Why are you only online? Why don't we have a retail store?

I've been asked again and again where our location is and why we don't have a retail store. I understand people's needs & demands, I understand that you want to be able to see, to sniff, to see the products before you buy. I understand that yet I'm still not willing to open up a store. Why am I so stubborn? Because I like you, that's why. Our tea is imported from the best tea sources around the world and we keep it vacuum sealed until it is ordered. This means that your tea is more fresh and keeps it's moisture as opposed to sitting out on retail shelves for weeks or maybe months. Some tea shops have large tins full of tea, I'm sure they don't sell it all out within a week, so that tea gets dryer by the day. Not only that but it also gets full of dust and air as well as customers sniffing and breathing on it. If that's the type of tea you want, then by all means hit the stores. Here's where we differ. We buy premium tea from premium buyers, and instead of covering the cost of shelf space in a retail environment as well as staffing etc, we have a small staff and no retail costs (displays, signs, rents, etc), this enables us to sell our higher quality teas at comparable costs to the mediocre quality tea usually sold in tea stores. See, I told you I liked you, I'm giving you better quality tea and I'm saving you money.

- I only write for as long as it takes to steep my tea, so that's all for now.

Cheers