Boots Sale

Africat

catswiththumbs wrote: »

Boots would rather destroy goods than let people buy more than 6. Such a silly rule - they would rather destroy items than put money in the till. A very strange business model indeed. I was willing to take a load of stuff on Friday and clear the shelf but was told yet again "you're only allowed 6". It was 4pm and an hour or so left until they closed and still they wanted other customers to have the opportunity of buying them. "If you take them all there'll be none left for other people". Isn't that the idea?? Clearance means you want to clear the shelf and get rid of your stock - I'm a customer that wants to clear it for you and you won't let me.

I don't understand why they would still have that rule come 90% day, if they've not shifted the stock by then you'd think they'd just want to see the back of it! Particularly considering a lot of what they have come 90% day is the stuff that they just can't shift!

Africat

Figgi wrote: »

The issue with giving them to charity shops is as you said a lot don’t want them currently as it will mean storing till next year.

There is also the issue of some people trying to return them to Boots as unwanted gifts

I know its probably a bit labour intensive but they could just cut the barcodes out to prevent returns before they donate or give to customers.

Africat

Browsing in store today I saw the My Mood range or whatever it is! Hadn't noticed it as a regular range before.
Noticed they had the body wash and scrub which are £6 and £8 each that were part of the sets they had loads left of! I hadn't been sure if they were meant to be targeted at kids or teens previously, but from looking at the range it seems more geared towards teens (hence the Body scrub being included). Even though the packaging made it look more like kids stuff.

Figgi

Africat wrote: »

I don't understand why they would still have that rule come 90% day, if they've not shifted the stock by then you'd think they'd just want to see the back of it! Particularly considering a lot of what they have come 90% day is the stuff that they just can't shift!

Most stores don't as it is totally at the managers discretion. It sounds as if it is something personal with the poster and the store.:mad:

I would suggest tweeting Seb James the newish CEO

Figgi

kerri_gt wrote: »

Charities often run gift wrap stalls (where volunteers wrap presents for a donation) at Christmas, so wrap could easily be dontated to such places for that.

If only it was so easy. It is like when Boots used to do swimwear. That was also given away or destroyed at the end of the season. Again a lot got destroyed due to lack of charity takers.

Figgi

Africat wrote: »

I know its probably a bit labour intensive but they could just cut the barcodes out to prevent returns before they donate or give to customers.

As you say it is labour intensive especially where items inside the outer packing may have barcodes on as well.

Figgi

calleyw wrote: »

What about makeup and smellies going to local hospices.


In my county the council run collection points of toiletries for teenage children who's parents can't afford to buy them.


Woman who have escaped domestic violence.


They would be grateful for makeup to smellies. Not sure about gift wrap and gift tags.



But very shocking and wasteful


Yours


Calley x

I would suggest you let those places know and suggest they get in touch with the local Boots, and vice versa.

catswiththumbs

Figgi wrote: »

Most stores don't as it is totally at the managers discretion. It sounds as if it is something personal with the poster and the store.:mad:

I would suggest tweeting Seb James the newish CEO

Figgi - it doesn't matter which store I go to, they all have this hard and fast rule of no more than 6 items. They don't have any signs up stating this whereas Lidl have signs up when they have special offers to say "6 per customer". If Boots had signs up fair enough but one member of staff even told me it was the law. Yeah right.


I have links with people who work for a community food bank/toiletries bank/clothing bank and would love to be able to buy clearance stock for them in abundance (when the items are really cheap and I can afford to do it). No chance in Boots as you can only have 6. Superdrug on the other hand will go and search the stockroom for me for more cheap items. Just shows how different attitudes can be.

kerri_gt

catswiththumbs wrote: »

Figgi - it doesn't matter which store I go to, they all have this hard and fast rule of no more than 6 items. They don't have any signs up stating this whereas Lidl have signs up when they have special offers to say "6 per customer". If Boots had signs up fair enough but one member of staff even told me it was the law. Yeah right.


I have links with people who work for a community food bank/toiletries bank/clothing bank and would love to be able to buy clearance stock for them in abundance (when the items are really cheap and I can afford to do it). No chance in Boots as you can only have 6. Superdrug on the other hand will go and search the stockroom for me for more cheap items. Just shows how different attitudes can be.

At the 70% off sale there were most definitely people buying more than 6 of many items (entire shelf end of S&G anyone? Or perhaps you'd prefer to take every single Lynx set madam?) so I guess it depends on individual stores / areas.

Personally I'm all for the 6 item rule in instances like that to make it fairer for all, but also see the point about items on final clearance just before a store closes. Still, 6 is better than 0 to help out I guess.

catswiththumbs

kerri_gt wrote: »

At the 70% off sale there were most definitely people buying more than 6 of many items (entire shelf end of S&G anyone? Or perhaps you'd prefer to take every single Lynx set madam?) so I guess it depends on individual stores / areas.

Personally I'm all for the 6 item rule in instances like that to make it fairer for all, but also see the point about items on final clearance just before a store closes. Still, 6 is better than 0 to help out I guess.

I agree with you about the 70% off sale. It would be easier if I didn't have to make several trips to the store (I'm 5 miles away so 10 miles round trip) just to come away with 6 items each time. By the time I've paid bus fare or petrol it means the items are far more expensive. Just means I cannot help the food bank as much as I would like to. Buying 50 shower gels at say 50p in one trip = £25 plus bus fare £4 (£29). Buying the same quantity at 6 at a time = 8 trips. Therefore a total of £57. Almost double the cost. Plus the chances are the stock will have gone before I can buy it all. Never mind - my business just goes to Superdrug instead of Boots.