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For Pride Month this June, our WBA Pride Alliance group created lots of great content to share with our colleagues to celebrate progress and raise awareness of issues facing the LGBT+ community. The group held virtual Global Coming Out Panels where LGBT+ colleagues and allies from across Walgreens Boots Alliance were invited to talk about their experiences of coming out in both their personal and working lives. You can see highlights from the Coming Out Panel here:
With tens of thousands of people starting treatment for cancer while the country has been on lockdown, and many others having their treatment paused or delayed, access to remote, trusted cancer healthcare advice has never been more important. So we're delighted to be able to offer continued support from our Boots Macmillan Information Pharmacists with a free, online service, created in partnership with digital healthcare provider Livi and Macmillan Cancer Support, for those who are shielding, or would prefer to stay at home. Read more here:
It has been 1 year since we switched from plastic bags to brown paper bags, removing over 900 tonnes of plastic from our store operations each year! The bags are made from unbleached, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified recycled brown paper, which is printed with water-based inks so the bags can be easily recycled at home. Find out more about what we're doing to reduce our impact on the environment:
Over the last couple of weeks we have virtually opened our doors to Nottingham Trent University students as part of the Grads4Nottm scheme. Now in its sixth year, the programme raises awareness of the wide range of employment opportunities open to graduates in the region. The four students were set challenges to complete based on real-world examples, as well as providing a snapshot into what it’s like to work for Boots UK. Read more here -
Amanda Thomson, a Store Manager at the busy Boots Silverburn Shopping Centre store in Glasgow, says her team’s spirit has never been stronger as they continue supporting their local community during the #COVID19 pandemic. Click here to read 'A Day in the Life: Managing a Boots UK store during a pandemic':
Boots Beauty consultations have gone virtual! From today, we're launching our new free online beauty consultation service, where customers can get great premium beauty advice from our Boots Beauty Specialists on skincare, cosmetics or self-care. Find out more and book here:
Beauty is back at Boots, and here's what it will look like... We will begin to re-open beauty halls with new safe shopping measures in place, including no contact beauty advice, new product testing methods, upgraded colleague PPE, new social distancing guides and equipment and customer hand sanitising stations. Read more here:
From new PPE to hand washing stations and queue management systems, we've introduced a number of new measures to ensure safer shopping for customers visiting our stores. Read more here: https://www.boots-uk.com/our-stories/boots-uses-lockdown-learnings-to-keep-customers-and-colleagues-safe-with-new-measures/
We continue to hear so many amazing stories about our colleagues and how they are supporting their local communities during these difficult times, so we just want to say to our colleagues in our stores, pharmacies, warehouses, out on the roads or working from home, wherever you are... THANK YOU.
Donna and Zoe work in our Early Careers team recruiting all our apprentices and graduates, but recently they've put their normal day jobs aside and are supporting at our e-pharmacy in Leicester to ensure our patients receive their much-needed prescriptions during this time. Read their blog about their experience so far: https://www.boots.jobs/supporting-the-boots-online-prescription-service/
