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[@mediterraneandiet2483]

White males, white couples and white families are constantly excluded from advertisements despite being the vast majority of the population and representing the indigenous British people.

[@WhyWhyWhy-ms3we]

Well pointed out ! It’s as if everyone marries someone from another ethnic race . And it’s mostly a black dude with a blonde woman …. Such rubbish

[@allykatharvey]

Someone coined the word, “blackverts”!

[@WhyWhyWhy-ms3we]

@ well said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 so sick of those ads blatantly brainwashing people

[@Red-Robin48]

We've noticed that this has been happening for some time now. It started off with mostly mixed race family's which was ok. Then Boots did this outrageous deed , offending a huge % of their customers. Thats not ok. I like many others will not shop at Boots again. Also they have totally disrespected their hardworking staff many of whom Iam on friendly terms with at my local Boots. They are the pits!

[@HappyBunny-d2i]

I won’t buy any products that exclude the white person from their advertisements..

[@gothicwriter9897]

The Boots CEO and board are idiots. Woke and DEI is well past its sell by date outside of the M25. In most parts of the country it was never in. We, the great unwashed want good products at cheap prices. And at Christmas we want nostalgia and memories of Christmases past. We don't want politics rammed down our throats by some anti-British actress who upset 99% of Boots customers at the Coronation. The Boots board should all be sacked. Happy Christmas.

[@PearTreePictures1950]

go woke go broke

[@gailhorochuk1269]

Close the boots doors , go woke, go broke

[@erinobrien8793]

Perhaps after January they will be! It’s up to shareholders to mount an opposition!

[@railwaychristina3192]

@@gothicwriter9897 Bravo!

[@Silverfern2424]

@@gothicwriter9897 I’m almost embarrassed to be a female white ,heterosexual, pensioner at the moment. WTF is happening to this country?

[@Mr23million]

Boots have made the decision to not respect CHRISTmas. "Simply Boycott Boots"

[@sandyno1089]

Already been to Superdrug instead. 🥰

[@susanhopkison3363]

AMEN.🙏

[@jessieb7290]

Ohhhh superdrug, forgot that existed havent been to either in years 😂

[@fredneecher1746]

Christmas is for all of us. All we need is the warm Christmas message of peace and goodwill to everyone: trees, snow, turkey, decorations, happy children, all that good stuff. And of course the generosity and jolliness of Father Christmas.

[@cynthiawilliams5090]

I really hope Superdrug are getting prepared for the upsurge in sales this Christmas

[@pauper177]

I'm sure MR JOHN BOOT is turning in his grave at the utter stupidity of what they have done !!!!

[@johnwarner6345]

Jesse actually.

[@pauper177]

@@johnwarner6345 John Boot (October 1815 - 30 May 1860) was an English chemist and retail businessperson who was the sole founder of Boots the Chemists. Originally working in agriculture, he was forced by ill health to change careers and set up a shop to sell medicinal herbal remedies at Goose Gate, Nottingham.

[@pauper177]

@@johnwarner6345 John Boot (October 1815 - 30 May 1860) was an English chemist and retail businessperson who was the sole founder of Boots the Chemists. Originally working in agriculture, he was forced by ill health to change careers and set up a shop to sell medicinal herbal remedies at Goose Gate, Nottingham.

[@pauper177]

​@@johnwarner6345 Mr Google said it was John Boots ,the founder (October 1815 - 30 May 1860) ...

[@rodlaughton2318]

@@pauper177 Boot

[@grumpyoldsodinacellar3518]

Their advert made clear to me that they are more interested in serving the black, gay and trans community, that they have nothing for the rest of us. Fine, I'll shop elsewhere, and my prescriptions, along with that of my wife's, has now gone to a small local chemist that's within walking distance.

[@catherinesyme901]

Bravo supports all and local🙏💕🇳🇿

[@cynthiawilliams5090]

There’s definitely a trend to do as you’ve noticed by many of the big companies really hope their monitoring what’s happening with Boots people will boycott

[@sylvia4272]

They’re American now anyway, therefore woke. Taken over by Walgren, a sad day.

[@thump9er]

Och rubbish. Nowt wrong with it.

