Different store concepts featuring a Weight Watchers fascia are currently being tested internally. The first shop could open this year if the right location is found.
Lindsay Reisser-Weston, vice-president of marketing, said the "fixed centres" would operate like a normal shop, open from nine to five, offer advice and host meetings. The stores will also sell Weight Watchers' products, expected to include food and drink lines from across its £330m retail brand, as well as branded weight-loss merchandise.
Weight Watchers has already started opening shops in the US. In Australia the brand is trialling stores within supermarkets.
In its bid to boost recruitment, Weight Watchers is also planning to hold "pop-up meetings" this year, hosted in venues such as supermarkets and shopping centres.
Reisser-Weston said: "We want to show people what we are really like – Weight Watchers isn’t just something your mum might do."
, which it described as the biggest change to the global business in 15 years.
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