“It brings the social bond that we had lost”: in a village in the Vosges, the community grocery store does good

2024-01-05 09:24:40

Lydie, 88, is behind the counter once or twice a week. “I live alone at home, so here I see people and it passes my time. I get frustrated when I’m not on schedule. » This octogenarian is one of the twenty volunteers who set up a community grocery project in Grandvillers (Vosges) in 2019. At the time, the last bakery in the village had burned down and the owner did not want to resume its activity.

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“We talked regarding it among friends and we distributed questionnaires to residents to ask them their opinion on an association business. We had a hundred positive feedbacks so we got started! » explains Catherine Strubhardt, president of the La Grantèle association. This daughter of a grocers knows the ropes of the business, but there was no question of her starting out alone. “I wanted the pleasure of being of service without the constraints. The associative model has imposed itself. »

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