02/08/2022
Good morning everyone,
This one has been a hard one to write, so please bare with us! Some of you may have noticed that we’ve been MIA for around a week now. We needed to take a bit of time to look at things clearly and make some decisions, and unfortunately we’ve come to the decision to close the shop for good. I know it seems sudden, but its been an extremely difficult few months for us, we’ve faced *so many* challenges, ones we just couldn’t come back from this time. Covid and Brexit driving up the cost of stock, hitting the VAT threshold, competing with illegal disposables being sold in almost every newsagent and phone repair shop, and the cost of living crisis have made everything an impossible uphill slog and our business just isn’t viable any more sadly. We have been fighting a losing battle for quite some time now, and realised it can’t continue.
We have absolutely loved every second of serving the community of Waterloo and Crosby, you have been good to us in our 4+ years of business, and we will never forget it! But now it’s time for us to move forward and look to the future with nothing but beautiful memories of what we built here at The Vapery in our hearts. Thank you to all of you who made our dream a reality with your support, especially those of you who stuck with us right from the very beginning! We really couldn’t have done this without you and it’s meant the world to us.
We’ll be open Friday and Saturday this week to shift some of the remaining stock and say our goodbyes, please come and see us and pick up a bargain before we go! It’ll be lovely to see you all in the shop one final time before we shut the doors.
Thank you and big love to you all!
Annette and Bo ❤️ **eryliverpool