Schulranzen in Munich

I have had Schulranzen given to me, bought them online and in person. With my last child I tried Southbag Megastore (which I think has switched names since I was there?). The service was ok. Lots of young girls working in a large warehouse style store, but no real individual help that I had heard so much about. I was told by several of them, "Just let the child chose". I am ok with that, but I had heard for so many years, "The child must be properly fitted for his schulranzen...." (I am still not drinking the Kool Aid). There are so many ugly designs or designs that I can see a current 5/6 yr old disliking or outgrowing by next year, let alone in 4th grade... I did not want to leave the decision completely up to my child.

On one of my many trips to Schön Clinic this year, the Schulranzen.com Fachcenter München Giesing caught my eye. Last week while after a doctor appointment in Haar, I stopped at a Paper store because they had Schulranzen in the window. I asked for a fire department Schulranzen, because that is what my child wanted. (Specifically, he wanted the exact same matching bag to his kindergarten Scouty bag)

The woman working told me that none of those actually belonged to her store, but actually belonged to Schulranzen.com. She described the directions to me and a light bulb went off, connecting her words to the place I had seen. She also mentioned that Friday June 2, 2017 was their one year anniversary and they were having a small party.

I took 2 of my children with me to the store. I was immediately greeted with "Grüß Gott".  The staff were kind and helpful. The woman helped to adjust the straps on each of the bags I gently suggested to my child. She, unfortunately did not have any fire department bags (which BTW I can only find one decent one from Scout on amazon)

image from amazon.de

Luckily, my child went directly to my top pick bag, the Ergo bag. The Ergo bag is great in my opinion, is that the colors aren't the hideous blue orange that other brands seem to keep as their mainstay. They have pleasing colors and designs that don't seem easily outgrown. The Ergobag has "kletties"which are velcro pictures/patches for the bags. They offered a fire one for my son! He was happy, I was happy.

Then he saw that the bags from School Mood offer bigger "patchies"(same thing as a klettie). His favorite quickly changed from Ergobag to School Mood. I was not a fan of the colors of the School Mood. I tried to get him to go back to Ergobag.... No going back. He wanted the blue blocked bag with the fire department patchies. Eventually I came around to the idea of the School Mood because it had a zipper opening instead of the flip open lid that most Schulranzen have.

After we decided on the one from School Mood, the sales woman took a picture of my son with his new big kid school bag and printed it on a certificate! Then the kids were allowed to spin the "Glücksrad". One child won a t-shirt from Burton and the other won another patchy!

As we were paying, the sales people let us know that we could register our School Mood bag online for added warranty, an extra set of pencils after two years and a free prize! 

Next time I need a Schulranzen, I will definitely go back here. The selection is not as big as other places, but it is more convenient for me to get there and to get around at that store.