The group has not revealed which locations will be impacted or when they will shut, but it stated that the affected pharmacies will continue to operate as normal until their closure.
A spokesperson for Tesco said: “Following a comprehensive review, last month we took the difficult decision to close a small number of our pharmacies later this year, in line with customer demand.
“We remain committed to providing our customers with the very best pharmacy services and continue to have a network of over 350 pharmacies across the country open and ready to help.”
The move comes two years after the supermarket chain announced that it was closing eight of its in-store pharmacies. The locations were all 100-hour pharmacies, and Tesco said at the time that its decision was because “the branches were not seeing sufficient customer demand to sustain their long opening hours”.
At the end of last year, Tesco started partnering with leading healthcare providers to create a new concept that offers shoppers access to more health services in its supermarkets.
In recent years, the wider pharmacy sector has been hit hard by funding cuts, with 222 pharmacies in England closing their doors in 2024 – the second-highest annual closure rate on record.
NamNews Implications:
- For ‘in line with customer demand’…
- …read insufficient sales plus funding cuts.
- Leading to insufficient profitability.
- Resulting in Tesco following national trends in pharmacy outlet closures.
- Until supply meets profitable demand…
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