UK peeps, what happened to the bodyshop ?

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

im aging myself here but when i was just in my first job straight from school we loved the bodyshop

i havnt lived anywhere near a town with a body shop for many years so i dont know whats been happening
but that is one hell of a debt
and when did it become so uncool
the actual soaps were beautiful as where the bodywashes -always expensive for what it was

but i used to love the grapefruit soap
and the manderine
and the strawberry body wash with the walnut shell
but i think we all grew out of the dewberry purfume
you could never recycle the containers in store in NZ, so that was always a bit of a bummer

 

[dk168]

Can't remember exactly what happened as I don't shop there.

However, I vaguely remember they went into administration and closed a number of their high street shops if not all.

It might have resurrected and became an online retailer only.

DK

 

[pearlsngems]

The store at our mall closed a couple of years ago.

 

[lucida818]

I am based in Singapore & there are still many here, mainly in malls.

 

[AllAboardTheBlingTrain]

I think they are still around as an online retailer at least, because I still get my body wash and body lotion from them!

 

[kenny]

Bodyshop?
I thought that those did work on cars, for example replacing and painting a fender after a car accident.

 

[MJ_Mac]

I’m in Canada and was in The Body Shop last week. They are currently restructuring from what I have heard. They are quite short on product at the moment. Whether they survive is anyone’s guess.

This is an article I found from December, 2024.

The Body Shop Canada to be sold to Serruya Private Equity

The Body Shop Canada is due to be sold to a company led by the co-founder of frozen yogurt chain Yogen Früz.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

 

[HGar]

Still in most shopping centres in Australia. I watched a doco on the original owners last year - it was a slightly scathing review of their tactics in the beginning.

 

[Tartansparkles]

I haven't seen a Body Shop on the UK high street for ages, I think they may no longer be around. Anita Roderick sold the business to L'Oréal and that upset quite a few people because they felt that L'Oréal's ethos didn't quite fit with that of the Body Shop.

But they were also a bit slow to react to competition. At the lower end of the market they were undercut by the high street drug stores (like Boots, Superdrug) and then Lush came along and just offered a nicer product at a price point that was similar (sometimes slightly more expensive). The equivalent today in the UK would probably be Lush.

 

[Ally T]

We still have a high street store here in the North West of England - it has been here since I was a teen & I’m 50 now. And it still smells delicious!

 

[Lookinagain]

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