High street giant Boots is closing down its pharmacy in Leigh Broadway next month leaving its nearest store for collecting prescriptions in Hadleigh.
Signs have gone up in the 89 Broadway store announcing the closure of the store to customers.
The closure means the nearest Boots store for residents collecting prescriptions in the area will be in London Road, Hadleigh, the posters say.
Other Boots stores nearby are Rayleigh Road, in Eastwood, and Victoria Shopping Centre in Southend.
The Leigh Broadway pharmacy will be closing its doors to customers on Saturday, March 23.
It comes as the brand previously announced in summer of 2023, that they would be shutting down some stores with the aim to close some 300 stores across the country in 2024.
The US owners of the brand, Walgreens Boots Alliance at the time shared that the closures were in aim to optimise locations and opening hours.
As James Kehoem, global chief financial officer at Walgreens previously said: “We will continue to optimise our locations and opening hours and expect to close an additional 300 locations in the UK and 150 locations in the US."
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