The former shops

Located on the Route de Clères, opposite the town hall, a grocery store, pizzeria, and bar stands as the only remaining business in Mont-Cauvaire today.

In the very early 1900s, Marie Neveu ran the grocery-café. In 1929, Mr. and Mrs. André Leboucher became the new managers, eventually purchasing the premises in 1936. Their son Pierre and his wife took over from 1962 until their retirement in 2000. The business has continued to operate to this day.

On the same street, at the edge of the village (41 Route de Clères), there was a bar at the end of the 20th century with a boules pitch located across the road. It is now a private residence.

The last butcher's shop, which closed in 2013, was located in a former parsonage opposite Raimbourg Farm. Sold in 1827, this former parsonage became a café-grocery and then a butcher's shop after the Second World War (see the panel regarding the former parsonage). In 1979, Mr. and Mrs. Lefebvre acquired the establishment. Bernard Lefebvre made rounds through the surrounding villages, while his wife, Catherine, served in the shop. The couple retired in 2013, and the business was not taken over.

A bakery located on the Route de Clères served the inhabitants until around 1985; it has since been converted into a private home.

Numerous artisans once practiced their trades in the commune. In 1841, records show nine male and female weavers. This home-based activity, usually practiced by peasants, provided supplementary income for those with little land to farm. Over various periods, the village saw a succession of tailors, seamstresses, washerwomen, thatch roofers, plasterers, masons, carpenters, joiners, carters, wheelwrights, shoemakers, blacksmiths, lumberjacks, scrap metal dealers, glaziers, and rabbit skin sellers.

In the hamlet of Grand-Tendos, a watercress farm was once in operation, though it is now abandoned.

In the mid-20th century, there were approximately 25 farms in the commune. Today, only two working farms remain.