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An independent review about
Boots the Chemists - UK Health Supermarket

Reviewed at Zyra's website: Personal experience - We speak as we find.

BOOTS - the well-known Chemist's shop, was advertised at this website from September 24th 2002 and this page continued to be positive about the place up until the 27th March 2006. After that day, because of something which someone at Boots said, we are ceasing to advertise Boots the Chemist! This site is no longer an affiliate of Boots. In my opinion the company owes me an apology!

A person representing Boots said "we don't want to be associated with you". I feel offended by that, especially as this website does so much good, and is so good for business for so many companies at the shopping portal and other pages throughout this site.

Of course it is their prerogative to miss out on a good thing. I think it makes poor business sense, and I also regard the argument as foolish that if a website has a surrealist appearance then it can't advertise Boots because they are in the pharmaceuticals business. I do not need a licence to be surrealist, and I do not need to take drugs for entertainment. I am a schizophrenic who sees hallucinatory items on a regular basis, so let's not get into some kind of silly argument about this.

Incidentally, this site will continue to advertise BOOTS, which as far as I know, according to a reputable book published in Oxford, are still an item of footwear with a history that goes back a long way. No corporate entity owns an ancient word, and newspaper reporters are free to write honest reviews which make comments about shops in the city, even if those shops' names are trademarks. In the same kind of way, Stelios can't stop you saying if something was EASY, ...and we prefer it if things aren't difficult.

Anyway, here's what this page used to say about Boots the Chemist:

"BOOTS - the well-known Chemist's shop, famous in the UK and throughout the world. Boots the Chemists was founded by Jesse Boot in the bygone days and has expanded to become the Health Supermarket, diversifying into cosmetics and beauty products, health and wellbeing products, nutrition supplements and advice, mother and baby essentials, photographic developing services, and even electricals and kitchen appliances. The main lines still centre around health, and you can find out more at Boots website. [previous LINK TO BOOTS deleted]

Chemists, pharmacists, they're clever people, and you expect them to think up the clever idea of diversification, so as well as selling medicines, pills and potions, and the odd surgical items, they start selling shampoo, and make-up, toothbrushes, and things that some people used to be shy about asking for. But BOOTS the Chemists have expanded into selling oodles of things, and have a great many BOOTS store branches around Britain. Boots Chemists have become in effect Boots Department Store, so there is in the average Boots shop a cosmetics department where you can sniff the fragrances before buying, whole racks of healthcare products, and a set of scales for weighing babies, alongside the whole paraphernalia which is important for baby care.

With the UK obsession with nutrition there is usually a vast range of nutritional supplements, vitamins, minerals, and various curious things such as St John's Wort.

Now with the Internet, Boots Chemists is out there on the Net, across the world, selling all manner of health-related items around the globe. But Internationally, as the term "Boots" can be confused with something that you might wear on your feet, and the domain business is a funny business, Boots the Chemist were boots.co.uk but then decided to be called wellbeing.com, only later becoming boots.com and having a further reshuffle, but let's not worry about that! [previous LINK TO BOOTS deleted]. The point is that Boots Chemist has taken on so wide a remit as to become a GENERAL HEALTH AND ADVICE NETWORK, so the idea of it being to do with wellbeing generally was presumably the notion behind the variant naming. Anyway, we are linking to the place next, but first, here's a quote from Boots themselves: "Boots' Wellbeing.com is the UK's leading Health and Beauty website, with over 12,000 products, including a wide range of special offers, and Advantage card points on all sales. Wellbeing.com is the exclusive on-line outlet for many leading brands, including No7, 17, and Ruby & Millie cosmetics, Toni & Guy haircare, together with virtually all Boots' Xmas Gift range. In addition, we provide a wealth of information, advice and magazine style features".

Impressive, don't you think? Here's the link..."

[HERE WAS THE LINK TO GO TO THE PLACE!]

http://www.boots.com and http://www.wellbeing.com affiliate program was with TradeDoubler and prior to that it was with Commission Junction. Also see old link page. You can type in the URLs if you like.

I think that was a nice page and I think the Boots Chemists company are missing out on a good thing by refusing to be associated with this interesting diverse website. Only time will tell, and we imagine that maybe the Boots company will at some time review the acceptance policy and come back to a good sensible open-minded pro-diversity policy on artistic taste. If there comes a time when Boots will accept this site as an affiliate, we will most likely be willing to advertise them. In such an eventuality this page would of course be changed to reflect this. If someone representing the company makes a genuine and reasonable apology, it will almost certainly be graciously accepted!

Customers, you may make up your own minds about what's appropriate.

This site is not an affiliate of Boots anymore, and this page is an independent review written as a personal opinion. Freedom of speech allows honest critiques such as this to be written.

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