High Street giant Boots is leaving Kingussie
Kingussie is to lose its Boots – but not its chemist.
The Strathy understands that the giant pharmacy group is rationalising – its policy of ‘not doubling up in one area’ has been more or less common knowledge since the summer.
Aviemore has its own Boots in the Myrtlefield Shopping Centre.
It is understood there will be no redundancies at the High Street store.
The Kingussie leasehold has been taken up by an independent pharmacy, so the outlet will revert to its earlier incarnation.
The owners of the building, who decades ago ran a highly successful chemist of their own, are said to have released the shop to another independent and the news is being well received locally.
Fellow retailer Lydie Bocquillon, who runs the Cheese Neuk next door, said: “It’s right that the High Street should have independent traders and whoever they are we wish the new tenants every success.”
