14/03/2024
It’s with much sadness we announce that we will have to hit pause on Petit Pas as a business.
The smoke damage at the end of January, wiped out the stores entire inventory, which was soul destroying.
Add to this already existing buildings issues relating to water ingress and damp- we had been trying hard with little success to ensure these issues had been resolved.
Meaning post smoke damage, reopening in our current store just wasn’t looking like an option.
We are still a young business, factoring all costs into the equation, buying ourselves out a lease, moving costs, rates, significantly increased stock costs we feel it’s just not currently viable, or sensible to do so.
All customers with outstanding vouchers or credits, please rest assured we will be in touch to refund these.
I can’t thank the team and our community of customers for the last two years enough 🩷
Our suppliers have been fantastically supportive, thank you for your understanding.
Mags, Catriona and Ciara, your hard work and commitment has been amazing, I’m just so sad we find ourselves in this position.
Our customers, thank you so much for your loyalty, we are so grateful. We can’t believe the growing customer data base we’ve managed to build.
We’ve loved every minute of it and I know the team took great pleasure and pride in providing you all with their first shoes, toddlers shoes, school shoes and every other precious pair of shoes they’ve fitted.
I need to say a very special thanks to Mags, in my opinion, Mags is the most fantastic childrens shoe fitter and she truly loved what she did, making babies, children, as well as parents at ease- and did her job so incredibly well 🩷
We don’t want to pause, but unfortunately the stresses of recent times have taken its toll on me, we’ve seen very positive growth in year two, but too many unforeseen challenges we can’t control- so if anyone might be interested in taking on the name, customer base and any fixtures and fittings, we would be happy to discuss this.
The biggest asset is a wonderful manager and staff who have got to know the children’s shoe game so very, very well.
Who knows what the future holds, but we need time to reflect.
Thank you 🩷🩷
