It’s About Time

It is hard to believe that our last blog article was over a year ago. All I can say is “it’s been a busy year” and “time flies”. Hopefully this will help to catch up.

As some of you know, since it’s inception, we have always had a local retail presence in the Mount Dora area. Originally we were the Crabbage Patch up at Renningers, the local farmers/flea market. After that, for 2 years, we had a regular retail store that was dedicated to everything hermit crab. We also changed our name to The Hermit Crab Patch (see below). We really enjoyed having a place where our local customers could come, bring their crabs, and get everything they needed. We were also fortunate to have several of our out of state customers drop by while they were on vacation. 

It wasn’t however with out it’s challenges. The financial and time commitment of having the retail operation while maintaining our online store led us to not renew our lease at the end of 2010. So now we are solely selling through our online store. It has been kind of a bitter sweet transition for Tammy and I. On one hand we certainly do like the flexibility we now have to pursue additional personal and business projects. And I must say that spending a quiet Sunday together has been great. On the other hand we do miss seeing our customers and their ‘crabby’ families.

For now, we are staying with the current setup and looking to new areas of focus and growth.