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Boots Reviews

2.6 Rating 1,834 Reviews
39 %
of reviewers recommend Boots
2.6
Based on 1,834 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Postal Service, Courier
Average Delivery Time
Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery
Greater than 28%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
Greater than 78%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
Customer Service
1.9 out of 5
Avg Email Response Time
-1 hours
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process
Difficult
Returns Process
Could Be Better
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About Boots:

Buy health and beauty products online from the UKs most popular chemist, Boots. Find pharmacy services, prescriptions, baby, diet, fitness, hair products and perfume. Check out the huge selection of our online products, the number one store the UKs.

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Phone:

0845 609 0055

Location:

Boots Customer CarePO Box 5300
Nottingham
NG90 1AA

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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
We ordered a product from a third-party seller through Boots, but it didn’t suit us. We returned the unopened item within the two-week return period at the Marple store. The assistant in the store mentioned that the refund would be processed through our online account and didn’t provide a receipt. However, we never received the refund. When we contacted the store again, the staff denied our visit and the return, claiming we never handed over the product! The item cost nearly £200, and despite reaching out to multiple sources, we’ve received no assistance. The administration directs us to the store, and the store tells us to contact the administration. They even claim there’s no record of us on their cameras, and the footage has been erased! This situation is outrageous! We are in shock! Given that we are Ukrainians with limited English and unfamiliar with the local laws, this experience feels discriminatory, almost like racism. We are extremely disappointed and frustrated.
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Posted 3 hours ago
DO NOT NOT BUY FROM THIS COMPANY I bought my daughter a Christmas advent calendar there were several days where the box was empty and no product. This is obviously a massive disappointment to her as she looked forward every day to opening these in the morning. when I contacted boots they came back with several replies all of which very uncaring and very unfair such as bring the whole advent calendar back and we will refund part of your money. This is obviously not what I wanted as my daughter still had days to go of excitement before Christmas and opening the calendar. All I wanted was them to give me the missing days products for me to pass them onto my daughter. I assumed boot being a big supposedly reputable company would have done this no problem especially to a child’s advent calendar. I have some several times if they would be fair and make this right as I didn’t want to write reviews like this and go onto social media to warn people not to buy from them so they do not get disappointed in the future. I just received standard block answers probably copy and paste
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Posted 17 hours ago
Had to visit Boots, Devonshire walk, Derby to collect spare contact lenses as my order (paid for as a reward scheme) didn't turn up until 4 days later. What concerned me more was the fact the store was absolutely freezing. I would have stayed to purchase beauty products but it was just too cold. The poor staff were shivering, can't believe there was no heating on. Surely that would encourage sales? Also isn't there a legal requirement for the temperature to a working retail environment?
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Posted 4 days ago
Placed order with Boots on 18th December. For three Christmas presents Informed it would arrive in store on 21st. Did not arrive store stated that do not know when it will arrive. Contacted Boots customer service who also state they do not know when it will arrive. Have to wait until 27th December before they can send replacement order or issue a refund.What about people’s presents. They are still advertising that if you order today you can receive order on 24th December. NOT ACCEPTABLE BOOTS M
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Boots told me that my package was delivered by my local carrier when it was not. I contacted my local carrier who noted the item was sent by Boots but never actually received by them. Despite indicating this to Boots, sending screen shots, evidence etc, they held firm that I had received the package when I had not. Several emails went around the houses where I had to explain the scenario over and over, until an agent finally issued a replacement which, in fairness, arrived promptly. Boots were to follow up with an investigation form and liaise with my local carrier to explore what happened. Today I received an email stating that the carrier confirmed to them that the item was delivered (not true as I spoke with their customer care and they had not received it) and no refund was to be issued. I never asked for a refund, I asked for a replacement for the order that never arrived, which I duly received a week later. Customer care appears very disjointed and tends not to believe their loyal and long standing customers. I have shopped online and instore for years. I have never reached out before with a problem and when an issue arose, I discovered the process is awful. I was on hold for ages!! It was a miserable, frustrating and repetitive processes based wholly on the premise that I was being untruthful. I am not a liar Boots, this was a really negative experience, please do better.
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Posted 4 weeks ago
Thomas in the Whitgift Centre branch in Croydon was rude. I asked for a refund with a receipt and he said he could not hive me one. I then told him I had rights. He said he didn’t care but then gave me the refund. I would suggest Boots to train their staff and go by the ethos to respect their customers .
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Posted 1 month ago
Items arrived broken, part of the order was nail varnish. No padding or wrap within the box thus the nail varnish had smashed covering the contents. Immediately contacted customer service advised to complete a returns form & return which I immediately did. I sent the proof of purchase. It is now 2 months later and I am still waiting for my £148 refund. I contact Boot.com weekly and speak to friendly staff who tell me it is in hand but nothing happens. I am so disappointed.
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Posted 1 month ago
Absolutely disgusting customer service from Boots who have delivered an incorrect parcel. Our label has detached and reattached to another parcel - a black boohoo bag with a label for someone else on the other side clearly not from Boots as they deliver in a cardboard box and also the address on the picture the driver took has two lines in the address and ours has four lines 📦 Boots have failed to deliver the actual parcel scanning our label but obviously not on our parcel, Christmas presents for my girls costing £368!!! We’ve had multiple case references all not investigating the issue saying it’s been delivered, those on the phone clearly agree it’s not been delivered, won’t escalate the complaint to a supervisor when asked on the phone, also hung up on us when we asked to speak with a supervisor 😡 it’s been 3 weeks and no resolution AVOID AVOID AVOID ! Lesson is DO NOT buy from any Boots stores or online !!!
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Posted 1 month ago
