Lush is a fantastic place to go shopping for the women in your life. Birthdays, Christmas, it makes…read moregift buying so much easier. Just head in either fill a bag with suitable looking soaps, bath bombs and other idea items or if you want the really simple solution just look for the ready wrapped gift section where they have found things that smell good together to save you doing it. The best thing about it is that the products are all made by hand and with natural ingredients and the packaging is limited meaning that is more environmentally sound. The only trouble I find is that the smells are so strong that my nose can't stand it for too long so I have to dash in and out quickly! The Chester branch is comparatively small but seems to have quite a good range of items. In the run up to Christmas they seem to have offers on so there are probably bargains to be had, especially if you have several people to buy for.

I'm not the biggest fan of Lush shops, as i generally like to be able to breathe while…read moreshoppingsomething i struggle with in any Lush shops, but this one is better than most. It has a fairly open front, and so there is at least a little more oxygen going round! You can smell the place from some distance away, so at least you dont get lost looking for it! The produce is fairly cheap considering the quality, but the overpowering scents still make me a bit of a non-fan. Its one thing smelling nice, its another killing people!

Boots on Foregate Street is a large store, it is the larger of the branches Boots have in Chester…read moreand the product range is pretty good, they seemed to sell most items one would expect to find in a Boots store, although like Chester as a whole, the building/store wasn't new/modern compared to other stores, it certainly did the trick with a good product selection. There were some inconsistencies with the pricing, they seemed to have the old price labels on certain products, even for items which have been on sale for several weeks now, strangely this included Baylis and Harding hand washes which were priced at 50% higher than the actual price, but even just two or three meters away they had the correct labels (Surely they should have put the whole products from one range exactly together?) 4* - I would feel happy shopping here, although I prefer my local branch in Manchester, this branch isn't a bad alternative and is a great store in Chester town centre.

Big and not that well manned store. They are located on foregate street in Chester's city centre…read more I use the store most days I'm in town to get my lunch. They have very unreliable self service tills and I have never seen anybody actually manning the main tills. Items that are reduced just don't scan and you need to find a staff member to sort it out which can be a real challenge. This boots doesn't do well in the morning or if it is busy. They don't seem to be able to get their staffing right. There is never enough staff to help customers at point of purchase and it really shows. Stock levels seem to be low most of the time and it means the full range is never available. They have a pharmacy and a variety of cosmetics counters in store.

a wide range of perfumes at fantastic prices, staff are very friendly and helpful, some of the…read moreoffers thay have on here at times are just fantastic. I always go here when i need to buy perfume. Even the gift sets are fantastic prices aswell