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The owner of the adult store Aristocrat Adult Boutique is hitting back at public criticism condemning him for relocating his store to Greerton.
John McCoy is about to open the doors to his relocated store on Chadwick Road, about 100m from the Greerton Village School.
Aristocrat Adult Boutique store owner John McCoy outside the new shop in Greerton.
“Everything in the shop is passed by the New Zealand censor, there is nothing in the store, like magazines and DVDs, that you can’t get from a stationers, service stations or local video libraries – we sell the same stuff in a controlled situation.”
“They think it is a sex shop, but we don’t sell sex.”
John, a former police youth aid worker, has been operating the family owned shop in Tauranga for 20 years and says he has never encountered any opposition.
“I have not had any complaints.”
He says cheaper rents and lack of parking near his previous store – Aristocrat Adult Shop – on Cameron Road have forced the move to the Greerton Shopping Centre.
“The rents were getting too high in the city and the parking was difficult – in Greerton there are no parking meters.”
From 2001 to 2003 John also ran the R18 store XTC in Greerton and never encountered any problems.
“There was never one complaint – it was the exactly the same type of store.”
John says the first shop they opened in Tauranga 15 years ago was opposite the Salvation Army Family Store on Cameron Road, almost next door to Tauranga Primary School and never once received a complaint.
The new shop front on Chadwick Road simply features the store’s name and the inside of the shop is not visible from the outside.
John says people cannot be offended walking past the store as frosted glass blocks the view into the shop and the doorway is screened off.
“People don’t have any reason to hang around outside because they cannot see inside the shop, all there is, is the name of the shop. If you’re not 18 you don’t get in.
“Unless people tell the children what is in there, they would never know.”
John says they enforce a strict R18 policy including asking anyone they are not sure of for identification.
“Normal, ordinary people are our customers. A lot of people appreciate that they can come in the shop and everyone is doing the same thing. No-one feels embarrassed.”
“All we have had is positive feedback. We have customers from 18 to 85 come in.”
Posted on 23-02-2012 07:52 | By tonyb1
You go John, is it not amazing how people judge you because of what you are doing now and try to slander all your good work, half these moral queen,s husbands are more than likely your customers lol you got my support and custom