Dear customers and partners,<\/p>\n
When I decided to launch my own business in 2007 and create the community eyewear store concept, I had two main objectives.<\/p>\n
The first was accessibility. After working in various offices in the Montreal area, I had come to the conclusion that for far too many people, purchasing \n eyewear had become a luxury, or at the very least, required major sacrifices. Worse still, many people were putting off buying glasses indefinitely because they simply couldn't make it work budget-wise. As an optician, knowing that people were depriving themselves of good vision for budgetary reasons seemed like nonsense. So I based my business model on accessibility, and fifteen years later, I think I can say \u00abmission accomplished\u00bb: we now have more than 70 service points<\/a> and we never raised our base prices since 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n The second was to serve as a funding tool for community organizations, who are too often overlooked despite the vital role they play in our society, particularly during inflation periods<\/a> or economic crises. For several years now, our approach has been simple: every quarter, our team makes the rounds to hand out cheques to our partners. December is the fourth and final tour of the year. It's now time to take stock.<\/p>\n I am therefore able to announce that we gave back a total of $145 000 <\/strong>to our partners in 2023. This is a record, thanks in part to an exceptional media coverage.<\/a><\/p>\n I'd like to thank all our customers who continue to spread the word about us. Special thanks to our community partners<\/a> who are more numerous than ever to welcome us on a regular basis. I would like to also thank the Bonhomme team, also bigger than ever, who helps make a difference not only in people's lives, but for community organizations across Qu\u00e9bec as well.<\/p>\n I wish you all Happy Holidays and and see you in 2024!<\/p>\n Philippe Rochette<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chers clients et partenaires, Quand j\u2019ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de me lancer en affaires en 2007 et de cr\u00e9er le concept de lunetterie communautaire, j\u2019avais deux objectifs principaux en t\u00eate. Le premier concernait l\u2019accessibilit\u00e9. Apr\u00e8s avoir travaill\u00e9 dans diff\u00e9rents bureaux de la r\u00e9gion de Montr\u00e9al, j\u2019en \u00e9tais venu \u00e0 la conclusion que pour beaucoup trop de gens,… Read More »A record sum for community organizations in 2023<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-message-boss","tag-partenaires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonhommealunettes.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}