Displays and talks will highlight changes in retail and shopping since the first store opened in 1849.
The 175th anniversary of Boots the Chemist is being marked with an exhibition about its impact on everyday life.
The exhibition examines, they added, changing customer needs, cultural aspirations, and patterns of everyday life, and the corresponding evolution of technologies, display techniques, approaches to advertising, and architectural designs that have shaped modern shopping. Also on display is a pharmacist's workbench, which shows how they would work before mass production, making up individual medicines according to each customer's needs.One particularly pervasive area is advertising, with examples from World War One - featuring characters 'Reggie Sam' and 'Betty' - and the 'Mummy says….' campaign from the 1940s.
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