closing.

Not a surprise to some of you, but after a year or so of hard thinking I decided to close down the shop and join the one man bands(almost). My shop lease was up in August and a rent rise would have been inevitable. Staff retiring as well as my well publicised decision to give up retailing appliances left the shop rather redundent other than use as an office and a spares counter which cost more to staff (with a knowledgable person)than it took in £££. I also found myself shop bound rather than doing what I do best, ie, working in peoples houses.
I am going to move my office into my house and my one remaining staff member is to carry out her work at her home via call divertion. I also intend to carry on and increase spare’s mail order and hey, maybe even get time to see the kids sometime.
I will need to shed some work as well but want to continue with Smeg and MFI and of course UKW E jobs as well as most of the cash jobs that have always been the major part of my business.

This shop has been an institution in Bishops Stortford and I am preparing myself for the flak when the news gets out. I did feel that some people regard us as somekind of charitable public service. I know there is no way back after this and only time will tell if I will reget it, but as of now, I have just had enough…and need a change.