"Hello,
I just wanted to let you know about a new direction that OffTheShelf will be taking soon.
On 31st August of this year, OffTheShelf and Payot Chantepoulet will merge and OffTheShelf will no longer exist as a separate entity - we will integrate our books and our ordering setup into Chantepoulet’s English Department. By combining our strengths in this way, OffTheShelf’s knowledge and experience with Payot’s size and infrastructure, we feel we can better serve the English book needs of Geneva.
I, Lisa, and other members of OffTheShelf’s staff will be moving there too. The idea is to recreate OffTheShelf within Chantepoulet as much as possible - the same book knowledge, the same English-speaking welcome, the same service with a smile, and the same ordering capabilities - so that hopefully our customers will continue to feel as at home with us over there as here. (We’ll even be keeping the same telephone number and e-mail address for quite a while, so you can carry on contacting us that way, and any calls or messages will come through to us automatically over there).
Whilst we will all miss our cosy little bookshop, we are very much looking forward to providing you with the same advice and service from a much bigger space. Over the years Payot Chantepoulet has sent customers our way, as they know we’ve always gone the extra mile to help people choose appropriate reads and obtain books quickly, wherever they may come from. Now it’s time to join forces and offer Geneva book-lovers that same service, but with more room and more staff, to enable us to improve the availability and choice of English books in Geneva. Payot has recently become a Swiss-owned independent bookstore again, and these days it makes sense for two local independent bookstores to come together.
I hope you share our excitement in this new direction for OffTheShelf. If you’re able to pop into the bookshop on Friday 29th or Saturday 30th August, those will be our last two days in our current location, and we’ll have drinks on hand to toast our eleven (eleven!) years of operation here. It would be lovely to see you if you can make it. We have vouchers to give away that will entitle you to a 10% discount at Chantepoulet until end of October.
With our best wishes, and our thanks for your custom over the years - hoping to continue to see you in our new home from September on!"
Helen
Helen Stubbs & the OffTheShelf team
OffTheShelf English Bookshop
15 bvd Georges Favon
1204 Geneva, Switzerland
+41 22 311 1090
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www.offtheshelf.ch
> From 1st September 2014:
OffTheShelf at Payot Chantepoulet
5 rue Chantepoulet, 1201 Geneva
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Please note: OffTheShelf gift vouchers will be accepted at Payot Chantepoulet, but only until end December 2014. Any book orders not collected from OffTheShelf by 30th August will be available for collection from Payot Chantepoulet after the first week of September. The student card system is no longer valid.
