Working at Boots

I work in Boots the Chemist and thought a thread devoted to fellow employees would be useful to chat about our thoughts on work. I enjoy working at Boots in general its good fun and the people are nice.

The only thing i realy dislike about Boots is the uniform! I find that the old-fashioned looking tunic with the buttons down the front in that horrible polyester material is too hot in summer and cold in winter. It's too long and hard to move around in and being plain white its too hard to keep clean and mine has lots of pulled threads where it catches on things.

I suppose the uniform does probably look quite good and professionsal when it is new but it just isn't practical...

I work in Boots the Chemist and thought a thread devoted to fellow employees would be useful to chat about our thoughts on work. I enjoy working at Boots in general its good fun and the people are nice.

The only thing i realy dislike about Boots is the uniform! I find that the old-fashioned looking tunic with the buttons down the front in that horrible polyester material is too hot in summer and cold in winter. It's too long and hard to move around in and being plain white its too hard to keep clean and mine has lots of pulled threads where it catches on things.

I suppose the uniform does probably look quite good and professionsal when it is new but it just isn't practical...

At my branch they pay £4.12 to under 18's and time and a half on a sunday. Not too sure about over 18's though. The perks are pretty decent though, 22.5% off boots stuff and 12.5% off other brands. In my store we can have all the testers too some aint even been used. I got 10 urban decay eyeshadows on sat woth £100 for free

What is the going rate at Boots and do you get Sunday rate? For 18+ that is

I'm applying for a job at Boots and was wondering how long do they take to reply to applications?

I know they are desperate as the windows are plastered with vacancy posters. Also are the interviews hard?

Is the company a good company the way they treat their employees etc. Don't want to join a bad company that's all.

I work at boots, i have done since our store first opened about a year and a half ago, our store is a mess and really disorganized too, nothing ever gets done. nevertheless i still enjoy it, (most of the time) .They allways forget to pay me the right amount when i work bank holidays aswell.

Yestarday we were told that they are going to close down our store, it is up for sale. They told us that it will either be sold to another pharmacy company, or it will just be completly closed down!!!! It only opened 18 months ago, and never made as much money as they wanted, so i don't think any other pharmacy company would be interested in buying it. They are not going to give any staff store transfers, we will have to fill in application forms and go for interviews if we want to work for boots again!!!! It will close in late july, they said there will be no new product lines sent to us, and the store will be gradually "wound down" untill then. We are all quite annoyed because it feels like the company doesn't really give a damm about us!! Has anyone else experienced or heard of anything like this?? apparntely its to do with the merger with Alliance-Unichem, and there are more stores on "the black list".

The only thing i realy dislike about Boots is the uniform! I find that the old-fashioned looking tunic with the buttons down the front in that horrible polyester material is too hot in summer and cold in winter. It's too long and hard to move around in and being plain white its too hard to keep clean and mine has lots of pulled threads where it catches on things.


We have finally been given our new uniforms which we were promised ages ago and they are so much better than the old ones!!! We have got new trousers and new white tunics. The tops are in the same white material as the old ones but they zip up the back instead of having buttons on the front and the blue edging is thicker and they also have handy pockets on the front. There is a pocket for pens on the trousers rather than on the white top which stops ink stains showing up (i had this problem with my old uniform!) Even though the tunics will be hard to keep clean like the old ones the best thing is we have all been issued with new navy tabards to protect them which makes such a difference. Most people don't like them but I wear mine all the time and already it has done its job a few times stopping my tunic getting stained. The new uniforms look so much better than the old ones, even with the tabard on top and it is much more practical and comfy. We even have new gold coloured name badges to go with it.

Anyone else got the new uniform yet? Do you prefer it? Customers have even commented on how much better we look!

Hi Bitbob, We have just started last week to wear are new uniforms, they do seem to be much more comfy and more professional, the tabards certantly help to keep the uniform cleaner and smarter. It's just a shame a lot of the younger member of staff don't wear them im 24 and I do!


One youngester the other day spilt a load of shower cream down her tunic and she said in the staff room **** if only I was wearing a tabard! Needless to say she now wears one!