Shared Earth

Cool shop lots of handmade and fair trade items!
Mar 26th, 2023

Absolutely my favourite shop of all time, merchandise is amazing, different, just love the insense, coloured bowls, i could go on just wish there was more of them.
Nov 22nd, 2022

Nov 6th, 2022

Good range of products but really quite a strong unpleasant smell inside the shop.
Oct 22nd, 2022

The York branch is one of our all time favourite shops, so my partner and I were very excited to visit the one in Liverpool. However, the two members of staff in there yesterday were really unpleasant and Im still not sure what the issue was. We had a loyalty card with two stamps left to fill and presented it at the till alongside our purchases, which were roughly 26 quid altogether. You get a stamp each fiver you spend, ergo we thought this meant we would fill up the last two stamps and then use the card to get a fiver off. On presentation of the card the woman behind the till sighed and looked at another member of staff who was re-stocking items at the front of the desk and said you do one favour and they always ask for more. Im not sure how allowing us to buy products from the shop is doing us a favour? We joked that we could leave and then come back in so it would be two separate transactions and she snapped do you just want to pick which things you want off so I took off two items that came to five pounds. So by now being extremely uncomfortable and feeling like wed done something wrong we paid and left, and then on inspection of the receipt outside we realised shed charged twice for one item. So excruciatingly we had to return inside which she was visibly annoyed at and then blamed her mistake on us because of the whole discussion of said loyalty card- Ill just have to give it you in cash she snapped. As I said, we visited the York store many times and have spent a lot of money there, and have never had an issue with and have always been encouraged to use the cards. I am not sure why all items could not be added to the till and then five pounds taken off at the end. The woman said that in a coffee shop you cant use cards like that, so its the same there. As a person who visits coffee shops regularly and has been a barista for four years I know from experience that this is not true. If you have a loyalty card with one stamp left and you buy two coffees you only pay for one because you get a stamp for the first coffee that you pay for, then you can pay for the other coffee with the card, what a treat! The experience soured the Liverpool visit, maybe the staff are unhappy or were having a particularly bad day, but we did not do anything to warrant being spoken to so unpleasantly. The other shops on Bold Street were rammed but this store was empty, so I think that in itself speaks volumes. We wont visit again which saddened us. Better off going to The Hippy Hole next time I guess.
Aug 11th, 2022