Photo Express-times | ITS BEYERSherwood for children, children's furniture store on South Third Street in Easton, has closed after being in business in the city from 1940. eventually killed them.Co-owner of Sherwood for children, said of children's furniture store on South Third Street just couldn't compete with the volume and discounts of big-box retailers.
To save a handful of deliveries still to be carried out, customers with outstanding orders of Sherwood will receive refunds on their deposits, co-owner Liz Pereira said Friday. Any questions can be directed to voicemail on your phone company to 610-253-2717, he said.
The store closed for good last week, leaving six people out of work, including the owners.
Letters are sent to customers who placed orders, but I did not receive deliveries, explaining where they can find comparable goods, Pereira said.
"There was a lot of hard thinking and sleepless nights," said of the decision to shutter the shop where he worked approximately 25 years, including the last five as co-owner.Pereira and owner Nancy, who has also worked previously at Sherwood, bought the business in 2005. It was in Downtown Easton by 1940.
The owners had begun considering whether at the end was near for about a year ago, Pereira said, but the emotional tug to soldier through a rough economy was too large to call it quits.
Photos of File Express-times | HIS BEYERLiz Pereira and Nancy Sherwood Hard bought for children in 2005. You're following in July flight furniture and accessory store stopped carrying prams and cots for about two years ago, able to match the larger retailers such as Target and buy buy Baby, Pereira said."The last couple of years with the economy, so many people were affected," said. "We are a high-end shop. Not everyone could afford more. And you have so many people who buy on the Internet. Would people ask a price and if it wasn't the cheapest,moving. "Pereira said that she had hoped and hard remodeling could illuminate the round store and help Fortune but go against that.
"In the end, after we tossed around the idea, not yet was feasible," said.Julie and Pat Loquasto paid about $ 1400 for furniture that they ordered months ago to Sherwood. Three pieces have been delivered to their home in Bethlehem Township, PA., in recent weeks. Two other pieces were not changing a hutch table and Rails for a convertible crib, they said.
Julie Loquasto has said that there was no hint of a problem when deliverymen made a initial delivery around the end of February. The Loquastos were told then that the other parts should arrive in a couple of weeks, he said.
He said the hutch wasn't paid for but were convertible crib Rails.
"I hope that someone will call me back," said. "It is sad. I loved thatshop. "
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