Bosses would have resisted the idea stores were clinically white

N your piece discussing the new pharmacy opened on East Street, Bedminster, I was interested to read local architect Paul Cannon describe Boots’ stores as “all just white, cleaned, almost kind of clinical and acerbic”.

- Jack Moss PhD student in Modern History

He also claimed European pharmacy stores were much more open and typically more welcoming than those within the UK. While this may be his current impression of Boots stores, they were not always like this, particularly in Bristol.

The Boots store currently situated in Broadmead opened in September 1959 and was the first within Boots’ portfolio to be designed to accommodate the modernised retailing techniques of customer-based self-selection from open shelving.