[@anthonymeredith7517]

superdrug is better lol thats me as well better prices too

[@spotononspot4187]

They can remove her from the advert! OR, take the advert off our screens! I will never shop at boots ever again! They are obviously going along with this bias woman! And her attack of the RF! So their ideas are out dated!

[@janiecelang2558]

Amen

[@rachelstrahan2486]

👍 Yes, usually not a good idea to offend a large percentage of your potential customers.

[@skemite]

I agree! The damage has been done

[@FUk811]

Absolutely.

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

AND publish an apology

[@pm6653]

She looks arrogant, not appealing, not a warm choice!. No matter what, Boots will suffer from their marketing blunder.

[@dinaworkman306]

She is arrogant

[@maureensheppard4551]

After her disrespectful comment about the Royal family, I can't help feeling the advert's hidden message is "Look who it is that gets the work done for the lazy white man". Yes she is arrogant. Her parting comment on the ad says it all.

[@judewebb5694]

Yes she is. Looks a hard woman. Indeed, poor staff though

[@sandyno1089]

Agreed, she looks nasty.

[@dexine4723]

That's what I thought. Even if I didn't know who she was, she sneers and smirks her way through the advert in a thoroughly obnoxious way.

[@jhutchings7627]

Inclusivity does not mean excluding the majority.

[@paulinej2834]

When I was growing up, it was Santa Clause, the elves & the reindeer & that was it. What's with the "Mrs Claus" anyway?

[@judewebb5694]

@@paulinej2834 Ditto. Mrs Claus always stayed home making his dinner, warming his socks etc according to the cartoons lol. I'm still a big kid and still love carttoons and the old life as it was

[@briansullivan5908]

It does in today’s society.

[@susankromer4430]

Seems it does in the Woke mindset!

[@jessieb7290]

I miss the old Bisto adverts. ❤

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

Woke can’t back down just like Starmer

[@vivienwade4378]

I absolutely loved how the Hungarian pm snubbed Starmer. It was priceless😂

[@jessieb7290]

😂

[@robertbrown1852]

But but but.. Starmer!!!!😂😂😂

[@Flametothecandle]

Im a white heterosexual male, Boots dont value my custom! Trust me i know that this is a fact!!

[@Luxie1305]

💯 %

[@gonnabeayogi1445]

I’m English female and it’s getting completely offensive how our men are portrayed, or not portrayed at all, in advertising. On the rare occasions a white bloke is on screen he is always the butt of the joke, looking weedy and pathetic. I’m freaking sick of it. Women are portrayed as intelligent, powerful etc etc … what is this telling our boys? I was so incensed that I sent an email to the AA (proper Karenesque) over their advert a while back. The ad showed the AA van being driven by a black female. I simply asked them if this was a true representation of their workforce and asked how many black female mechanics they employed. They couldn’t tell me of course 😂😂😂

[@judyswinden9935]

I think the way white heterosexual men like yoursrlf are portrayed in adverts is a disgrace. I'm an elderly white heterosexual female and they don't want me either.

[@mythoughts7755]

@@gonnabeayogi1445 Well said and well done emailing AA. Standing up for what you believe in is not "Karenesque" it is standing up for what you believe in. I have friends named Karen and I do not like the term if I'm honest. However, I am with you 100% being the mother of 2 boys and having a husband I too am tired of how men are being portrayed. It is OK to represent women as strong and intelligent, but why at the expense of men - can't they both be strong and intelligent? Why is it wrong to show men as strong, masculine people? I want my men to be strong and masculine if I'm honest that doesn't mean they are unfeeling or uncaring. My experience is that men are often much more sensitive and more easily hurt than many women, they just cover it up. Maybe, like you have done, we have to stand up for our sons, husbands, brothers, fathers etc because if they try to stand up for themselves they get vilified.

[@alimar0604]

​@@judyswinden9935TV ads now heavily biased towards the minority in this country. As a white middle class woman I don't fit in any more. As for the John Lewis ad, what's that all about? 😖🇬🇧

[@RS-ji2ui]

BLM Boots Loose Millions.

[@LynnWaggott]

Good one👍

[@stevedawson256]

They certainly will now 😂

[@Flametothecandle]

@RS-ji2ui The staff still have to do learning modules on BLM!!!!

