A MAJOR pharmacy chain is set to close hundreds of branches located in supermarkets by tomorrow.
Lloyds Pharmacy will shut all of its 237 branches located in Sainsbury’s shops by the end of tomorrow, the supermarket has confirmed.
GettyLloyds Pharmacy is to close all of its branches in Sainsbury’s supermarkets tomorrow[/caption]
The chain previously announced that it would close these services by the end of 2023, but this has now been brought forward.
It means Sainsbury’s supermarkets in towns and cities in places like Nottinghamshire, Kent and Surrey will lose the service.
A Sainsbury’s spokesperson told The Sun: “At the start of this year LloydsPharmacy announced its decision to withdraw pharmacy services from Sainsbury’s stores.
“Since then, we have been working with them to ensure customers are clear on how they can access an alternative pharmacy provision to meet their needs.”
The supermarket added that it is finalising how it will fill the space left by the pharmacies, but this will vary from store to store.
The Sun has contacted Lloyds Pharmacy for comment.
Lloyds, which has 1,300 branches, has already closed the doors on half a dozen branches this month.
Pharmacies across the UK have struggled for years due to cuts in government funding and the soaring cost of medicine.
But Sainsbury’s shoppers aren’t the only ones losing out to their local pharmacies in-store.
Asda announced a proposal to close seven of its 254 in-store pharmacies in January.
Asda said it would look to close these pharmacies because of low customer usage.
The supermarket consulted on the move and confirmed the closures at the end of April but didn’t say when the pharmacies would shut for good.
However, Asda has told The Sun that all seven pharmacies will close on Thursday, August 3.
The closures will take place in Asda supermarkets in the following locations:
SouthamptonSeahamFelthamBlackburnAdelWest BradfordWeston-Super-Mar
Community pharmacies are essential for providing services to local neighbourhoods but hundreds have been shut in recent years.
Pharmacies across the UK have struggled for years due to cuts in government funding and the soaring cost of medicine.
Chemists are also being asked to pick up extra slack from the NHS by providing more services, such as vaccinations.
The pharmacy industry has lost £1.6billion in the last ten years as the health service’s pharmacy contract struggles to keep pace with inflation.
As a result, pharmacies are facing big cuts to their real-term funding, which is leading to the closures.
Pharmacy chain Boots also closed a string of its own stores in the spring – with more still to come.
Retailers in general have also been battling rising costs as inflation sends prices soaring and less demand among cash-strapped punters.
More companies in England and Wales went bankrupt in the first quarter of 2023 than at any point over the last three years, according to the Insolvency Service.
Below is the full list of Lloyds pharmacies closing in Sainbury’s supermarkets tomorrow:
Alperton Alphington RoadAltrinchaAmblecote Apsley Mills Archer RoadArnoldAshton MossBadger Farm Bagshot RdBallymena In Bamber BridgeBanbury BarnstapleBarnwood BathBeaconsfield BerrydenBicester Biggleswade Bishop Auckland BlackheathBognor Regis BoltonBramingham Park BrentwoodBridgend Broadcut Brookwood Burnley Burpham Bury St Edmunds Bybrook Calcot Cannock CanterburyCarlisle Castle PointChaddesden Chadwell Heath Chafford Hundred Cheadle Chester Chesterfield IChichester Chippenham IChiswickChristchurch CobhamColdhams Lane Coreys Mill Court House GreenCramlingtonCrayford Cromwell Road Crystal Palace Darlington IDartford In Denton Didcot Dome RoundaboutDulwich Dunstable Durham East Filton East Grinstead East MayneEast Prescot Rd EastleighEdenthorpe Ellesmere Port Eltham ElyEmersons Green Exeter Fairfield Fallowfield Farlington Farnborough Fosse ParkFrome Glen Rd Gloucester QuayGodalmingCharlton Riverside Grimsby Hadleigh Road Halifax Hampden Hankeridge Farm Harlow Harrogate Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Hazel GroveHeaton Heaton ParkHedge End Hendon Hereford Heyford Hill High WycombeHoddesdon Horsham Huntingdon I.O.W KeighleyKempshottKempston Kenton KidderminsterKidlington Kiln Lane Kings Lynn Ladbroke Grove Larkfield Leamington Lee Green Leeds Moortown Leek Letchworth Lewes Rd Lincoln Liverpool (Woolton) Locksbottom London Colney Longwater LaneLoughborough Low Hall Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead MansfieldMarsh MillsMarshall Lake Meadowbank Melksham Mere Green MertonMilton Keynes Monks Cross MorecambeNantwich New Barnet New Cross GateNewbury Newbury ParkNewcastle U Lyme Newhaven Newport Newton Abbot Nine ElmsNorth Cheam Northfield NorthwichOldburyOsmaston Paignton Penzance Penrith PeterboroughPinhoe Road Pound Lane PrestonPurley WayQueens Rd Redbank Rd ReedswoodRice Lane Richmond Romford Rugby Rustington Sale SalfordScarborough Scunthorpe Sedlescombe RoadSevenoaks ShoreheadShrewsbury SloughSouth Ruislip Southend SouthportSpalding Springfield St AlbansStanmore Stanway Stirling Straiton Streatham Stroud SudburySunderland Sunderland NorthSury Basin Swadlincote SwanseaSydenhamTadleyTalbot HeathTaplow Team ValleyTelford Tewkesbury Road Thanet Westwoodcross ThetfordThornhill Torquay TruroTunbridge Wells Upper Norwood Upton Urmston Wakefield Walton Warlingham Warren Heath Watchmoor Park Water LaneWednesfield Weedon Road Welwyn Garden City West Green West Park Farm WhitechapelWhitehouse Farm Whitley Bay Whitstable Wigan Winchmore Hill Winnersh Winterstoke Road Witney
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