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The shop suddenly closed in the city in March



Popular greeting card retailer A Write Card is welcoming shoppers once again following its shock closure in March. Customers and staff alike are thrilled about the re-opening of the store based in the heart of Coventry.

Shoppers can head to the store located on the ramp between Cross Cheaping and Broadgate after it re-opened under new management. Workers were left devastated after the abrupt closure of the greeting card store back in March.

It is understood all employees have now returned to work and they say are said to be "over the moon".

A Write Card reopened on Monday, May 30 "under new ownership, but with the same great staff", says store manager Sharon Midwinter. She said: “Lots of new amazing stock, gifts and cards. Pop in and take a look, will be great to see all our customers new and old.”

Employees also spoke of their elation at welcoming customers back. Eve Edwards told CoventryLive : “I am over the moon to be back working at A Write Card. I could not be happier to have the doors open again and welcome customers back into the shop. It has been done lovely with a variety of cards gifts balloons banners and many more on sale.”

Sharon continued: “All our staff have come back so we are obviously over the moon. I was contacted by the new owners who phoned me up to see if I wanted my old job back and I have managed to get all of my old staff back which is great, so they are all over the moon to have their jobs back.”

While the store was shut, Sharon said that she managed to find another role. However, some of the other employees begrudgingly started to consider retirement.

Sharon said: “I got a new job and the other ladies thought about retiring and things like that because they are a bit older but obviously as soon as we knew the store was reopening, they knew they were going to come back.”

It is understood the business' Market Way store will also be re-opening in the coming weeks, although this is yet to be confirmed. Shoppers can, however, head to the Nuneaton store which recently opened its doors to customers once again following its closure earlier this year.

dutchman wrote:This sounds like an accounting trick to me, same owner, slightly different name?

dutchman wrote:Have they paid any outstanding rent and if not why is the city council allowing them to reopen?

Nuneaton town centre shop re-opens less than two months after it mysteriously closed



A Nuneaton town centre shop has re-opened less than two months after it mysteriously closed. A Write Card is back serving customers again from its unit in the Abbeygate Shopping Centre.

As we reported in our newsletter, the shop closed its doors in mid-March after a sign appeared on the door. The sign said that the company ceased trading as of March 16.

But now the Nuneaton-based store has revealed that a new owner has been found - and they are back open for business.

A post on the shop's page on Facebook reads: "With great pleasure we have re-opened. A new owner, new cards, memorial items, plus lots of bunting and balloons for your jubilee parties. Pop down and have a look."

It was not just the branch in Nuneaton that closed in March, so did stores in neighbouring Coventry and also Tamworth. The business' store in Cross Cheaping in Coventry city centre has now reopened in near-identical circumstances.

In the meantime, the re-opening of the branch in the Abbeygate Shopping Centre comes as another shop in the mall has also opened its doors again.

The town's main Post Office branch is now serving customers, after it too closed its doors without warning back in February.

dutchman wrote:What is to stop them doing the same thing again?