The axe has officially fallen on Gartmore’s community-run shop after shareholders confirmed a decision to close after 24 years.
The future of the shop had looked bleak when a meeting was called on July 14 describing the shop as “no longer viable”, owing to pressures from online shopping and running costs.
A decision by Loch Lomond and the National Park planners to reject plans for a small ‘eco house’ in the garden of the shop - designed as a means of securing the shop’s future - has also been blamed as a key factor in the closure.