[@rosemarykennedy5430]

She was a disastrous choice! An incredible blunder!

[@JMN-n2j3EBE777]

Not just her though, the whole advert is just racist - anti white, and woke. I couldn’t care less about people who are gay or trans, it doesn’t bother me, but it DOES bother me when they make out the ONE white man (Santa) as a lazy git, and why was it all so terribly black and no other men?

[@purplevonnie1]

Too late. Won't ever set foot in there again. Choose the wrong person for the ad.

[@ajune583]

Absolutely the wrong person! opinion from 🇨🇦

[@jamesoneill5070]

I hope you mean won't ever not won't never.

[@christinehoughton8591]

⁠@@jamesoneill5070 . We don’t need you to be rude and trying to be clever regarding grammar thank you very much.

[@jessieb7290]

@@jamesoneill5070sometimes my autocorrect drives me nuts. Last night i messaged my siblings and it kept changing the to fhe and “and” to ans. drives me insane. But theres no need to correct people, we all grow up spelling differently, have different accents etc so how we write will be different anyway.

[@purplevonnie1]

oops, corrected it 😉

[@amethystfeathers7324]

Maybe Boots did this on purpose? They're closing loads of branches, cutting staff, now they can say it's not their fault and blame the public.

[@roseann5126]

We have no boots where I live it closed down, just like M&S, wilkos and superdrug

[@northernshocksouthcoasteng7473]

Very good point. I think you are right. They seem to have been committing financial suicide for a while now - replacing staff with automated tills was the last straw for me. . Haven’t set foot in Boots since my local one took out all the manned tills.

[@bridiesmith5110]

The self service tills, take away staff from stocking shelf’s and the chancers are walking out of the store without paying.

[@jablot5054]

​@@roseann5126that's good, it gives the independent stores a chance.

[@cherryseptember8697]

Yes, I can see that. They are doing to their company what Starmer is trying to do to the country and when it all collapses. they will just blame the British people.

[@AlexDuggan68]

This was the perfect storm. an advert for Christmas in England, in which there are no straight white men and women; and you get someone who made a racist comment about the royal family to appear in it. No doubt Boots thought the publicity generated would be worth it. Unfortunately, most people have had enough and want them to go bankrupt.

[@anndenovan9026]

This advert is shown in the whole of the United Kingdom not just England.

[@LindaMcDonald-i7u]

Glad you said that. Sometimes the rest of the UK is ignored. We have enough problems without making the rest of us feel excluded. All nations of the UK and Ireland need to stand together please . ​@@anndenovan9026

[@davidcarroll5686]

Superdrug must be laughing their socks off

[@swaldron5558]

Massive profits after Xmas! 😅

[@pennysargent9557]

Cheap indirect publicity for superdrug

[@paulinej2834]

Well I'll certainly be going there in future. Why do we need a Mrs Claus anyway?

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Ah eh I wanted to say that first ​@@cliffhanger5059😄

[@ladychatelaine697]

Or their boots! 😂😂

[@moonbeep641]

From a very white balcony to very empty shops.

[@BertramG-oz4nu]

What a racist ming

[@vulcanvoyager]

"Terribly White!"

[@jessieb7290]

😂 From super judgy to pretending she’s Santa Claus….its almost like an ad for trans rights 🙄

[@14caz68]

Got that right …. 👍🏼 bye bye Boots

[@TinaHemphill]

Not very white, but terribly white.

[@Mithra-bl7nv]

Boots executives obviously lack the ability to read the room. And they are too arrogant to admit they made a mistake. I suspect their hoped for Christmas boom sales will fall short of expectations. This new tactic of theirs won't work. People are far too annoyed if not downright offended to fall for it and rightly so.

[@rachelstrahan2486]

👍 Reminds me of the hideous Christmas extravaganza the White House put on not too long ago. 😐

[@FUk811]

Nailed it.

[@briangreaves8236]

Spot on, they can spend as much as they want, the damage is done. Bad decision to hire a racist to be the star of your Christmas add. If a white person had said what she said, ie if the people on the balcony were any other race but white British, they would have been in court. 😅😅😅😅😅

[@monicaburdett236]

​@@rachelstrahan2486 I felt embarrassed for the American people when I saw that spectical.

