Our wholesaler Best Pets has regular monthly offers and here is January’s list.
All these special offers are also available online
The Angell Pets Team
We are closed for Christmas day and most of Boxing day and most of New Years day (see my blog for exceptions). I work seven days a week and these are my only three days off a year. However I make sure that we are available through our online pet shop during these periods and that we are open on every other day of the holidays.
A lot of small pet shop owners complain about the challenges facing their business in the modern world then refuse to take the steps necessary to protect their pet shop from those challenges. They complain about big chains being open longer but won’t open seven days a week or on bank holidays or over the Christmas period. They complain about online pet supermarkets; faceless, uncaring giants that do not know anything about their products (all valid commentary) but then fail to invest in an online pet shop presence to compete with them(and in fact compete very well as they would be able to offer the help, advice, additional services and customer service the big pet shop companies and warehouses cannot).
Well we are a different sort of independant pet shop. We open when we are needed, we have an excellent online pet shop, we have an active Facebook page to interact with customers that can’t make it into the shop and we deliver free to our local community, offer nail clipping for small animals for only £1 with a free health check, free water testing (by someone who lectured on water quality on a diploma course not some little Saturday person who doesn’t know one piece of very soft anatomy from a bonier bit), offer micro chipping and lots of free advice. We support our local community with school talks and community events, charity prizes and free advertising of charity events.
Over the past few years (we have been open over 4 years now and we opened in the very depths of the recession too) we have seen independent pet shops close all over the country in the face of growing competition from pet superstores etc. (you know the ones) that should not be able to hold a candle to the small independent pet shop (and in reality everyone knows they can’t), and online warehouses. In all case, including that of friends of ours, none of them have taken up the challenge and put things in place to protect their business.
How many had an active Facebook page (so often, when I’ve talked to business owners they said things like “I don’t see the point” or have bothered to find out how to use it properly)? How many had an online pet shop or anything more than just a one page site with the business name and address on it. I was going to say better than nothing but not really. If it is not an actively updated page it may as well not exist, it won’t come up in any searches (unless someone was searching for that specific business name). How many still didn’t open on Sundays and bank holidays? How many closed at 5pm so anyone on their way home from work couldn’t just pop in and get their supplies? How many didn’t do free deliveries from their pet shop to their local community and so missed out on all those customers that just couldn’t make it in when the shop was open or found the shop just that little too far to travel?
Again our pet shop is different. That is why, to use terms you hear on the business slot on breakfast TV every day, our total sales and market share have continued to grow ever since we opened and with the launch of our online store, backed up with the knowledge of our staff on the products we sell, continues to grow almost daily.
Have a great Christmas and a prosperous New Year everyone.
The Angell Pets Team
Instead of buying a pet for Christmas how about buying a kit or starter set up. Then after Christmas, when all the excitement has died down, the child can come and pick out an animal to go with the kit.
No animals to worry about caring for on the run up to Christmas whilst trying to keep the present a secret and if it turns out they didn’t really want a pet then there are only inanimate objects to sell as “unwanted” gifts and not a living creature to find a new home for.
We have a large range of set ups and starter kits for sale from a few pounds to complete reptile kits. Also complete fish tank kits in attractive packaging that make ideal gifts at resonable prices.
How about a millipede set up, spider, scorpion, stick insect or landsnail. Everything you need to care for these interesting and easy to care for creatures that, after Christmas, would make an excellent pet for a child. Have you been pestered all year for a snake or lizard. Why not buy the set up and come in after the day to select a pet at your leisure.
We are open over the holiday period, so you won’t have to put up with the badgering for long!
Also, more kids get money at Christmas now than ever before. You could wait until the new year to go with them to select a set up for a pet and put up with all the pleading in between, or you could pop in and see us, We don’t have time off between Christmas and new year so you can.
The Angell Pets Team
Our Juwel tanks are usually set at prices over 20% below RRP. For the next three months we have and extra 10% off these already low prices.
Juwel Rio 125 tank, RRP £289, our usual price £227, now only £205
Juwel Rio 125 cabinet, RRP £149, or usual price £117, now only £106
Juwel Rio 180 tank, RRP £339, our usual price £269, now only £242
Juwel Rio 180 cabinet. RRP £189, our usual price £149, now only £134
Juwel Rio 240 tank, RRP £449, our usual price £355, now only £320
Juwel Rio 240 cabinet, RRP £215, our usual price £168, now only £151
Juwel Rio 300 tank, RRP £725, our usual price £574, now only £517
Juwel Rio 300 cabinet, RRP £255, our usual price £199, now only £179
Juwel Rio 400 tank, RRP £995, our usual price £789, now only £710
Juwel Rio 400 cabinet, RRP £275, our usual price £218, now only £196
Juwel Trigon 190 tank, RRP £539, our usual price £425, now only £382
Juwel Trigon 190 cabinet, RRP £239, our usual price £189, now only £170
Juwel Trigon 350 tank, RRP £1095, our usual price £868, now only £781
Juwel Trigon 350 cabinet, RRP £295, our usual price £235, now only £211
We will be adding more of the Juwel aquarium range to our website over the next week or so, including the economy Rekord and the luxury Vision. Thease are avaiable to order at the offer prices from now but will take a little time to upload to the site. If you want a price for one of these Juwel aquarium ranges, just give uas a call or drop us a line and we will get back to you with price and availability.
