The pharmacy in Tesco has been run by Marion Hendrick for some 32 years since she opened on the 2nd of July 1993 as a stand-alone store in the Crazy Prices Shopping Centre and moved to Tesco in 2011.
She passed the business to her daughter Hazel in 2024 before filling her final orders in December of last year. Hazel has worked in the pharmacy as a pharmacist for eight years and throughout her teenage years as a counter assistant. It has been part of her life since she was a child, stocking the shelves at 10 years of age prior to the first day her mother opened.
The Hendricks are an independent, family-run business, not part of a chain.
Looking back on what it was like being in business locally, Marion states, “It took a while to get established; it was great once I did. Country people are, in my experience, lovely to deal with and very good at taking advice and appreciating it. My customers have remained loyal even when I moved from one part of the town to the other; they stayed loyally with me.”
“I would like to acknowledge my loyal customers who have been with me from the beginning and their families who have stayed loyal to us through the generations,” she affirms.
