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With customer demand higher than ever before, this Black Friday our Boots.com team have been breaking some records: 🚛 Over 113,000 orders shipped out to customers’ homes in one day. 🤖 200 Cobots supported our colleagues with picking, packing and dispatching orders. 📈 60% increase in website traffic vs 2019
We have created over 31,000 quiet shopping slots for those who want to pick up the items and advice they need whilst the store is quieter, or for those who cannot make it to store during the day, such as key workers. "Voted the safest retailer on the high street, the health and safety of our customers and colleagues is the most important thing to us, so we are offering this service to allow customers access to our stores when they are quieter or at times when they are available," Tracey Clements, Chief Operating Officer at Boots UK. Find out more:
Have you seen our #LegendaryLeaders blog series? This month we get to hear from Sarah Crawley, our Director of Wellness, about her career journey so far, getting out of her comfort zone and of course, all things wellness. "I think one of the best things about my career at Boots has been the opportunity to develop & learn new parts of the business." Click here to read Sarah's blog:
It truly has been a year like no other and at Boots, we recognise that acts of care and kindness are what is needed most. That’s why our newly launched Christmas campaign ‘What the World Needs Now’ is centred around acts of kindness, care and great value for all. Giving back to those in need, we will provide hygiene essentials to some of the millions of people in the UK living in hygiene poverty, with a donation of £1million worth of products to The Hygiene Bank. Click here to watch our new Christmas advert:
Warehouse opportunities available! Our fantastic teams across our supply chain have played a crucial role in helping us support our customers and patients throughout the pandemic and to support with increased demand we have a number of opportunities to join us at our warehouses in Nottingham and Burton on Trent. Colleague health and safety remains a top priority and at our warehouses we’ve introduced a number of important measures to keep our colleagues safe, including: temperature checking, PPE and perspex screens, hand washing facilities, staggered shift patterns and social distancing measures. Immediate starts available, apply now via the links below: https://uk.gigroup.com/jobs-at-boots/ https://www.am2pm.uk.com/branch-finder/
Behind the scenes at our virtual Premium Beauty Conference. Thanks to our amazing Boots Beauty Crew and our brand partners for making this happen for our colleagues!
"The more we can create an environment where people can be themselves, the greater engagement we’ll see. I think giving people an opportunity to talk and share and realise they're not alone and that there are other people with shared experiences, helps to bring down some of those walls." During Black History Month Walgreens Boots Alliance colleagues have been examining racial equity issues and Fauzia Somani, Boots UK Future of Pharmacy Director, and executive sponsor for our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) business resource group, shares how her experiences in the United States, UK and Canada have shaped her work at WBA in the interview below:
We are significantly reinventing and expanding our baby and toddler products and services, take a look below for a virtual tour of what ‘Baby’ will soon look like at Boots... From baby essentials to expert advice, to the arrival of our Mothercare range, discover how Boots is becoming the one-stop-shop for all things baby:
We're trialling a brand-new recycling scheme in our stores! Since signing the UK Plastic Pact in 2018, we’ve been championing reducing plastic waste in all areas of our business, so we’re delighted to be launching a take back scheme in partnership with No7, allowing customers to recycle beauty, health and wellness products in our stores. Customers will be able to scan their empty products using a mobile phone, adding them to their online ‘bank’, before heading to a participating Boots store to deposit at a recycle point. For every five products deposited, customers receive £5 worth of Boots Advantage Card Points. The deposited empties are then sent directly to our recycling partner ReWorked, where they will be formed into new products. The new scheme will be available in 50 Boots stores across the country from Thursday 24 September. Find out more here:
We’re pleased to be supporting the Macmillan Cancer Support Talking Cancer podcast series. In episode one, Marc Donovan, Chief Pharmacist Boots UK, joins host Emma B and Macmillan Chief Medical Officer Rosie Loftus to discuss ways to navigate a new normal with cancer and provide expert guidance on the most common concerns during the pandemic. Click here to listen:
