One day people will learn private equity firms owning businesses isn’t a good idea. Buy, run into the ground, sell what they can. Maximise profits with no long term commitments.
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I think it will be a good thing. My local Lloyds is being bought and taken over by a smaller chain of local pharmacies. All staff have been retained/no redundancies and it’s highly likely that the pharmacy services will improve when the new owner puts their name over the door. Although Lloyds is “CLOSING ALL BRANCHES!!”, most of the pharmacies will remain (none have closed so far) under new ownership, with the same staff and better supply chain options.
Lloyd’s is an awful business, the McColls of chemists.
Our local one seems incapable of serving more than one customer every half hour.
There’s a Lloyds in my GP and I’ll still take my prescriptions to a big Boots or Asda as theres a chance of it being fulfilled that day. They’ve become utterly useless and under staffed.
I’ve only ever used Lloyds once and they refused to sell me Rennie indigestion tablets because I was obviously pregnant. Total lack of insight into what was safe for me. I went around the corner and got them in One Stop instead.
How can you fail at selling drugs to sick people in this country?
I thought they were pulling out of the sainsburys ones to reduce costs why would they need to do this now as well.
I know a pharmacy that is advertising a pharmacist job for 75k and this is in Sheffield. I had no idea that job paid so well! Obviously a lot of responsibility but bloody hell!
If the state of the Lloyd’s at the end of my street is any indication of how the larger chain runs, they brought it on themselves.
I used to work in a job where we paid Lloyds for the drugs they dispense. It doesnt surprise me there struggling. They never cared if they got paid correctly or not
Prescriptions went missing and they didnt care
>Lloyds Pharmacy was sold to **private equity firm** Aurelius less than a year ago in a deal worth £477million.
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One day people will learn private equity firms owning businesses isn’t a good idea. Buy, run into the ground, sell what they can. Maximise profits with no long term commitments.
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I think it will be a good thing. My local Lloyds is being bought and taken over by a smaller chain of local pharmacies. All staff have been retained/no redundancies and it’s highly likely that the pharmacy services will improve when the new owner puts their name over the door. Although Lloyds is “CLOSING ALL BRANCHES!!”, most of the pharmacies will remain (none have closed so far) under new ownership, with the same staff and better supply chain options.
Lloyd’s is an awful business, the McColls of chemists.
Our local one seems incapable of serving more than one customer every half hour.
There’s a Lloyds in my GP and I’ll still take my prescriptions to a big Boots or Asda as theres a chance of it being fulfilled that day. They’ve become utterly useless and under staffed.
I’ve only ever used Lloyds once and they refused to sell me Rennie indigestion tablets because I was obviously pregnant. Total lack of insight into what was safe for me. I went around the corner and got them in One Stop instead.
How can you fail at selling drugs to sick people in this country?
I thought they were pulling out of the sainsburys ones to reduce costs why would they need to do this now as well.
I know a pharmacy that is advertising a pharmacist job for 75k and this is in Sheffield. I had no idea that job paid so well! Obviously a lot of responsibility but bloody hell!
If the state of the Lloyd’s at the end of my street is any indication of how the larger chain runs, they brought it on themselves.
I used to work in a job where we paid Lloyds for the drugs they dispense. It doesnt surprise me there struggling. They never cared if they got paid correctly or not
Prescriptions went missing and they didnt care
>Lloyds Pharmacy was sold to **private equity firm** Aurelius less than a year ago in a deal worth £477million.
Sounds like Ye Olde Assert-Stripping Manoeuvre.