“Obviously I'm happy to know my hairdresser is unconfined!
In addition, it ensures the safety of customers!
"In full rinsing with the shampoo chair of the Loft 14 hairdressing salon, in Melun, Nadine lets her joy explode: hairdressers are excluded from the confinement measures imposed in Ile-de-France for four weeks.
Shower in hand, Jérémy Dardelay smiles under his mask.
“It's normal that we remain open.
We are vigilant, we respect the protocols ”, he assures, relieved.
Because the first two confinements made him lose "several tens of thousands of euros" despite the support of the solidarity fund of the Region and the State, as well as partial unemployment for his three employees.
So in his living room of 74 m2, able to guarantee the famous social distancing, he still invested in Plexiglass partitions between the bins, hydroalcoholic gel in quantity, bathrobes and towels washed between two customers, etc.
In the end, he does not regret this effort: “Everyone is playing the game. And since Thursday evening, we have received a lot of support messages on social networks.
It’s nice!
"
A precious extra hour for bakers
In the Paris region, bakers sell the most bread between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
So obviously this extra hour changes everything.
At the bakery and pastry shop in Crégy-lès-Meaux, you can also blast.
“The 6pm curfew caused us to lose around 20% of sales.
We have
lost a
lot of customers who cannot come home from work before 6.30 pm ”, testifies Damien Jeuland, boss of Gwastel [Editor's note: the Breton cake] which will celebrate its 6 years in June.
Losses compensated by no state aid while the charges remain due at 100%.
“Bread and also pastries were also declining because parents who pick up children after school no longer have time because of the curfew.
Same on Saturday afternoon because of the races.
Over the weekend, we lost orders for cakes, ”continues the renowned pastry chef.
Crégy-lès-Meaux, March 19, 2021. Damien and Franck (from l to r), the pastry chef and the baker at Le Gwastel bakery and pastry shop, appreciate the postponement of the start of the curfew to 7 p.m. from the 20 March.
LP / Hugues Tailliez
With an hour more, he will have time to sell the evening batches of baguettes of Franck, the baker of the house.
“Since this morning, customers have been asking us if it is good from Saturday that we close at 7 pm!
», Congratulates the boss.
"It's complicated to close with the queue on the sidewalk"
Currently, after the meridian break, the Jouy-le-Châtel bakery reopens its doors at 4 p.m.
“With school trips and then the clientele coming home from work, it's non-stop until 6 pm.
It happens that the trade exceeds the allowed schedule of about ten minutes to satisfy everyone.
“It's complicated to close at 6 pm when there is still a line on the sidewalk,” admits Aurélie Boucher, the baker.
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While she expected a new harsher confinement, she was relieved by the announcement of the postponement of the start of the curfew from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
" It's good news.
We should no longer need to run to serve our customers in two hours, ”admits the shopkeeper.
Jouy-le-Châtel, this Friday.
Aurélie Boucher (on the right), the baker, appreciates the passage of the curfew from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
LP / Sébastien Blondé
Booksellers think of their colleagues who must close
Booksellers have joined the list of so-called essential shops and can remain open in the event of confinement, according to a decree published at the end of February 2021 in the Official Journal.
At the 2nd confinement, last fall, booksellers were authorized to sell on their doorstep books reserved by click & collect customers.
This time, these cultural shops remain open almost normally.
At the beginning of November, while its direct competitor, Fnac, had remained open, Grégory Brossard, the boss of L'Escalier, Melun's last independent bookstore, had not hidden his anger.
“We are free to open quietly.
We will not have to wait for the customer behind the iron curtain, ”he confides while thinking of traders forced to close.
“All downtown businesses have made efforts to set up health protocols,” he emphasizes.
It is not with us that there is brewing.
Most clients stay for less than ten minutes.
"
"People have rediscovered the pleasure of reading"
“We undergo, we adapt piecemeal.
In a year, this is the fourth or fifth time that I have changed my schedules.
There we have one more hour.
It's good for customers who will be able to take their time more and I will have more to manage the store, ”says Max Buvry, founder of the Vaux Livres bookstore in Vaux-le-Pénil.
He too has a thought for the "colleagues" who cannot open the door.
“It’s a form of injustice for them and it’s not easy for us.
We want them also to be able to remain open, ”pleads Céline Ferré, owner of the Librairie Café in Crécy-la-Chapelle.
For the rest, the bookseller is delighted that this time book stores are considered essential businesses.
" It's nice !
But when we saw that a decree placed us as essential businesses, we approached confinement with more serenity.
"The manager believes that the year 2020, from an accounting point of view, was" special "since despite three imposed months of closure, the business recorded the same turnover as the year 2019." C ' is quite unexpected.
People have rediscovered the pleasure of reading.
It has been beneficial to us.
It remains to be seen whether this will last over time.
"