[@Syntek-Alba]

They’d rather alienate people and let the backlash roll over than re-edit the ad and have the cast scream they’re racist and damage their esg score.

[@youasked8747]

Time to give BOOTS the boot

[@rachelstrahan2486]

🛼⛸️👢🥾🙂

[@centrevezgaming4862]

You need to do a new pun because that has been done to death .

[@laurieparker-stuart868]

Exactly!

[@vivienwade4378]

​@@centrevezgaming4862🙄🙄🙄

[@sawdusty8214]

Wow, apparently boots never run out of bows. They materialise by magic. I wonder if that trick will work with customers. Go woke go broke!

[@booker0110]

Christmas is a Christian festival about the birth of Christ and also celebrating the story of King Wenceslas now represented by Father Christmas. Why is our country so disrespected?

[@BggProductions]

*They* know that *they* don't have much time left so *they're* trying to do as much damage to us as *they* can.

[@apollonia6656]

The answer is not obvious to everyone: this was planned a long,long time ago and you have to look at who owns the media to get the answer 😉

[@Madd-e4n]

Go woke go broke

[@osirissgc]

Looks like Derek is trying to get more likes 😂

[@gordonhide4539]

Do you mean the one Above you ? 🤔 kath....Yorkshire England

[@centrevezgaming4862]

@@gordonhide4539the core shopping center in Leeds is getting replaced with more yuppy student luxury living and shops in the next couple of years.

[@christamulligan9816]

Go woke go broke is the motto for lots of shops

[@zukosmom3780]

Exactly

[@moviemaker159]

The advert is immoral and distasteful.

[@BerenikiRegina]

Immoral??? Why???

[@deb7834]

Bridgerton legend! Why is she a legend? What has she done that is legendary?

[@phoebegreig6523]

Legendary Racism towards England 😂

[@melkin3549]

She's legendary as a stiff as a board actress.

[@janettesinclair6279]

I only know this woman from that racist comment she made about the Royal Family.

[@Richard-fv7rq]

So true. Bridgerton was also an insult to British history.

[@MaureenMarshall-c5d]

Didn't watch it put me off looking at the cast

[@manofernando9918]

Closing the stable after the horse ran away ? Nah, too late.

[@maryoleary2037]

Boots is doing too little, too late. Their damage control is costing the company money. Boots needs to think things through next time.

[@shax3364]

What next time....😂

[@maryoleary2037]

@@shax3364 Well if they manage to keep a few stores open, there will be a next time.

[@ajune583]

Throwing more money down the drain! Hope their shares prices keep falling!

[@barbraluce5706]

Happy 357K to you, Mr Sean. I always go to the Boots at Piaccadilly Circus when in London but now....really stupid decisions.

[@marian-j8x]

The Managing Director of Boots should ensure this advert is taken down and then he should make a public apology. I am sure I heard somewhere that he is leaving Boots in the New Year.

[@user-yl1xy5eg7b]

Boots are finished, as far as I am concerned.

[@julianamcnaught1852]

So their ok spending more money on crap racist adverts and more pr but are closing 300 stores and making hundreds of people unemployed. I don’t spend my money in business like that.

[@suziejames7510]

I went into Boots yesterday to spend my advantage points and now I'll be cutting up my card as I have no intention of shopping there again. As a company that is so into inclusivity, where are all the older people in your ad. Not so inclusive are you !

[@thisandthat1265]

Superdrug don't need to do a Xmas advert thanks to Boots.

[@Gregm-l9r]

Boots has made such a spectacle of itself with that advertisement. Big wave 👋

[@angelawalker8615]

Boots management and advertising company have made a big mistake, they even made santa a white lazy man....

[@BertramG-oz4nu]

It's a wonder father Xmas wasn't black

[@suebryanwilliams8611]

That actually would have been more balanced. Making him white and a fat lazy slob while a black Mrs Claus and all her mixed race, LGBT workers etc. did the work, was extremely biased... blatant racism, stereotyping and discrimination. Imagine if Santa had been black and lazily doing nothing, while a white Mrs Claus and her white workers did all the work, what an uproar there would have been then.

