COVID-19 Update

Hello everyone.

I hope you all are healthy and safe. This is a trying time, most particularly difficult for those of us who are ill, have family they are worried about or who's livelihoods or businesses are gone or forever altered by the SARS-COV-2 virus or COVID-19.

Because I am among the "vulnerable" population I have taken a hard and painful look at the realistic probability of remaining open as a brick and mortar shop. Given the overhead involved and the time that it will take for me to be relatively safe operating in the public sphere, the answer is, I will not reopen barring an unforeseen miracle.

So it becomes: Adapt as a business or die. I have a lease that I am obligated to honor through January 2021 and in that time I will transition my shop to online sales only despite my misgivings about selling vintage clothing online given the narrow fit confines of vintage pieces. I will be selling in a "close-out" mode with items priced at 50-75% of their retail value with discounted or free shipping within the USA. Because my space has been closed to the public since mid-February for my ill timed buying trip to California, it remains a "clean space" and I will initially operate from there until my lease runs out.

Look to this blog for more news as I form my online presence. I will also renew the fliers outside of my door to include my online information as it develops. I will continue to offer only the finest vintage items in peak condition to my online customers as you have come to expect from your visits to Nostalgie this past year.

I will sincerely miss my customers and the small community that I have come to know. If I'm at the shop (the lights on but door locked) feel free to knock on the door. I will mask up and say "Hello" at a distance. Thank you for your patronage.

Cathy
Nostalgie

Third Update

Today it was announce that non-essential businesses will remain closed in CT until May 20th. I had suspected as much and had written most of May off of the books already. It remains to be seen what will happen in the future.

This is a hard time for our communities here in Connecticut and our tiny slice of it here in the Deep River, Chester, river towns and shoreline area. If you can support local merchants by ordering online or getting take-out food, that will help lessen some of the stress.

Stay safe. We are all in this together.