A ‘vile’ poison pen letter that called for a charity shop to ‘shutter’ has helped boost the store’s trade - after it was posted on social media.
The nasty note penned to Kreate, a homeware store that gives work experience to adults with learning disabilities, said it was 'not welcome' and would likely 'fail'.
But when the manager Ruth Denton shared the handwritten message on Facebook, hundreds of well-wishers voiced their support for the store in Sheffield, South Yorks.
And she now says they’ve had people from as far away as America making plans to visit - while adding that the letter had helped put the shop “on the map”.
The nasty note penned to Kreate, a homeware store that gives work experience to adults with learning disabilities, said it was 'not welcome' and would likely 'fail'.
But when the manager Ruth Denton shared the handwritten message on Facebook, hundreds of well-wishers voiced their support for the store in Sheffield, South Yorks.
And she now says they’ve had people from as far away as America making plans to visit - while adding that the letter had helped put the shop “on the map”.
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00:00 My name's Ruth, I'm the manager of Create. We received a letter on Saturday from an anonymous
00:11 person wishing the shop to close. It's really been quite disheartening and upsetting to
00:20 receive a letter like this, but we've definitely turned a negative into a positive and the
00:27 response that we've had from people locally and all over has just been incredible. We've
00:34 had people from America message, we've had online orders which we don't even do. It's
00:41 just been incredible. So, you know, for us as a charity it's just been fantastic. We're
00:48 really looking forward to having the students starting in two weeks' time. They're going
00:52 to be learning retail experience, working in the shop and it's just going to be really