[@soniaharrison1687]

Couldn't of put it better myself well said!!!

[@Elaine-od3hb]

@@BertramG-oz4nuoh no they had to make the fat lazy man white

[@kimbarnes8284]

I know me too but they had a better idea to make a white Father Christmas look lazy and dishevelled. ​@@BertramG-oz4nu

[@CarolStJohn-ev9ry]

Mrs Claus isn't supposed to look scary!

[@mosheridan7016]

So Mrs Claus does all the work?

[@marian-j8x]

Mrs Clause is supposed to be small and portly, wearing a apron and baking mince pies and gingerbread men.

[@mosheridan7016]

@marian-j8x A divisive add on so many levels.

[@kathleensaich6480]

She's also not very attractive. My opinion only of course

[@cplcabs]

or that colour.

[@animalian01]

Its not just the person they have in the main part, its the whole concept of the advert

[@dexine4723]

Boring, unoriginal and with a demographic that represents a tiny minority of potential customers?

[@RinneShark]

Is anyone else absolutely fed up of seeing trans individuals over represented in newspapers, magazines and digital media?

[@suebryanwilliams8611]

Yes the white male "Santa" who does nothing while all the black and LGBT women do all the work was out of order!

[@karyne826]

@@animalian01Looked like a trans /LBQ fest.

[@shaunperry1796]

Oh dear have Boots employed Meghan as a business advisor

[@apollonia6656]

Wouldn't put it past Boots to choose another racist !

[@wendyevans3272]

Does Boots think we are plebs who just accept what ever they throw at us? They are aiming for the young people but they don’t shop in Boots. It’s us oldies that use Boots - or did …

[@kathleensaich6480]

So true

[@Richard-fv7rq]

So someone at BOOTS thought this was OK to sign off, spend a tonne of cash, on an advert that is insulting and a dig at the nation. Surely there will be a knock on the door for that joker?

[@Maria-p1b2u]

Boycott Boots. Superdrug’s department stores, The Perfume shop, etc I’ll be using any store other than Boots from now on.These companies can’t keep insulting the very people who keep them in business.

[@apollonia6656]

The Perfume shop got my list : Not giving my list of 14 perfumes to racist Boots.

[@Maria-p1b2u]

@@apollonia6656 absolutely.

[@markgadsby5568]

Local pharmacies aren’t bad value

[@Jackie-ji2sj]

JUST LOOKING AT HER PUTS YOU OFF CHRISTMAS, LET ALONE THE RACIST ADVERT ITSELF.

[@JenniBurrow]

Oh dear this woke business is completely out of hand. So sad.❤❤

[@melkin3549]

Who on earth thought that advert was a good idea? Some woke, numpty advertising executive who wanted to tick boxes rather than appeal to the public.

[@philiphumphrey1548]

That was the story with Bud Lite (she has now been fired but the damage has been done).

[@CampervanTales]

Boots are now selling my hubby's favourite aftershave a heck of a lot cheaper than anywhere else. £15 cheaper in fact. Trouble for them is I would, and am, going to go elsewhere and pay the extra for it. After employing that woman to promote their Christmas campaign they won't see my custom again.

[@trustnuffin9121]

I will never shop Boots again

[@scrappystocks]

I was using Boots everyday. Today I went elsewhere. It's nothing to do with someone portrayed as a black Mrs Claus but everything to do with who is portraying this character and the message that Boots seem to be sending to me "You're not welcome if you're white". Fair enough I will go where I feel welcomed. Am I alone in my thinking Boots? I don't think so - that's why you should be worried that your share price has collapsed.

[@elainewilliams735]

Boots will mark the prices up,then discount the items.

[@marian-j8x]

They can do what they like, I will never shop in Boots again.

[@MarkWhylie]

I won't know or care because I will not enter any of their stores.

[@paulharrison8475]

In town yesterday Superdrug was doing great business compared to boots.

[@cplcabs]

Good to hear

[@judewebb5694]

This woman looks the most unfriendly and probably scary to children when you think of the cuddly depiction of Mrs Clause years ago who waited home for Santa after his rounds! Positively chilling. They spoil the image of Father Christmas for children too because she makes out he's lazy and she and the elves have done everything while he's always asleep! Disappointing Boots. Maybe not too late but not the right angle. What a mess, hope the staff don't lose their jobs because of this ridiculousness!

