Goody Two Shoes Owner Selling Business After 28 Years In The City Centre

After 28 years selling footwear to people in the Invercargill community, Goody Two Shoes co-owner and operator Jan Blee is selling the Esk Street Mall based business to spend more time with her grandchildren; take up painting; do some “gardening” and “renovations” to her home; and is also keen to learn how to “make cheese”.

“I am going to do some courses too, just spend the time doing the things I have always wanted to do, but have never done,” Mrs Blee said.

Speaking to whatsoninvers.nz today (June 23) Mrs Blee said while the decision to sell the business wasn’t a difficult one – she hoped it would sell to the “right person, who can take it to where is should be, with a fresh new approach, and really put their own mark on it”.

Goody Two Shoes first opened in the Trustbank Arcade [now SIT Arcade] in 1989, then in 1996 the business moved to its current location in Esk St.

Mrs Blee said comments from the public had been amazing and very heart-warming.

“I have been a bit blown away with the comments really, and a bit tearful. I love living in this community and I am a really community focused person. People have been very nice and really sweet. I am staying in Invercargill and will still very much be a part of the community,” she said.

Mrs Blee said the Christchurch-based landlord of the Esk St building where the shoe shop is currently housed, “is a really lovely guy, who has a solid, enthusiastic and realistic approach” to the business lease, and there would be the option of another long-term lease for the new owners.

“I want to leave the business in the nicest possible way and respectably,” she said.

The business was listed yesterday (June 22) for sale with Bayleys here