Monday, January 14, 2008

FSF goes to Sneaker Rehab

7 Banta Place Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 487-1459 **closed Sunday (blue law)**

Brands Carried
-Ladies: Married to the MOB, Yours Truly, Trenity,
Christian Audigier, Pastry (Coming Soon)
-Men: Mike23, Lavar, Crazy Wear, Bobby Fresh,
Christian Audigier, Gifted Elite, Hoodman, Once Upon a Time in NYC, Trenity,
5 Finger Discounters

Women's Aqua AJ8s and Trenity "Heart" tee
Yours Truly "Locked Heart" tee and AJ 11 lows
Married to the Mob "Alien" tee and Puma x Yo MTV Raps "Ed and Dre" Clydes

Why the name Sneaker Rehab?
-Alex and his friend Jamie came up with the name "Sneaker Rehab" at work in the stock room of a Champs. The name was just HOT! There was no reason behind it but we made one up. Basically Sneaker Rehab means that we help rehab your style and your pockets. Let's say a customers comes in with a wack pair of kicks we help him out and he leaves with a hot pair and for a good price. (Fellas, THEY are talking to YOU!)

How long in the biz? 9 Months

Why start a shop at such a young age?

-Charlene: I was sitting at work and was thinking "what I am going to do with my life," and then the idea hit me why not start up a sneaker business. I mean all we did was buy sneakers. Sneakers was our life. At first it was suppose to be a website only, but as we learned more about sneakers we slowly discovered that you can't get any sneaker accounts unless you have a store
front. So we found a store for a great price and we opened up. We opened the store when we were 18 so we really didn't have much money. This is when we turned to my mother. She saw the hype for sneakers and how people go crazy for them. So she invested in the business. With out her we couldn't start this business.

-Alex: My life goal was to one day own my own business and after Charlene and I sat down and talked about it everything seemed to fall in place. The location, inventory, and capital was there so I said what's the point of waiting, let's just do it. Also I was tired of working for other stores and knew that if we worked hard enough we could really be a great store to come
and shop at. I met a lot of people in the sneaker community who owned stores. So when I told them of our idea they gladly gave us advice and their help.

Where do you see the shop in 5 years?
-In 5 years we hope to have accounts with all the major sneaker companies
(Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Puma, Run Athletics, etc) and we would like to be know
as one of the hottest stores not just in New Jersey but in the United States

Shout Outs, etc
-Female Sneaker Fiend first and foremost for giving us this opportunity to let
people know about our store.
-Married to the MOB for their hot clothes and for being our first womens
account.
-Shout out to Jamie for the Sneaker Rehab name.
-Shout out to Lavar our very first Clothing account for men.
-Shout out to all our customers for supporting Sneaker Rehab.
-Shout out to Dwayne Bernard for the Sneaker Rehab logo.
-Shout out to Kayla Griffith the face of Sneaker Rehab and Mohanie Gopaul for
investing in our business.
-Shout out to Joey from Sneaker Hub for all his good business advice!


Well don't just take it from Fee (even though I am usually right ; P ). Hurry over to Sneaker Rehab and buy, talk kicks, or challenge Alex on the Wii or Super Nes!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

sneaker rehab is a really great store, great prices... luv the look. charlene and alex really know their stuff... so, if u want the best buy for your money, visit sneaker rehab... luv u guys Anna

Anonymous said...

Sneaker rehab is dope one of the hottest spots in hackensack and they only been around for 9 mos. and they are keeping up with the competition sneaker rehab is gonna be around for awhile.. what i like most about the store is that its owned by 2 young kids so they know what the streets want better than any1 else..and the store has a comfortable enviroment and welcoming atmosphere and what i mean by that is ..its like chilling in ya boys basement or something the got the couches and the nintendo wii popping and you can go to alex or charlene chill and talk about anything with them the are mad down to earth ...keep the buisness popping ya got something good going for ya maybe one day ya will become internationally knowned ....one luv DEZ ..PS and they got ne sole magazine ya want i be on the sole hard (pause) and alex always come thru