The jewelry store fains firm after 70 years of presence
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La bijouterie Fives Carillon est présente à Lille depuis 70 ans. Tenue par deux générations, elle fermera malheureusement ses portes définitivement le 31 mars 2021. Christian et Sylvie Sis n’ont pas trouvé de repreneur. En attendant leur retraite, ils vous accueillent toujours avec le sourire !
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This is always bad news for a neighborhood to lose an independent business, especially when it has been established for a long time.
Fives Carillon, in the Lille Fives district, was created by the family located in 1951."The store was at 179 rue Pierre Legrand at the time.We were first specialized in clocks and chips, the jewelry part came after, "says Christian Sis.
To the rhythm of a neighborhood
He resumed in 1983, with his wife Sylvie, the trade created by his father.The store has moved a few meters away, at 155 on the same street.
For almost 40 years, the couple lived to the rhythm of the neighborhood."There was everything at Fives before!"You could dress there, find something to plant a nail, buy your wedding outfit, their baptismal dragees ... ", recalls the couple Sis.
Among the anecdotes, the couple remembers this bracelet to engrave "I love you forever", that it was necessary to degrade 15 days later.
A "Bijou savings"
Or the way people save to buy a jewel at home."People gave us money little by little.For example, a certain sum per month.After a few months, we came to choose our jewelry with this ‘savings’.There was real confidence!»Underlines Sylvie Sis.
A passing client to have his chime repaired: "I chose the jewel I wanted, I was put it aside, and regularly, I came to drop money, until I reached thesum !»»
Has the health crisis impacted their store?"Closed during confinement, we had a lot of purchase of alliances between May and July 2020, people had postponed their marriage but wanted to get married.But after summer, sales of alliances and baptism medals almost stopped ... "Note Sylvie Sis.
The reasons for the closure
Why does the store close?Because arriving at retirement time, the couple did not find a buyer, simply.
The closure of Fives Carillon in Lille-Fives arrives in a context where many independent jewelry stores put the key under the door.For what ?The fault of jewelry stores of supermarkets, on the Internet too.The times have changed."Modernism killed the old ..." said Sylvie Sis.
Also, the fact that there is less diversity of businesses, with a lot of food, has dropped frequentation.Fewer people means fewer customers.
Owner of the building, SIS have not yet decided what they would do with it, they think they have been selling but have not yet found a buyer.
Have your jewelry and clocks repaired
While waiting for the final closure, the store remains open and there is a passage!The jewelry store offers its stock at least 50%, but in fact, there is a tenth of everything that the store offered.You can nevertheless still find rings and medals, from a few euros to several thousand euros.Watches bracelets are also still available.Bracelets, necklaces, earrings are counted on the fingers of the hand.
Customers still come for a precious thing: repairs.Because the store has an internal workshop."Today, it's hard to find a place to have your jewelry repaired.We do everything, from repairing costume jewelry to the most sophisticated.Above all, we have a specialty: Cairons and clocks!", Details the manager.
Thus, the clocks and cars of all sizes and eras (until 1850!), The wooden hello included, still arrive in number among SIS.Because after the closure of Fives Carillon, owners of this kind of objects will find it difficult to find another place of repair.
Magasin au 155 rue Pierre Legrandà Lille-Fives. Ouvert du mardi au samedi de 9 h à 12 h 15 et de 14 h à 18 h. Fermeture définitive le 31 mars 2021. Prix préférenciels.
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