FREE Masks To All Our In-Store Vape Shop Customers

To help customers The Vape Shop has acquired masks that will be offered FREE to all customers that enter our vape stores, if they have forgotten to bring one out with them. While it is not mandatory to wear a mask when outside in public, a member of the public must wear one when entering any store. This new mask law comes into play on the 24th July 2020. We envisage that a lot of people will forget or not be aware of this requirement initially, especially in the first couple of weeks. So if you buy your e liquids or vape products from our high-street vape shops don’t worry. We can provide you with a free triple ply mask that you can wear while in our stores and take with you when you leave.

Along with offering free masks we also provide all customers access to Purell Advanced hand sanitiser and apply social distancing access and positioning while inside our shops. So far, everybody has been accepting and encouraging of the new in-store Covid safety guidelines that help protect them and our staff.  

Online Vape Shopping Is Safest

Shopping online for your vape products is not as fun as walking into a shop and viewing products directly. The benefit of talking to knowledgeable vape staff, face to face, does not transfer over to the web with the equivalent being the online chat being which is a poor comparison. However, shopping online for your vape products IS the safest option when it comes to protecting yourself against catching the dreaded COVID-19. The Vape Shop has an online vape shop that is easy to use and offers a wider selection of e liquid and vape products than you can get in-store.

Don’t Like The Postage Fees?

If, like most people, you don’t like the added cost of postage being added onto your vape purchase online then The Vape Shop offers the extra option to purchase and pay online and collect in-store. In choosing this option the customer simply needs to come to the shop door and give their order number/name and collect the pre-packaged goods they have already purchased. This avoids having to come into the shop and reduces any interaction with staff and other customers. It’s also a free option which bypasses the postage fees.

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If the UK Government follows the policies of the EU countries like Austria, France, Spain, Italy and others who have put in place strict social distancing quarantines to avert the spread of Coronavirus then at some point vape shops will, like other shops, have to close. This closure could last from 2 weeks up to a month. No one really knows. But, if the rumours coming out of the Government are to be listened to, it is definitely going to happen. Vapers have been flocking to our shop offline and online buying in bulk over the last week to get ready for a period of isolation and shop closure.

The Costs Of Coronavirus Vape Shop Closure

The impact of shop closure, imposed by the Government as a way to combat the spread of Coronavirus, on a lot of small vape businesses in the UK is going to be fatal. Most of these small vape businesses can take a few days, possibly even a week of non-trading but if it extends into a month or two? What then? These small vape shops will still have to pay rent, rates and other bills regardless of whether their shops are closed. We are hoping that along with the order to close, the Government will also offer financial support such as rate free and possibly rent free periods during the imposed closures.

Act Now, Overdrafts & Short Term Loans

As for The Vape Shop and other main businesses that have a thriving online presence our businesses will take a small knock but we can weather the storm generating income through online ordering and cash flow. Cash flow is King in an emergency like this and only the businesses with access to cash flow, and an online business model, will come through generally unscathed. If, as a vape business, you don’t have much cash flow or an online presence that produces income it would be advisable to seek out help from the banks to arrange overdrafts or short term loans to cover the period of the next few months or you may go bust through no fault of your own.

Forward Thinking & Planning

Unfortunately this pandemic could not be foreseen, apart from the Author Dean Koontz who wrote a fiction novel in the 1980’s about the Coronavirus epidemic released in China. Titled ‘The Eyes of Darkness’, the book revolves around a grieving mother investigating the mysterious circumstances of her son’s death, is a peculiar reference to a killer virus known as “Wuhan-400”. Creepy I know! So apart from Dean Koontz no one else saw it coming but we all must deal with it the best way we can, and forward thinking and planning can save lots of vape businesses from having to close permanently.

Business As Usual For The Vape Shop

Our online business www.TheVapeShop.co.uk will be operating as normal throughout any quarantine procedures ensuring all our customers can receive their vape juice and products the next day delivered to their door. So, there is no real need to panic.

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