Chesterfield 1st March 2018

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Mr & Mrs Fairdeal …
WOW! 20 YEARS, SERVICE FOR MR
& MRS FAIRDEAL
Where has that gone, yes
March 6th 1998, we took over the
FAIRDEAL from Jack and Enid who
ran it for the previous 16 years, with
Nev and Betty before them for 10
years, it was Betty who came up
with the name so it all started with
them, and all of them over the years
have been brilliant with us offering
help, advice and
encouragement to try
new ideas so
first off we
want to thank
them for that.
Around 1997
we were
thinking of
setting up our
own business of
some sort as our
son would be
going to school
full time soon and
thought it was a great opportunity
to try so we enrolled on a small
business course at the college were
we learned a lot about the ins and
outs of running a business, the help
available etc, and we came up with
a few ideas and we even went to
the bank and secured a business
manager and funding to proceed
with one of the ideas however we
couldn't find a suitable premises
and it was at that time we heard
that FAIRDEAL was for sale so we
had a talk and went to see Jack and
Enid, and the rest as they say is
history.
After working in factories
on three shifts until we got the shop,
I thought running a shop would be
easy, how wrong was I it\'s not just
the opening hours (which are great)
its the late nights and some
Sundays at the wholesalers buying
new
stock, it\'s
doing the
accounts
to keep
on top of
them,
but
believe
me
Julie or
myself
would
not
change it for
anything we both enjoy serving our
customers sometimes just with a bit
of advice or help with something,
we like to think it is a shop were if
someone just calls in for a browse
around and a quick chat they are
more than welcome ( but they have
to buy something on the way out)
only joking.
Things changed for us
when Tesco came to Clowne as it
did for a number of businesses but
it's called progress and it is now a
big part of the village, we had to
adapt what we sold introducing
different items and ideas, we started
looking into key cutting, helium
balloons and engraving pet discs
which we started selling and have
found them to be useful additions
to our shop and we have stuck it out
even when Wilco came once again
we altered our stock again and
things have been good for us, but
we couldn't have done it without
our customers and for that we are
extremely grateful for there
kindness and support over the year.
So here's to the next 20
years of FAIRDEAL and
hopefully we will still be
there serving our fantastic
customers or just having a
chat with them, and as we
think we are just custodians
of the shop we hope it will
carry on after that with a
new Mr and Mrs FAIRDEAL!
Chris & Julie
40 Mill Street, Clowne
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