Growth
Boots against its category
The biggest tracked UK pharmacy chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Boots's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
B
|
-2.7% |
| 2 |
S
|
+1.5% |
| 3 |
T
|
+3.6% |
| 4 |
W
|
- |
| 5 | A Apple Pharmacy | - |
| 6 |
M
|
- |
| 7 |
A
|
-5.5% |
| 8 | P Pharmacy | - |
| 9 |
G
|
-6.8% |
| 10 |
D
|
+7.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
1,889 tracked Boots locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.
Tracked stores by region
- London 244
- South East 240
- Scotland 230
- South West 184
- North West 173
- East of England 170
- Yorkshire and The Humber 145
- West Midlands 132
- East Midlands 123
- Wales 91
- North East 83
- Northern Ireland 67
- Other 7
Customer overlap
Who shops at Boots
Tracked chains Boots customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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