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Hansel and Gretel is located in a pretty little house at the edge of
town.
done a lot of custom sewing for people in the years when she had
been raising a family. She knew what were well made and not
well made clothes. Isabelle brings her experience and her
enthusiasm about the business to the partnership.
Hansel and Gretel was envisioned as a shop that would stock a
line of practical clothing all Canadian made. Lynne says the
partners want to sell their goods at the fairest prices possible.
She resents the attitude of some people that specialty shops
are automatically more expensive than larger department stores.
She referred to a recent newspaper article that warned against
the higher prices of specialty shops and said that many people
think just because a shop specializes it will be more expensive.
She says she knows there are people who haven't visited Hansel
and Gretel because of this prejudice, who won't even give the
partners a chance to prove their prices aren't out of line. "We're
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here to meet a need. not scalp the public," Lynne says.
The biggest problem in getting the shop open was getting
stock and it remains one of the headaches of the business. It's
hard for a small business to get prompt delivery of its
merchandise, the women say.
Although they confess the learning all the time in their new
business the partners say that they have encountered no real
problems as far as dealing with customers is concerned. Things
have worked out pretty much as expected so far.
After a full year in business Lynne says she really enjoys it and
would advise other women looking for a new challenge to go into
business for themselves, but not alone. It takes the two of them
to make the business work she says. Two people can share the
work so that they don't feel so tied down. In addition with two
people to share the problems that inevitably arise in business it
helps you from getting depressed.
As a young mother who's now combining motherhood and
business Lynne says the thing she enjoys most about being in
business is meeting peqple who are more than four years old.
After being at home with only preschoolers she -says, you begin
to talk as if you had marbles in your mouth. As a shop owner she
has a chance to meet both adults and children and her own
children are there as well.
That's one of the benefits of not being in business on the main
street of the town she says. If they had opened in a shop uptown
she wouldn't have had the children around the shop at the same
time. The present arrangement combines the benefits of home
and store. She feels that the out of the way location at the corner
of Highway 4 and Huron County Road 25 at the south end of
Blyth may hinder rapid growth of the business but in the long
run she feels it won't hurt the business once people know they're
there.
Besides when things are a little slow, say in the winter, Lynne
still has plenty to do. She uses the spare time for dressmaking
and knitting and the shop provides an outlet for the work of both
skills.
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