When we launched The Alcohol-Free Shop in 2006, we had planned to start a blog straight-away – somehow, we never quite got around to it. Not that we’ve been sitting on our hands during that time, but the blog just never seemed to go live. Anyway, three years late, but I’m glad to say we are finally here!

My name is John Risby. Regular customers will know me from shipping notices or from email/telephone contact you may have had with the shop. Some of you will know me personally from our Manchester store. I started the shop with my wife Christine after I gave up alcohol for health reasons and found a lack of choice and availability of decent alcohol-free drinks (I’ll write more about the background to the shop later). I’ll be taking the lead in writing on the blog, but hopefully you’ll also see posts from Christine and our staff too.

I expect we’ll be writing about the day-to-day activities at the shop, new products, reviews of existing products, tasting tips, how-to’s, industry news, thoughts on current alcohol policy and potential changes to the law etc. But if you have any suggestions on what you’d like us to talk about, please let me know.

I like to think we already have a good relationship with our customers, and many of you have told us that too. I hope this blog will enhance that relationship so, to that aim, we also welcome your comments and feedback to our posts – this isn’t a one-way medium. Please feel free to leave your comments at the end of any blog entry.

I’m really looking foward to this blog – as we all are here at The Alcohol-Free Shop – and I hope we all get to know each other a lot better as a result.

Tags: welcome

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 21st, 2009 at 11:01 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.