Sweet Chocolate opened in Stert Street during September 2009 and closed down today. They thank all their customers for the last 5 years and may have an online presence some time in the future.
They provided some good gifts over Christmas and for special occasions – particularly the jars full of assorted sweets. Everything was half price today. They say there just was not enough footfall to make a shop like theirs work at other times.
Simon’s Emporium (pictured above) , down East St Helen Street, are expanding their range of sweets to fill the gap in the market now Sweet Chocolate have gone.
It is a shame – when my daughter was in town with me, we always popped in to buy a bag of something, but unfortunately, because by necessity they were expensive compared to a normal sweet shop, I couldn’t see them last as a specialist sweetshop, without adding a boutique chocolatier side or something. Best wishes.
Annabel, we lasted 5 years and I have shut the business by choice as I can get out of the lease this month, what do you call a normal sweet shop ? We used to have a chocolate counter but had more interest in sweets so it didn’t cover costs, as I have said many times on this blog, the traffic,parking and lack of variety of shops in Abingdon are its down fall and this won’t change in the next 3 years. Bottom line this was a business to make profit, not for me to float it from my career, it’s a shame that the regulars won’t be able to pick up their specialist sweets anymore and the staff have lost their jobs.
Sweet Chocolate, can you email me at elf in the garden @ yahoo . co . uk without the spaces obviously!
Others are moving from Abingdon, ‘
Heelas are moving to Bayworth. They are ‘hidden’ away
near to the roundabout Radley Road/Oxford Road/Vineyard.
Behind hairdressers on left (as you enter Vineyard).
Had a full breakfast in Crumbs this weekend, before stopping off to drop some electrical items for recycling in the pink recycling bin, East-west St Helens Street carpark, so many empty shops still. Found someone had flytipped a Television set next to it. (Bin seemed very empty-so I wonder how much longer it will be there?).
I’m sorry to see Sweet Chocolate go, though I fully understand the reasons.
I’ve often popped in with my kids to buy them treats so we’ll miss it.
Thanks for giving it a go and good luck for the future.