Broadway Store Location Closes March 19th
Posted by Shelley on 25th Feb 2016
We are closing our Broadway Store front in March when our lease expires. We are not going out of business!!
We are simply changing our game plan, and responding to the events around us. We tried to negotiate with our landlord, who wouldn't give us a real rent number, other than our rent was going to increase by at least 33% -- but our building manager wouldn't even discuss it. We gave our notice to leave in March and began searching for a new location. Unfortunately the commercial rent costs in Saskatoon are still ballooning even though there are many vacancies all over the city. We decided it made more sense for our business, our family, and our sanity to revert to being an ONLINE BUSINESS ONLY. We are really excited about this upcoming change. We will be saving a ton of money that was spent on overhead once we close the store, and because we won't have to deal with repackaging stock to hang on the walls, we will have more time to update the website, make new kits and designs, and concentrate on new product lines. We worked 6 days a week, and sometimes 7 for about three years until we decided to close on Mondays. This means we can go back to Monday - Fridays and we will have our weekends to spend with our family.
We thank our local customers that helped make our store and classes successful. We feel badly that we couldn't find a store front solution, as we know our store will leave a gap in local shopping options, but we hope our locals will make an account on our website!! Local shipping options will be very reasonable, as most orders can go letter mail and will take a day or two to be delivered. Our phone number will remain the same, and we will still attend many of the local shows we always have. SALES ARE ALREADY STARTING IN THE STORE! We are selling out all gift items from the front of the store - PURSES, PHOTOS, HATS, SOAP STONE KITS, Back Issues of Beading Magazines!!! We have even brought in some fantastic stone items... Mortar and Pestles, Salt Lamps, book ends, we are clearing out everything on sale! We have lots of Grid and hooks, as well as all our display cases for sale as well!Be sure to stop in soon!!