The Pink Platform Stiletto: January 2016

My husband and I traveled to Melbourne just after Christmas, the plan was:

Go to the Boxing Day Cricket Test match
See Cats the musical
Road trip to the Great Ocean Road
Eat lots and
SHOP!

Due to some outrageous bushfires around the Great Ocean Road and some woeful cricket by the West Indies team those two were off the list before we arrived. This only left us with Cats, Shopping and Eating lots - too easy!

You may recall from my previous visits to Melbourne, that I had two really positive shopping experiences (check them out here and here) and one negative. I can happily report that this visit was definitively of the positive variety and mainly because of a new shoe store I discovered called Genkek.

On the day we arrived, we set out to explore the locality and I stumbled across a very appealing shoe store in a dark arcade. I glanced in and thought instantly, "this will be one of those very expensive shoe shops" and "What is "Genkek"?", but then I noticed the huge sign saying "Minimum 50% off, maximum 70%" they were my kind of figures!!

I walked in, and instantly spied a pair of Silver Glitter Pointy Toed heels beneath a 70% off sign - OMG. Tried them on and put them aside to purchase. Then I wandered around, my eyes bulging, with one shoe off ready to pounce. After about a 5 minute walk around the store, I walked out with the one pair for $21, a membership to the Genkek Club for a further 5% discount, the address of the Flagship store a few blocks away and a massive grin on my face.

We then arrived at the Flagship store and it was a real "Hallelujah" moment, it was beautifully fit out, no clutter, lots of light, lots of sparkles and lots of unique shoes. Check out the pics below. I purchased another two pairs from the Flagship store and flagged another pair or two to check out later in the trip and decide then whether to buy.

Genkek is great for the following reasons:

The prices are very reasonable - even before the huge discounts I experienced.
The uniqueness of the shoes.
The mish mash of colours used, every other shoe store is using a bland colour palate at the moment.
The friendliness of the staff I dealt with on my 3 visits to the stores.
They have an online store - with a massive sale right now!
Free shipping within Australia on orders over $100.

Genkek needs to address the following 'cons':

The sizing is a tad confusing - but the staff can obviously help.
There are currently only 2 stores in Australia and both happen to be only a block apart in Melbourne CBD.

As you can see the Pros far outweigh the Cons. Do yourself a huge favour and jump on the Genkek bandwagon asap and throw them a like on Facebook!

Check out all my purchases below - which are your favs? All of them purchased for about $100 in total. AMAZING!