Boots to close 4 major stores with high street fashion brand to follow (Image: Getty) Boots and Next , long-standing fixtures of UK high streets , are facing significant changes. Boots, the go-to for health and beauty products, has grown into an industry titan over its 150-year tenure on the high street. However, it's now adapting to modern times by closing hundreds of branches to consolidate stores and save £618million.

The plan for mass closures was announced in June 2023. As it stands, Boots has closed 253 stores of the 300 earmarked for closure shortly, leaving 47 expected to close by summer's end . function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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