Unfortunately, it is about time again: We’re moving. We had a really nice time in our neighborhood – it’s close to the city center, but still quiet. Unfortunately, it now is too small for us, and storing books in the basement is not really ideal. Whenever we get deliveries from larger trucks, it’s a problem due to the narrow streets. But apart from that we had a lot of difficulties here in recent years, which we would like to leave behind (not to mention the water in the cellar right now …).
Due to the continuous growth in the roots of compassion hearquarters, we need more space, but we’ve been searching for a nice spot for a while with no success. So: Industrial area. A more rational decision, which might not be such a nice working atmosphere and it means even longer bike and bus routes for many of us.
But we’ll have: Space, no basement, more office space and space for table tennis. It’s a really nice warehouse (compared to others), we have more space in the kitchen and and and 🙂

So, as of August 15th, 2014 roots of compassion has a new address! You will find us in the Rudolf-Diesel-Straße 37, 48157 Münster.

Please understand that therefore we will not process or ship any orders on August 15th, 2014! But shortly after things should be back to normal again … Thank you for your understanding!

As you can imagine, we prefer to ship boxes instead of carrying them. So we have a special sale coming up this weekend. From August 1st till the 3rd you can get a discount on a lot of items, such as shirts, shoes, belts, patches, stickers and buttons.
Help us clear our shelves, so we have to carry less stuff to our new HQ and we can finish the move early! Thanks!

Finally we’ll have a moment to give you a status update
As you might have noticed, Münster was hit by an extreme rainstorm on Monday. In some places it rained 290 liters per square meter, thousands of cellars got flooded, lots of trees got uprooted and even two people killed. We are all ok, fortunately, but the water has also found its way into our basement storage. While some of us came to the office right away, there was little we could do to prevent more damage. Among other things, hundreds of books, more than fifty pairs of shoes, hundreds of bags and many, many patches were flooded. But compared to others we were lucky since only part of our range is located in the basement and most of it is stacked on shelves and the water only stood about 15-20 cm high, whereas most basements were flooded completely. Nevertheless, this incident has caused lots and lots of extra hours and also hit us financially, since we are not insured against flooding. We can only estimate our damages at the moment, but they are quite significant. After our move all the still sellable products will be available in an extensive Sale.

Some impressions:

All the books at the bottom lay in the water and are lost. Many shoes became wet, too, even those lying further on top. The rest of our basement looks quite similar …

We saved lots of stuff in the night when the water came and put them into our store to dry. It lookey quite chaotic, our vegan store.

Luckily, some very nice people helped us, even in the night. So we yould carry everything that was wet or had to be saved from the water to our new warehouse. A big thank you to everyone who helped us!

We’d be more than happy if you’d support us with your orders soon, as we’ll have a lot coming up.
But of course there are a lot of humans and non-humans that face far more difficult circumstances. We hope to be on our feet again soon, so we can work on new projects and support others again, too!