[@annegordon6725]

She looks arrogant.

[@charlie240470]

They must think we all have goldfish memories, damage already done.

[@SusanBell-dl5gr]

Booted Boots off my places to go, they supplied my Specs, now possibly going to specsavers, that just happen to be a few shops over, so not so far for my Boots to go walking, some very lovely pictures you choose.

[@willie2761]

Specsavers are great ! Give Boots the boot

[@gordonhide4539]

Yes..I go to specsavers ..give them a try 👍 Kath....Yorkshire England

[@sirenasea]

I got my best specs this year from Specsavers, lovely service 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@sueharvey4747]

Specsavers are great and have some good deals on their glasses!

[@sueharvey4747]

When the ad comes on there is just time to make a coffee!

[@normansmith2977]

Told my wife and family not to shop at Boots until this ad is off tv. I’d rather spend our money elsewhere....🤬

[@markgadsby5568]

Make them pay - don’t go back ever. Other companies need to be sent a message

[@DimWit000]

It’s beginning to look a lot like a woke Christmas,everywhere we go!

[@rachelstrahan2486]

🌲

[@centrevezgaming4862]

Jack black is playing Satan instead of Santa in the latest Christmas movie and time for the rock to retire from acting and go back to fake wrestling .

[@mosheridan7016]

​@@centrevezgaming4862The endgame is to try and completely erase Christmas

[@apollonia6656]

The irony is that real Christians won't lose their belief because of a racist advert, to the contrary it helps because others are waking up to the truth.

[@mameschwarzfischer2806]

Sometimes you can't repair a mistake. Meegan and Hasben proves that, no way back

[@markgadsby5568]

You mean Me-gain

[@karyne826]

@@mameschwarzfischer2806 Spot On.

[@Ceba-pw8hk]

So their plan is to spend good money after bad. Try dumping the ad, its cheaper.

[@cidk59]

If it wasn't so frustrating (the constant beating of the woke drum) this whole campaign would be hilarious. Who in the world would think it a good idea to piss off the majority of your customer base during the height of the buying season, by putting out an extremely expensive and offensive ad, and then battle the pushback with even more money and discounts???!!!! What rocket scientist came up with that one????

[@KevinDoyle-r1w]

They messed with our Christmas and now they pay the price. No sympathy at all except for the shop floor workers that would probably have advised against it in the first place. RIP Boots

[@jannytee6774]

I’ve given Boots the Boot nd I’m not going back ! They’re not buying me!😅 Go woke, go broke! Bye Boots

[@KimCarter-ng5de]

No problem boycotting Boots especially as it is no longer a British owned company.

[@JimCox-mi2qi]

My Boots are made for walking, AWAY !!!!

[@terriejones1918]

❤🎉😂

[@paulgollum1]

Forgetting the furore over the comments this woman made about the Royal family, I'm staggered Boots chose someone who looks as hard as nails on screen, and who emanates zero warmth or charm. Very unchristmassy.

[@davidhampshire7723]

I agree. She’s charmless, as is the advert.

[@pauldurkee4764]

That sound isn't boots, it's the sound of the white pound leaving the store.

[@AlisonDavies-vj9un]

Bankruptcy is a way out , CEOs won't care about staff , the little people , not only is that actress isn't only an irresponsible race baiter but responsible for the down fall of boots and employees what a legacy she'll leave behind. Absolutely astonishing.

[@ibme6073]

The good thing about Boots was their loyalty program. I’ll cash in my points and buy the rest of the Xmas gifts in our lovely department store. End of my loyalty, bye bye Boots

[@kathleenmatthews6145]

I shall go in boots this week and spend my loyalty card points and that will be it, no more spent in boots.

[@Nana-vi4rd]

As far back as I can remember and believe that is far back. Mrs. Santa Claus has ALWAYS been depicted as a sweet, little old Grandmother. Just as Santa is always depicted as a jolly old elf. Now if that company had gone with a grandmother type black actress. There probably would not have been any problems. But using that actress who offended so many people AROUND THE WORLD with her comment about the Royal Family on the balcony after the Coronation. That was a slap in the face to the people of the UK. Just like Khan not allowing any signs saying "Merry Christmas". Insulting, and truly rude.