Online ordering you have to shop from The voucher before you add things to your basket so if you’ve got different things with different vouchers you have to keep going back to each one before you order and then it doesn’t work rip off boots merry Xmas
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Posted 1 month ago
I ordered 3 gifts for my husband’s Christmas. Received the confirmation showing delivery a week hence but delivery to the last person I sent a gift to 2 years ago. I didn’t enter any delivery nor was asked. Contacted Boots (not easy). They can’t cancel nor change the delivery address. The recipient who does not live near me must either refuse the parcel or accept and return to their local Boots for refund. The gift is not for them!! Absolutely useless customer service I won’t be buying again that’s for sure. What a headache
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Posted 1 month ago
Boots Think That Their Customers Are Liars! I ordered aftershave from BOOTS (£73) on-line for our son's birthday. It was not in the box when it was delivered. The box was not damaged and had not been tampered with it had clearly never even been put in the box to start with. Customer Services just said it was packed in the box so basically don't believe you and we won't send a replacement and won't refund you and this is final and we won't be changing our mind. Ok so I thought standard first response because they must be getting scammed a lot with customers saying that they had not received items. Told them again that it was really not in the box and had retained the undamaged box and could send photographs etc - got the same response - we don't want to know. At this stage was feeling a bit aggrieved at basically being called a liar so wrote to Sebastian James the Boots CEO just got basically the same reply it was packed so the inference is that you are trying to scam us and are a liar go away. Made a formal complaint which they would not deal with and would not supply a copy of their company policy/procedure for dealing with formal complaints. Wish that I had looked at their reviews on Trustpilot before trusting them! It seems that there are a lot of others who have had the same experience and had items missing and had the same answer - get lost! BOOTS do you really think that so many people are going to the trouble of posting reviews if they really had received their orders and that so many people are liars and trying to scam you? Obviously - YOU DO! In July (2024) Chief Executive of Boots Sebastian James gave notice to Boots that he would be leaving in November (2024) I wonder why? They now have plans to close 1,200 of their stores in the United States as well as the some 300 UK closures. A brand with a 175 year history that we have all grown up with that now has a 70% 1 star rating from it''s customers on Trustpilot with only a 21% 5 star rating. What has gone wrong? Perhaps, you should have skipped your Christmas Advert this year and put the money into improving the Boots Customer Experience! £73 lost and feeling scammed by BOOTS is this part of their new cost saving business model - not actually sending orders out and keeping your money! This is sounding more and more like a Post Office Cover Up because they know that their automatic packing system has inherent faults but can't admit it!
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Posted 1 month ago
Very Bad Very Bad I ordered an item overpriced but it had a "free gift". We all know there is no such thing as a free gift. Boots despatched my order and THEN notified me that the "free gift" was unavailable. I then found the same item £12 less. I wrote to Boots and said I either want a full refund or the difference reimbursed . They declined and instructed me that I either take to a branch or the post office. Both these will incur my time , cost and parking. Boots should have notified me that they could not honour my order. I have not got to rush to a branch on way to airport to return and I have ordered at Lookfantastic for £12 less and a "free gift"
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Posted 1 month ago
Thought they were going to call the police when I asked for some paracetamol/codeine tablets, which are legal over the counter medication....serious bad bullying attitude, I hope these people lose their jobs when Boots close them. Closing them all down wouldn't matter a damn to me, as I won't be using them again
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Posted 1 month ago
There have been many reviews about Boots' poor service. My experience was very different. I went to the store at Kings Cross station wanting some medicine for my wife. The lady behind the till could not completely (and understandably) deal with these needs, but passed me to the pharmacist, Nouf. She spoke to my wife on the phone and recommended what she needed and, importantly, what she did not need. I have not used this service before, but this was an excellent customer experience which deserves to be highlighted and a public thank you to Nouf and her team.
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Posted 1 month ago
Boots customer service ,worst experience I have ever had staff not interested in helping .was told they could not spare the time it took to wait for the store to answer the phone .to handle my query .them wa basically told it was my problem and I had to sort it .will never shop at boots online again as no longer trust them . Still not got a refund or my product delivered .I have given you one star as there was not an option for 0
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Posted 1 month ago
Sent a defective online purchase back they have received it, I have tracking but they won't refund, emailed many times just being ignored Never again
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Posted 1 month ago
I received an on line order on the 16th October. I could smell acetone when I opened the order I found an OPI nail varnish had broken and covered the contents. I immediately contacted customer services and was advised to complete a returns form on line, which I did, and return the items for replacements or a refund. I did this and kept the proof of purchase which I emailed. It is now the 26th November. Initially I gave Boots a couple of weeks to send me replacements. I did not hear from Boots so I began contacting them. I always get friendly helpful staff who apologise and appear to be able to help but unfortunately nothing happens. It has been escalated to a manager but still no refund (I have given up on receiving replacements) the value of the order was £148 it is now 6 weeks and I am still waiting. It is completely unacceptable and surprising from what I believed was a reputable company.
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Posted 1 month ago
Worst experience ever, staff constantly giving wrong info regarding order had to phone up and email atleast 8 times and has taken an age to get a refund if only £6.99 and to top that boots review their own reviews to whether it’s good enough to put in their own website 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️how is that even allowed
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Posted 1 month ago
Boots -get a grip -ALWAYS TOP PRICE - now bottom of the pile - best you shut all your UK shops and relocate to TIMBUKTU
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Posted 1 month ago
can't believe I have come to use my boots card and they have taken more than £40 worth of points off me. I use it for Christmas presents each year. I shall no longer be using boots a gain. That was my money that earned last year. What a rip off
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Posted 1 month ago
Boots is rated 2.6 based on 1,834 reviews