Calls to keep pharmacy in Sainsbury’s Gloucester Quays 

A Liberal Democrat city councillor has voiced disappointment over the planned closure of the Lloyds pharmacy at the Sainsbury’s Gloucester Quays store. 

Posters have been put up over the dispensary at the supermarket advising shoppers that the pharmacy will be closing on July 24. 

Councillor Rebecca Trimnell, who represents Westgate, said: “Considering how much residential development has and continues to be built around the Quays and Hempsted, I am surprised that after July there will no longer be a pharmacy inside the Sainsbury’s at Gloucester Quays. 

“Not everyone wants to have their medication delivered and for some people who have health conditions, but continue to have reasonable mobility a trip to their nearest pharmacy, which is also within the walls of where they can also undertake their food shopping too, is productive time well spent out of the confines of one’s home. 

“It feels that we are seeing yet another cost-cutting measure, which has overridden any considerations into the impact of closing this pharmacy on near-by residents.

“For the sake of everyone, I strongly appeal to Sainsbury’s to negotiate for another pharmacy to replace the Lloyds one that is closing.”

Just seven years after buying the in-store services for £125 million, Lloyds Pharmacy revealed in January it was closing all 237 of its pharmacy sites located in Sainsbury’s supermarkets in response to “changing market conditions.”

How the left space will be used is believed to differ from store to store and what will happen to the space at the Sainsbury’s Gloucester Quays has yet to be confirmed.