[@amethystfeathers7324]

Khan cannot stop people putting Merry Christmas signs etc in their windows. CHRISTmas.

[@Dee-JayW]

Huh? No one has banned anything about Christmas 😂😂😂😂😂 still rolls around every year!

[@amethystfeathers7324]

@@Dee-JayW When kids in schools are told they can't have Nativity plays, when people are told not to use the word Christmas in case it offends someone there's a problem. The UK is British and Christian. Christmas is about Christ. We'll not be told how to go about it by immigrants and non indigenous people.

[@elainewilliams735]

I went to my local shopping center Saturday afternoon, i walked past the large boots and it was empty of customers.😂😂😂

[@mostynthebrave6963]

Wolverhampton Boots the same

[@lyndaa7560]

The Boots executives think the shopping public are too stupid to have their own opinions, that we’re so pathetic & greedy that all will be forgiven for a discount, everything online or in the shops could be on sale for a penny & I still wouldn’t buy the rubbish.

[@DimWit000]

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,just like the ones Boots used to show.

[@rachelstrahan2486]

👍😀🎁

[@matildamartin2811]

I’m dreaming of a “terribly “white Christmas.

[@lindamerrett6600]

100% It’s the woman they chose.

[@TinaHemphill]

And the trans women, almost no white people and the fact that they didn’t display a single product. The advert was all about her.

[@markgadsby5568]

@@TinaHemphilland it was dissing men by showing Santa as lazy

[@cindyrussell7017]

Some folks are tire of this kind of stuff and will not support the company or person what they are selling and how little it cost.😊

[@greebo6549]

When a company employs someone who apparently despises British culture coupled with a message that actively alienates the vast majority of its customers … what did they expect

[@robertguildford]

Having been in the advertising business, I can assure you that the creative side of the advertising business, never consider how many people that the might alienate as a result of their advertising.

[@philiphumphrey1548]

Then they are clearly incompetent and not fit for purpose.

[@marian-j8x]

It should be the first thing the creative side of the advertising business considered. The whole idea of advertising is to get people to buy the product being advertised, not to alienate the prospective customer.

[@Pauline-b1u]

Where have all business personnel gone....no one has a business brain today.

[@robertballuumm730]

Well personally I am absolutely fed up with this whole DEI crap. I will never give Boots my custom ever again. To pick someone to do their Christmas advert who has made a point of being blatantly anti white is a total insult to many, many people. 🤔🥺🇬🇧

[@Monicablackbelt24]

Everyone I know is boycotting Boots .. if they can’t represent us why should they get our money! I’m using Superdrug always in future .. too little too late from Boots im afraid!

[@paulinetipper1351]

Superdrug is always a helpful alternative, and is uncontroversial!!

[@pamelacrowell2007]

Let em go, let em go, let em go ..... Broke!!!!!😂😂😂

[@andrewallen9993]

Get woke, go broke. Simples.

[@annecunningham1151]

My local town switched the Christmas lights on yesterday. The town was heaving. I walked past Boots, didn’t go in, and it looked very quiet. Go woke, go broke. #BoycottBoots

[@margaretlarking665]

I will boycott Boot's this Christmas.

[@karenhill3161]

Even if I got the things free, I still wouldn't shop here

[@marionpearson8757]

They should check M&S advert. Funny with a beautiful actress. It makes you feel warm and christmassy

[@MazSwanboroughSmith]

They’ve made an almighty mess of things! They are appalling people who think they’re so big and clever when the reality is that they’re know-nothings. No business is there for the customers, they’re all about the money. Boots are going to find there’s not much coming in. Serves them right.

[@jenniferbrighty5120]

And as the saying goes. The Customer is ALWAYS RIGHT We've been proved that massively!!!!

[@LindaWilliams-s4c]

A warning to Advertisers do not go woke, or you will go broke!!! Boots are taking a backlash now because of that stupid unreal advert. And I’m glad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Silverfern2424]

Boots was always my go to store for gifts. Not any more. Royal bashing had to stop. People have had enough. Nothing less than a public apology will get me back into that store

[@BarbaraHardacre]

Nah not even an apology will get majority of people back in. Damage is done.

