It started out as an ex-catalogue shop
A much-loved shop in Liverpool that became an "Aladdin's Cave" for customers "will be very missed" as it is set to close after 26 years.
Tony told the ECHO: "Index used to be one of the major high-street outlets similar to Argos. Every year, there was a new fad coming out and you had to keep up with that. "That's been our major seller, people come in and saying 'I can't get this', 'do you sell this?' Along with the new stuff, all the old fashioned stuff we've managed to keep going until the stuff is no longer produced."
"When we were doing all the ex catalogue stuff, we’d have racks of wooden shelves built and at the centre of the shop because all the stuff used to come in on pallets we used to put the pallet in the middle of the floor, strip it down, replace it up and everything was just done cheap and cheerful. The first day we opened, it was mayhem, it was like the stock exchange - people coming in just buying, buying, buying.
Tony said: "There’s customers now coming in who I've known since they were born. Their mums and dads have shopped in here and even their grandparents. I've seen them come in as a newborn baby in a pram then they've grown up and they're in their 20s now. ‘"It's a great feeling, when your standing at the counter and you can hear people walking down aisles talking to each other and you hear some of the things they say like I love coming to this shop, you can get everything you want and you see stuff you didn't know you wanted, it's really nice. You do really feel like you’re putting something back into the community."
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