Category Archive - Business Thoughts
A Birthday Success!
On saturday May 14th, we celebrated our 33rd Birthday! Technically it would be our 33rd anniversary doing business here in Austin, but we prefer calling it our Birthday- more fun and festive! We had Kiwi the Clown painting faces and making the coolest balloon animals. Kiwi is GREAT! We gladly recommend her for any of [...]
Perfect Fit, Perfect Price
Okay, it is a catchy phrase but what exactly does it mean? Perfect Fit- This is simple really. The Fenwick family have been fitting shoes since 1954. All kinds of shoes, from old fashioned white high top “first walkers” that were the rage for most of the 20th century babies in America, to outfitting today’s [...]
Email Offers
For those of you on our e-mail list, you probably have noticed that we are sending specific offers with coupons attached. This is a new strategy that we hope helps families save money on items that they may have been waiting to purchase. We started with an offer on New Balance atheltic shoes in solid [...]
Tax Free WHEW!
As we recover from the craziness that is Tax Free Weekend, I just had to give a shout out to all our fantastic customers. First though, a confession….I greatly dislike Tax Free Weekends. I know it saves everyone some money, but it really comes with a cost. Sandy’s is the top source for kid’s shoes [...]
Construction Woes….
Before I go any further, let me just say that I knew what we were getting into before we moved to our new location. That said, the construction in front of our store has taken a turn for the worse in the nuisance factor. Walmart is ahead of schedule, which is good for our future [...]
Annual Birthday Party
It’s our Birthday Celebrating 32 Years serving Austin area families! This saturday, May 8th, we are celebrating our 32nd year serving Austin area families. But did you know, our family has actually been fitting shoes since 1954? That is alot of shoes. I have been asked many times by kids in our store, “How [...]
Lost Easter Egg Sale a BIG HIT
Just wanted to give an update and a shout out to all our great supporters who came in and took advantage of our First Annual (how does that sound?) Lost Easter Egg Sale. We started the event on the monday after Easter and everyone who came in that week selected an egg and discovered a prize…in [...]
Easter..it ain’t what is used to be
Now before anyone accuses me of being sacriligious, I am speaking about Easter shoes and how business has changed. I grew up in a time of Easter bonnets, and brand new shiny shoes. Easter was the day the churches were filled with pastel dresses, shiny black patent shoes (remember when you could not wear white [...]
Why did we relocate?
I know this is on some of your minds because you have asked me when you stopped in the new store. So I thought it might help to take a moment to explain my reasoning. 31 years we spent in the old shopping center across the street. We moved around and had 5 different locations [...]
So we have a Website…big deal!
Being an Austin based business and not having a website is a lot like living in Austin and never listening to any live music. It seems absurd to most folks. Yet, that is where we have been as a company for several years. About 12 years ago, Sandy’s was a partner in what then was [...]