[@anndenovan9026]

There is royal bashing all over the internet now and it is getting tiresome most of it is downright lies.

[@BarbaraHardacre]

@@Silverfern2424 not even an apology will get me back in boots

[@antoma6844]

This is about racial divisions,Now Boots will feel finacial division.

[@georgeburton6399]

Just won't spend our hard earned money in boots ,who obviously don't care about the controversial person they have used to plug their Christmas add,they didn't take into account our patriotic love we have for our royal family. Wrong move boots advertising executives, Superdrug and any other independent shops here we come .

[@Matahari-M]

Dear Boots: Get Woke, Go Broke.....take it to the bank! Best Wishes from Your American Cousins. ❤ 🇺🇸

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

So, as I understand this, Boots are paying more out in glossy newspaper adverts, and offering discounts on items, in an attempt to bring back into their stores people who wouldn't have boycotted them in the first place if they hadn't been offended by the central figure in the Ad. Have I got that correct? Who is their economic advisor? Rachel Reeves?

[@janjeffrey5679]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@margaretblack8538]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@traceymcgowan8323]

Now that woman knows how the British people think of her and Boot's for dissing there Royal family

[@alicesings1971]

Happy Monday Neil ! Have a great day and stay warm Chum ! Sincerely

[@4960-j4p]

I think this once great country has become a shadow of what it was once .

[@joanbonnet8229]

We have Walgreens instead of Boots. Will shop elsewhere.

[@rachelstrahan2486]

👍Someone with leathery, old looking skin, and a scowl on their face, with a better-than-you look straight into the camera is not going to sell very much in a store that sells beauty products anyway. There's no beauty there to inspire the customer. It reminds me of when I was the counter manager for Christian Dior cosmetics; on the other side of the counter was Clarins and for some reason they had a 90 year old woman working for them. 🙄 Anything in the beauty business has to show what people 'want to look like' not what they actually look like to sell a product. Not trying to be mean, it is reality. Even if they didn't have all the other stuff going on, that was a bad choice of person. If they really wanted to do something 'Bridgerton' like, they should have done something similar to the time period the show is set in. Not giving unpaid marketing advice.🙂 Not an expert, but, I have been a consumer for quite some time. I could think of several simple ways to remind people to shop at a store like that, as I'm sure others could too. 👋

[@fionalawrence1611]

Adjoa was making an OBSERVATION- that's all.

[@rosieposie6521]

​@@fionalawrence1611 WELL. THE IGNORANT RACIST WOMAN, SHOULDN'T HAVE, SHOULD SHE. SHE'S FINISHED NOW FOR GOOD.

[@rachelstrahan2486]

@@fionalawrence1611 👍 A racist OBSERVATION.

[@amandairedale706]

I see Boots going into administration next year onwards.

[@user-zt1er1uj6i]

Purchase tonight from superdrug, BOOTS missed £110 of my cash.

[@rivermoon6190]

And just like buud lite they double down, so just like bud lite we need to ensure they never get their standing back. (Deliberate spelling). Remember - A boycott is not just for Christmas!.

[@retiredcajunlady8835]

Oh, I get it!! Boots is using the same business model that Disney is using with the disastrous remake of "Snow White" Throwing good money after bad never works!

[@Sophia1000]

You mean that Off white and the seven pronouns movie. Disney has gone terribly woke and I've boycotted them.

[@carolaspinall1562]

I told my friend to Boycott Boots and why, she had not seen the Christmas vid. she totally agreed.

[@railwaychristina3192]

Just like Labour..spend your way out of troubles.

[@andyhughes5885]

Boot`s will care if the sound of kerching kerching kerching falls silent. If, they can live without us we can live without them and by the way Sean, you can buy the same products in other high street shops cheaper.

[@cynthiastogden7000]

Too late,far far too late. Damage done irretrievably.

[@paulineashcroft1485]

Hi ho, hi ho it's out of Boot's we go.

[@Sophia1000]

Lal that was a good one🤣🤣🤣

[@RichardMaguire110]

After that insult I am staying out of Boots. A sincere apology would help.