Wilde About Cards

Wilde About Cards is a pretty small shop mainly selling… you’ve guessed it… cards. I must admit the cards on offer are distinctly average and as I’m a bit of a card snob I was a bit disappointed.
However, as Aniela mentions, prices here are much cheaper than high street chains who do seem to manage to get away with hugely over-​charging customers for mediocre cards. So I guess if you’re not a card snob, and don’t want to spend too much you could definitely do worse than support this little independent shop, especially as the staff seem pleasant and friendly.
They also, rather charmingly, sell coloured plain card in case you want to make your own. And for puzzle book fans there seems to be a disproportionately large number of wordsearch books out front considering the size of the shop!

From the outside, the old fashioned sign and crest holds good hopes for what the inside of Wilde About Cards might be, you know, something a little different from your average card shop. I have to admit, I was slightly disappointed. Mimmicking the larger chains such as Birthdays and Clintons, the shop sells average greeting cards that pretty much just prove that many people have little imagination when it comes to birthdays and special occasions. The upside is that they do sell bits of stationary, something that is somewhat of a passion of mine, and the prices are very low, which almost excuses it’s poor quality of stock. The women who run it are charming, so no disrespect to them, perhaps I just hate the majority of naff cards I have ever received. I can thankfully see the upside of having a cheap alternative to the high street card shop chains, they do sell the same thing for a fraction of the extortionate prices you find there!