26/04/2024
I just want to share this post as us business need to stick together and coz Imagine Toy Shop - Holmfirth are my lovely next door neighbours! Us business are all in the same boat it's a tough world we are living in and what scares me is am a single parent so my business isn't just my lively hood also need to provide for my daughter. I want to say a massive thank you to all my regular customers as if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be able to run my business!! 🐶🐾
Please read 😔.
I thought I should express our recent life here…
We were closed yesterday. Last week closed Wednesday too. I can’t even afford my students anymore so I can have a day off (to work more at home and to repair my mental health, not sit and glow…)
It’s been the worst 2 months IN OVER 20 YEARS.
We thought last year was particularly bad as every news was depressing, from rising interest rates, mortgages, rents, war….everything.
We cried but kept pushing,most months I worked 20 days in a row affecting my mental and physical health just to keep the shop going. We had to reduce hours from 10-5 every day to 10-3 as afternoons were DEAD and I had to pay my staff….
We hoped this year, it’ll be all more NORMAL. And it looks like it’s all less-unexpected and stable. LOOKS.
Yet people somehow think that aside shops, we secretly run banks and sit on millions so we don’t have to see you.
Surprise! We never struggled more. We need CUSTOMERS to be able to order more toys. We need customers to be able to open at 10 every day.
I’ve just paid due bills. That’s it. I had to cancel Tonies order. I had to postpone funsnaps and jokes coming.
It’ll come when we can afford it…..
Please buy local. Or if you don’t care, wave bye bye and see another bar opening…..
