A finance dispute with landlord Westfield has locked a Terry White Chemist franchise owner out of their Victoria based store.

For more than three weeks the Yarra St. Terry White Chemist has been locked down  admist an attempt to settle a finacial dispute between the Westfield Shopping Center, the appointed  administrator, Terry White Chemist and the franchisee.

In a situation that has been described as “awkward” by Terry White Chemist franchise development manager, Chris Swifte, the store was closed Melbourne Cup Dayfor ‘some amount owing’.

Chris added that there had been a lot of discussion over the previous months that would have prevented this from happening.

Terry White Chemist was the sole stockist of the Tony Ferguson weight loss program after TF closed their Malop Street clinic prior to the opening of the Terry White Chemist. This has caused some  fustration that has been voiced on TonyFerguson.com.au.

Tony Ferguson sales and operation manager Bernard Steele said that they were working with Terry White Chemists to try and resolve this.