Carmen Moscoso Arizcuren She is a 60-year-old woman, who has always been from Pamplona, and who is looking to move her store, where she will work for four years in the Rochapea district.
This is the Isabelle Merceriewhich is in the Marcelo Celayeta Avenue 28. Very close to other establishments that we met in this local business section. As is the case, for example, of the fruit shop where Ignacio Lacuey does not want to retire at 73, or of Sesma fishmonger where two brothers and a cousin work.
Carmen Moscoso explains the reason for the transfer of her store: “It is with great sadness that I have to leave him for health reasons. I had a serious illness two years ago. “I was absent for eleven months, without any bad luck, as I had only been in business a year and a half.”
“It’s now four years since I took over the store because the previous owner Kontxesi San Juan has retired.” The haberdashery has been open for about 60 years “since these houses were built when Isabel opened it and the name is kept in her honor.”
His initial intention “was to continue here, finish my period of work and retire, but with the misfortune that the illness happened to me a year and a half after taking over the store. I had operations, chemo… I managed well.” well and it seems that things are going well, but There are after-effects from the chemo and I am told that I need to take care of myself.
“It makes me very sad because this store was my life. My dream was to have my own company because I have worked in different companies all my life, although I am an administrator. This opportunity came to me and I said that I was retiring here. It makes me very sad to have to leave it,” says Carmen Moscoso.
Regarding the transfer of the store, “I have not set a deadline. My idea is to hand over the haberdashery to someone else who will continue this trade. It all depends on my health and my tests. “I’ll try to be there as much as possible, I can even help the person who replaces me for a while, a few hours.”
This is one of the last haberdasheries in the Rochapea district: “There is another one nearby but it doesn’t have the assortment I have here. People come to buy in Buztintxuri, in Artica… and they call me by phone to find out where my store is.”
Customers understand their situation: “They tell me I come first and they understand it.. I hope to be able to leave it in other hands. This haberdashery is a reference in the neighborhood. “Second generations continue to arrive despite the Internet and they value humane treatment.”
“We are also psychologists because they tell you their problems. I am very grateful and very happy with the people in the neighborhood, And I live outside Rochapea.” There is no relief for the family either: “They have their studies and their work and they don’t want to continue. I have two children aged 28 and 24, a boy and a girl, and that doesn’t appeal to them,” concludes Carmen Moscoso.
