the UK, providing health & beauty products that "enhance personal wellbeing." This covers everything from home essentials like toothpaste and deoderant to high end makeup products from Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Boots employ around 75,000 people and their products are sold in 130 countries worldwide. As well as retailing, they have international sales and marketing operations and also develop and manufacture their own products. They have loads of their own ranges, such as No7, 17, and Natural Collection to name just a few. Boots stores...

NataliePhelan 21.03.2005 · Read review
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Boots

Advantages: Convenient, loyalty points system, frequent special offers
Disadvantages: Some overpriced items

...Boots is a well-known chemist with stores up and down the country. If you don't have one near you, or find it inconvenient, you can buy products from the website at http://www.boots.com. Boots sell cosmetics, medicines, perfumes, haircare products, even sandwiches, and they are even branching out into areas like Botox, photo-processing, opticians, and laser-eye surgery! I have seen these advertised, but I have not used these services, so I can't comment on them. I have two stores near me, but I'm concentrating on the Trafford Centre branch for now. It is spread out into two floors - the ground floor deals with photo-processing and baby products, ie: nappies, bottles, etc. The upper floor is dedicated almost entirely to cosmetics, haircare products, etc, with a small section for the food (sandwiches, crisps, drinks, etc...

jeszikca 01.06.2003 · Read review
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in the boot!

Advantages: Conveniently located and stocks the esentials
Disadvantages: a bit more expensive then other shops

...In almost every shopping centre and walkway you will find a Boots store. Quick history lesson: Boots was established in 1849 by a man named John Boot and his son jesse. The company was sold to an American drug company in the 20's and was sold back to British owners in the 30's. In 1991 Boots bought the company Halfords which sold bicycle, car and camping equipment. Boots later sold Halfords in 2002. The company manufactures its own brand of painkillers, vitamins and other such drugs. Another interesting fact found is that in 2005 Boots was looking into selling sex toys but later abandoned that idea. Would have been interesting popping into your local Boots for some face wash and a vibrator, (*immature giggle*). In general Boots is a convenient store selling many different items stuff from toothpaste to camera films. Some things can be...

znh3ra54 12.06.2009 · Read review
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Puts the Boot(s) up all the others.

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...I would just like to write a review on Boots, based on the main store in the Centre of Plymouth's main shopping centre. The Boots store I am reviewing is in Drake Circus, which is a fairly new shopping centre in the middle of Plymouth. Boots has had a long prescence in Plymouth, and there has always been a shop within 100 yards or so of where it actually is now from what I can remember. The original place that housed Boots is known locally, by the affectionate name of 'Boots Corner' - but should you wish to find a place in Plymouth, then I can honestly say that if it is in this area then don't be surprised if you hear Boots Corner being talked about. However, I digress and so back to the subject in hand. Once you walk in to Boots, you can be nothing but amazed at the brightness of the shop. There is nothing but white walls and so...

dynamicnurse 30.05.2009 (22.09.2009) · Read review
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Boots

Advantages: Reliable name & Advantage Points
Disadvantages: Prices can be dearer than Superdrug

...I sometimes check out product prices when I am in Superdrug or some other chemist and notice that prices can sometimes be a bit cheaper than in Boots. I usually do try and do my shopping in Boots for my toiletries as I find it handy when the points on my advantage card add up. The advantage card enables you to get 1 point for every 25 pence that you spend in the store, and quite often they do double or triple point weekends so the points can fairly add up. I save them up for Christmas time and find them handy for buying extras for my son and two nieces. Which is why I usually try to buy my toiletries in Boots as every little helps!! Boots is a well stocked, tidy, well presented store. It's also quite a bright store with Boots emblazened on the front of the store in blue writing with white background. There are many...

jules.34 18.07.2006 · Read review
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BOOTS - NO LONGER JUST "THE CHEMIST"

Advantages: Advantage points; Health and Beauty products; much more
Disadvantages: Can be expensive; poor customer service.

...Boots is one of my favourite retail shops. It is one of the most famous and desired cosmetic chain-stores. BOOTS THE CHEMIST The first thing I discovered when I came to the UK years ago was the Boots store at Heathrow airport in duty-free. I entered the shop and I was very impressed by how organised it was; I found everything - from beauty products, food and even baby clothes; all under the same roof. So I decided then, that, when I'm settled in, I would look for a Boots store and explore more! When I settled in, I hit the shops, looking for Boots stores; I knew later that the shop is called "Boots the Chemist" and I found two of them near where I lived: one was a big store and the other was a lot smaller, with limited shelves and fewer products. Quick information about the store. Boots originally was...

karimkha 18.09.2008 (20.09.2008) · Read review
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KINKY BOOTS

Advantages: emotional, genuine, believable characters
Disadvantages: plot was sometimes predictable and story dragged on, not really a comedy

...★★KINKY BOOTS★★ Kinky Boots is a British comedy/drama movie which was released on October 7th 2005. The film was directed by Julian Jarrold whom also directed Becoming Jane in 2007. The film was written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, and the plot for the film was inspired by the true story of a Traditional English men's shoe factory in Northampton which started producing shoes and boots for transvestites in order to keep the business thriving and in order to maintain the jobs for the local community. Kinky Boots has a BBFC rating of 12 due to some sexual content and bad language. The film has an average run time of approximately 107 minutes. Kinky Boots portrays the story of Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) whom inherits the family's Traditional Shoe Business in Northampton after his father dies suddenly...

just.bcoz 15.05.2008 (18.05.2008) · Read review
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W'ASDA he the HBOS who gotta BOOTS!!!

Advantages: Still available on High Street
Disadvantages: Not ethical anymore

...Alliance BOOTS Retailer Title: W?ASDA he the HBOS who gotta BOOTS!!! Owned by: KKR New York Equity Firm and Stefano Pessina From July 1st 2009, shamed ex-banker Andrew Hornsby will take over as CEO of Alliance Boots. I was looking for a shocking headline for the last few days for this article and plumped for this one. Mad dogs and Englishman, the whole vision spells utter disaster for the Alliance Boots retailers who have been solvent since 1849, thanks to shop keeper Jesse Boot. I don?t think Jesse Boot would have approved of his brand 160 years on especially as it has been taken over by an Italian billionaire named Stefano Pessina; but then again, Mr. Boot wouldn?t of thought his little shop would be worth 7.00 Billion Pounds Stirling, when it merged in 2005 with Alliance Chem. He definitely wouldn?t have approved...

1st2thebar 17.06.2009 · Read review
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