Jacqueline and André Dubosq announce the closure of their business

After fifteen years and a month at the head of the Vierville grocery-bar-tobacco store, Jacqueline and André Dubosq announced a final opening the following Saturday, before their retirement. Their business had been on sale for several months without having found a buyer.

A former employee of the sugar industry in Cagny, André had followed Jacqueline, owner of the fund, when she had settled in Vierville. In front of the almost empty shelves, he expressed his bitterness about the future of local commerce. He associated the aging of the village, the closure of the school and the departure of the parish priest with a succession of disappeared businesses, while comparing this situation to the two hotels opened in three years in Saint-Laurent.

However, the couple had enlarged the bar three times and added a deposit of bread. André proudly showed the path traveled since the original simple refreshment bar. He acknowledged that tourists kept the establishment alive in the summer, but regretted that in winter the inhabitants prefer the supermarkets of Bayeux and only resort to the store to help themselves. He said he lacked support and policy of openness; these appreciations are his.

The newspaper depot was to be provisionally taken over by the La Pie qui Tête hotel, whose owner Monique Veyrat appeared in a photograph. If the business is sold, newspapers could return to it. The future of tobacco depended, André said, on the tax administration.

The spouses did not want to spend their retirement in Vierville, but were still waiting for a possible sale. The report highlighted the void left by this local trade and the disappearance of places of exchange that had long supported the social life of the villages.

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