This Juwel aquarium web offer is for all sizes and all colours of the whole Juwel aquarium range. Some colours are more popular and at these prices could sell out quickly. If you want to take advantage of these excellent juwel aquarium offer, do get in quick to ensure you can get the Juwel aquarium of your choice,
Normal lead times for delivery are up to two weeks from order confrimation. For local delivery (sorry we cannot offer our normal FREE local delivery for these items due to their large size) lead times are one week for instock items.
So if you have been wanting a fish tank for a while but were put off by the price, want to get one for yourself or a loved one for Christmas, or have read this blog and thought “I fancy that”, then take advantage of these fantastic prices whilst you can. Of course the after sales advice on setting up your prized possesion is FREE. We are not your normal webstore that is willing and able to sell you a tank but is not able to help you after that.
The Angell Pets Team
Pet shop Gloucester November offers
The Angell Pets Team
We have been working on providing an online pet store service for our customers who live too far away to make it into our store but still want to use a pet shop with a reputation for caring for our customers animals. The site was launched today.
Orders generated from our online pet store will be received in our Gloucester pet shop and picked and packed by our experienced staff from our shop stock (not from a warehouse by a nameless picker on minumum wage with no interest in your order). Orders will then be dispatched the next morning by one of our couriers.
The online pet store site is new and still needs alot of tinkering, more photos, some technical changes to the price displays etc. but it is now live and reporting to our shop system. Some stuff might move around the site as these changes are put in place but the main structure is there.
One thing you will quickly notice is that livestock can’t be purchased with a “click” of the mouse from our online pet store. We strongly believe that buying an animal needs a proper dialogue between the seller and the buyer. If you select livestock you will be directed to call us to discuss the sale. The on line pet store site will however let you know just what we have in stock and some of what we can get.
Our range is large and getting larger every day. My next task is to get all of the stock in the shop on the online pet store site. All of our main sellers are there but we have a lot of other stock that we order less frequently still to be put on, so if you can’t find what you want this week, check back as it may just suddenly appear. Of course you can always give us a ring and we can get in what you need (if we don’t already have it).
We pride ourselves that we stock all the good big brands and a lot of smaller brands that you may not see elsewhere. You may find us light on some of the “supermarket brands” on our online pet store. This is because we stock products that offer quality at good prices. Low quality products that in many cases do not suit the animal are not what we are about. We do have a couple of the obvious ones but that’s just so we can ask the customer that comes in why they are using such a product and then help them find a better, often cheaper alternative.
The Angell Pets Team
We will be soon launching our new pet shop webstore. Whilst you will not be able to buy livestock directly from this site (we believe you should always want to see livestock before buying and will not send our livestock by courier) the list of livestock available in store will be on there and it will be a live list. In the mean time here is a list of the livestock currently available at Angell Pets. We will continue to give updates of new stock in through our email subscriber list and on our Facebook page.
Mammals
Birds
Lizards
Snakes
Chelonia
Amphibians
Spiders
Scorpions
Other Invertebrates
Coldwater fish
Tropical fish
Aquatic invertebrates
This list, whilst extensive is only what we currently have in the shop. We also have a network of breeders and suppliers from whom we can get a wide range of animals and colour morphs to order. Please remember ALL of our animals are captive bred, most in the UK.
Pet shop Gloucester offers July 2013
Keep up to date with all our offers and register on our pet shop Gloucester email list and get an extra 10% discount.The Angell Pets Team
We will endeavour to keep these items in stock but they often sell through quickly. The offers are on for the entire month, so if we run out we will get more stock in, if our supplier still has some.
The Angell Pets Team
These discount UVB tubes are suitable for chameleons, day geckos, green lizards etc. Any reptile requiring UV light but not at the intensity of the desert species.
This offer is whilst stocks last and ends on Tuesday 30th April, so grab them whilst they are there. Remember UVB tubes only give out UV for between 6-9months and then need to be replaced. The tube will still be working but will no longer be giving out light in the correct UV spectrum.
The Angell Pets Team
