November 9th, after much turmoil we are finally open! Midwest Triple X is located at 207 Washington Ave. North in Minneapolis. We are 1/2 block west of Sexworld on the Northeast corner of 2nd and Washington. We love Minneapolis!

We believe we are the only 100% employee owned (Co-Op?!) in Minnesota, possibly the US. If anyone has and info for us on this let us know!

Anyways, long road to get here. The owner of the former shop in this location (Robert Weisberg) was the guy who drove Shinders into the ground. We were actually employees of his at one point. The owners of Midwest Triple X worked at Adult Only Superstore.  Needless to say we ran into some hard times and issues in regards to the former store (mainly with payroll disappearing etc.) We all walked out due to lack of pay, once the former owner and store were evicted we picked the lease back up, remodeled (fluorescent lights suck!), restocked, and decided to go an entirely different direction.

We realized that most shops around here relied off flashy lights, high price points (even for mostly used product), free popcorn, and a churning customer base to stay open. We run off the BASIC principles that there is NEVER a need to do business at the expense of your customers or employees. After all, customers and employees are the biggest asset to a business! There is a right way and a wrong way to do things, and we are here to do things right!

Our shop specializes in straight, gay, and everything in between in terms of both Toys, DVD’s, and other goods. We do alot of work with local artisians and the community to offer the best Minnesota crafted goods, at the best possible price. We also will special order hard to find DVD’s, and do it no money down! We love custom orders as well on leather, suede, paddles, floggers, and sex machines! If your serious about play, you have a home here! Anyone who tells you that you can’t stimulate the economy by stimulating yourself is full of it!

Shinders and AOS provided a great service, and will be missed by anyone who has bought porno or pogs from em. Thank you to Matt McKinney with the star Tribune for providing such great coverage of the Shinder’s last run debacle. To Joel Shinder, thank you for the 91-3 years of services your store provided, we’re sorry that your family’s legacy was screwed over by a couple of bad seeds.