Paperchase coming to Shrewsbury!

Wanted to take a moment to welcome Paperchase to Shrewsbury.

You guys are my favourite card shop in the world (apart from mine, obviously!) and I wish you all the best in the town.

Far from viewing Paperchase as competition I believe they bring something different to the mix. More importantly their arrival, like the arrival of quite a few growing national retail chains, is a reflection of the fact that Shrewsbury is one of the great survivors of the recession, a local county town with a large catchment area and a visitor town with both a national and international catchment area.

Never been to Shrewsbury? Do pay us a visit.

Paul.

Latest arrivals.

I'm happy to announce the arrival of a few cards by both local artist Kit Ackroyd and his Cheshire based daughter Vivyan Whittaker. Lovely cards so thank you to both of you.

Two weeks ago a range arrived featuring details taken from paintings by Staffordshire artist Terry Silk and these have been selling well. thank you to you as well Terry.

Keyrings have now arrived by local man Peter Sandilands. these are £1.95 each and feature local scenes, Union Jack flags, Welsh Dragons and so on. Great gifts from a day out in Shrewsbury!

Football team mousemats are still selling well, especially the Shrewsbury Town 7-0 souvenir ones - will they never stop going on about it... :)

This years ceramic fridge magnets are now ordered and won't be too long now. They have the word Shrewsbury rather than Shropshire on some of them following lots of requests last year.

And finally, we have finished designing next Christmas's 'Shrewsbury Calendar'. Exclusive to us this will be the 3rd year for the calendar and we think it is a bit better once again. Last year they went all round the world so we are planning on putting a world map on the wall over Xmas 2010 and marking all the places we get told about! Just a bit of fun but should add some interest to stop us flagging over the busy Christmas period.

Shall i shut up about christmas now...?

Paul.

:)

Mother's Day is 14th March

Yes, don't forget it's Mother's Day on March 14th this year and we have the best range of Mother's Day cards so far. Undoubtedly the best in Shrewsbury!

The shop hasn't changed much since my last post, which seems ages ago now, but here are a couple of pictures anyway.

The stock level continues to grow as we reinvest the profits each month and the number of customers is still growing as well. Thank you to all of you who visit us - we are always pleased to see you!

Still here!!!

Haven't posted for a while now, so just to say we are still here and the shop is going very well at the moment. We do seem to be one of the success stories to come out of the recession.

We now offer you not only the main section of the shop, which sells a very wide range of quality greetings cards and gifts but also our new Discount Zone at the far end of the shop which also has a very wide range of cards - but priced so competitively that we just know you will be back for more.

We are open every day until Christmas during all the normal opening hours of the shopping centre - so do pop in. We love to see you.

Paul.

DISCOUNT ZONE now open!!!!

Yes the Discount Zone is now open, selling all the lines my dad used to sell in his shop - and more besides.

Lots of other new lines in stock as well. the newest arrival is a display of charity christmas card packs, supporting many of ther well known national charity organisations.

:)

New discount zone.

My father's discount card shop - also in the Pride Hill Centre - is closing down this weekend due to his well earned retirement.

Dad, I hope you have a great time over the years to come - although with the long list of DIY jobs Mom has ready for you it may be that you will soon wish you were back at work....

To ensure customers can still buy many of the products dad used to sell, Green Ginger will be opening a new 'Discount Zone' on Monday 27th July. There will be a large range of recession beating 'value' cards, as well as banners, badges, balloons and many of the other handy things you need to make that special occasion that little bit more of an event.

Rest assured however that the full range of quality cards and the full range of our famous 'Name Cards, will still be there and the ranges will continue to grow as before as the business expands.

Wesite down for improvements

The website is still down for another month as we make some changes to it. Don't worry though, it will be back eventually (- never enough time....)