Hartlepool mum opens ‘happiest shop in Hartlepool’

Hartlepool Mail

The “happiest shop in Hartlepool” opened its doors at the weekend in a bid to help people across the town who are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.

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00:00 And with Susie in her new venture in York Road, it's very colourful. Tell me about the shop.

00:08 It's colourful because it's called Rainbows and Randoms. Basically, my mum was, my mum's my big inspiration in anything I do.

00:17 But she basically was like a rainbow, she lit up any dark sky. And I wanted to, me and my boy watch rainbows together to remind us of her.

00:25 So I wanted to bring a bit of rainbow and colour into everyone's lives.

00:28 So there's no theme in the shop, you're selling everything and anything.

00:32 I am, yeah. There's sort of like a lot of bright colours, which is the rainbows part, and I'm upcycling furniture to that.

00:37 And then there's randoms, which does mean a bit of everything really, yeah.

00:40 How long have you been open?

00:42 This is my third day, I opened on Saturday, so I was off Sunday with my boy, and then Monday, today.

00:48 How's it going so far?

00:50 Yeah, it's going great actually, I've had quite a good response. Saturday was really busy, the opening day.

00:56 I panicked a bit because no one came, and then it suddenly filled up the shop.

00:59 But yeah, I'm getting good comments, really good. It's just sort of trying to convince everybody that it's not just a toy shop.

01:05 I get the toys in, I get them in bulk. So the reason I'm doing this as well is to help the community.

01:10 Because not everyone can afford to click, click, click on Amazon, so I buy bulk toys in.

01:15 I look around on Google and find out the lowest prices, and I try and undercut them as well.

01:19 So everyone's getting stuff. We've got pre-loved and new, so I like to try and help people as well.

01:25 as well. It looks great, good luck with it. Thank you very much.

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