Friday, September 26, 2008
Changes
I started a different blog message yesterday and then deleted it. We have had to make a few changes at the store and I hope everyone understands.
Due to the continuing thefts from our store-yes again we had more shop-lifiting this week. Needless to say it is now more than one person who is doing this. The incidents are increasing like crazy.
I had a whole rant about it but I figure those who steal really don't care how we feel(yes we, it affects our staff and customers, not just the owner).
Anyway, I have had to take away the toys from the store as I can not have anyone in the back classroom unless they are registered for a class or a crop-no drop in die cutting anymore-you must pre-register with names, address and phone. If you need to use our washroom(we will still allow this for now) you will need to leave your purse/bags at the front desk with our staff.
We will be displaying less and less products, so if you need more than one adhesive you will have to ask as we will probably have more tucked away.
You may pop by the store and see a Back in 2 Minutes sign-if the staff need to use the bathroom, wash their hands or such they will have to lock the doors for a minute or so. So please don't leave or be mad, we are trying our best.
We were going to have a garage sale in Oct. but we need to rethink this as we can not turn our backs or have people in the classroom. And we had some great free drop in make & takes planned and they are now cancelled till we can work out something else as we will need to have extra staff to run these.
We have had the police here and we do have a camera system installed. And we will prosecute.
I hope our good customers are not offended when we check out what they are doing when they are at the store but we now have to be very careful as it is people who have been in here before and we have helped with their projects who are stealing.
I will tell you that this has made me so sad to have to deal with this and to make changes like these but I am loosing sleep and more.
We will be holding some private events for our loyal customers to make up for this so keep an eye on your emails and if we don't have your email please give it to us.
Marye Anne
Due to the continuing thefts from our store-yes again we had more shop-lifiting this week. Needless to say it is now more than one person who is doing this. The incidents are increasing like crazy.
I had a whole rant about it but I figure those who steal really don't care how we feel(yes we, it affects our staff and customers, not just the owner).
Anyway, I have had to take away the toys from the store as I can not have anyone in the back classroom unless they are registered for a class or a crop-no drop in die cutting anymore-you must pre-register with names, address and phone. If you need to use our washroom(we will still allow this for now) you will need to leave your purse/bags at the front desk with our staff.
We will be displaying less and less products, so if you need more than one adhesive you will have to ask as we will probably have more tucked away.
You may pop by the store and see a Back in 2 Minutes sign-if the staff need to use the bathroom, wash their hands or such they will have to lock the doors for a minute or so. So please don't leave or be mad, we are trying our best.
We were going to have a garage sale in Oct. but we need to rethink this as we can not turn our backs or have people in the classroom. And we had some great free drop in make & takes planned and they are now cancelled till we can work out something else as we will need to have extra staff to run these.
We have had the police here and we do have a camera system installed. And we will prosecute.
I hope our good customers are not offended when we check out what they are doing when they are at the store but we now have to be very careful as it is people who have been in here before and we have helped with their projects who are stealing.
I will tell you that this has made me so sad to have to deal with this and to make changes like these but I am loosing sleep and more.
We will be holding some private events for our loyal customers to make up for this so keep an eye on your emails and if we don't have your email please give it to us.
Marye Anne
Thursday, September 18, 2008
New Products
It has been awhile since I posted on the blog but that is because we have had so many new products arriving at the store.
Loads of new Quickutz with more due in on Sept. 23-can't tell you what they are but there are some cool ones that you will want to ask Santa to pick up for you. We have the cooking dies instock.
Remember there are free club dies with qualifying purchases.
Lots of new Maya Road including stamps, chipboard, sheers and more.
And new Fancy Pants papers, kits and stamps.
Keep watching our shopping site as we keep adding more products.
Happy Scrapping.
Marye Anne
