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In 2019, Steve and Melissa Quick, the husband-and-wife owners of Steve Quick Jeweler in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, decided to consolidate their three stores into a single, downsized location. Little did they know how prescient that decision would be.
“The big motivating factor was us being able to control the experience that someone has walking into our store,” Melissa (pictured) tells
JCK.
When the pandemic hit, the Quicks trimmed the store schedule from being open seven days to five. Now that the quarantines and lockdowns of 2020 are fading into memory (touch wood!), they’ve decided to stick with the five-day schedule. “I now have Sundays and Mondays off, which is really nice,” Melissa says. “I’m not working as much as I used to, but probably not working as much as I should.”