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Dunnes Stores to be sold

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    #242
    obrien_jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭obrien_jimmy


    Well if you look at whats going on lately

    I mean ben dunne presumably doenst get on well with Margeret Heffernan since his buy out in the 90's. He's also been quoted saying even after all his advice of telling everyone in the Evening Hearld that the Dunnes snr management should be all fired and replaced he was quoted afterwards saying that he "didnt belive that his sister had an intention of selling Dunnes Stores"

    Alot of what were hearing is pointing to circumstabtial and conflicting rumors, Hell I even heard one proposing that Mandate our own union had leaked this rumor out to encourage more people to join the union coming up to x-mas.

    What I do know is that from the Dunnes I work in, is that It's quiet I mean really quiet lately buisness wise, our orders have been cut to ribbons our hours have been trimmed, I know some staff that are doing 6pm-9pm and getting 14 hour weeks which i think is below woring average. My hours have been trimmed too but not that much and even so there always calling me to come in early to get the place sorted out on my section. Our buisness hours were cut too as we only open till 10pm now weekdays

    On another note Id like to point out, alot of people that work in my Dunnes complain to varying degress about working in the place (myself included).
    all our moaning was been replaced by concern and worry for our job security when that rumor started and to an extent were all alot more on edge in the place and waiting for bad news which I hope wont come myself cuse as it stands ANYONE that has a job lately is very lucky to have it.

    Overall I think that the whole thing was a rumor that got way out of hand and I hope im right cuse preety soon ile be the only one bringing an income into my house.
    I think if dunnes has something to say they would have said it. I mean the curring of buisness and buisness hours staff and store alike are cost cutting measures that wouldnt have an effect on a buy out atall regardless so why bother doing it? Well to save money and keep the jobs they have, I think the thing ive learned about Dunnes is they hate showing weakness, if they had to lay people off then that would almost be an ultimate show of how bad its got for them.


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    #243
    francesca420
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭francesca420


    in regards to the slackening of business, i can concur with that too. hours in my store have been stripped to the minimum, the last few nights have been the quietest i've seen for a year (im nightpack) and we were told a certain amount of xmas staff were coming in but i believe that has been cut down a bit too.

    on another worrying note, whilst chatting to my boss the other night in relation to general worries about the place, her closing comment was 'sure we mightn't even have a job in january!'


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    #244
    Dooish
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭Dooish


    copacetic wrote: »
    Any of ye got actual reasons for saying the above so dismissively?

    I have a really good source that Dunnes is definitely to be sold, with the announcement likely this week or next week at the very latest. Are they wrong?


    work for asda, its not happening


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    #245
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    obrien_jimmy wrote: »
    I mean ben dunne presumably doenst get on well with Margeret Heffernan since his buy out in the 90's.

    Can you blame him?

    It mus be hard for a man in his fifties to admit that his big sister is more manly-looking than him.


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    #246
    Mark200
    Registered Users Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    obrien_jimmy wrote: »
    Well to save money and keep the jobs they have, I think the thing ive learned about Dunnes is they hate showing weakness, if they had to lay people off then that would almost be an ultimate show of how bad its got for them.

    And I think they're a private, un-limited liability company too. Which means that IF Dunnes Stores were to go into debt, the owners would be held responsible for that debt and could be forced to sell private assets to pay it off.


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    #247
    ash_18x
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭ash_18x


    michael heffernan says it wont be sold off!
    see link

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/dunnes-stores-heir-says-group--wont-be-sold-off-1558335.html


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    #248
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Yes..but then why have all clothes orders for 2009 been cancelled?


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    #249
    Dob74
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    ash_18x wrote: »
    michael heffernan says it wont be sold off!
    see link

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/dunnes-stores-heir-says-group--wont-be-sold-off-1558335.html


    Interesting article but just because he told the indo they are not selling does not mean its not true. They will deny they are selling up to the end. Even if behind the scenes they are making a move.


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    #250
    ash_18x
    Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭ash_18x


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    Yes..but then why have all clothes orders for 2009 been cancelled?


    where did you hear this?
    they just launched a new range yesterday!

    my husband is a manager in Dunnes and they have been told nothing and they are all denying it too, saying its rubbish! all the top guys including Margaret Heffernan have been in his store the past few weeks because it was just reopened!

    suppose you never know what is going to happen though, guess everyone will just have to wait and see!


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    #251
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    It was in the Sunday Business Post and a few other papers, and my managers said it's true. I'd imagine it wouldn't be made up..I'm sure the suppliers would know whether or not the orders have been cancelled. It might not have been sold/in the process of being sold, but I think something bigger is happening than 'redundancies'. Business really picked up in the last week anyway, which might stop hours being cut.


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    #252
    Mcfast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88 ✭✭Mcfast


    has it been confirmed one way or the other?


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    #253
    Hurricanes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Hurricanes


    I work in Head Office and when all of those rumours surfaced everybody was just laughing it off, as similar rumours surface every few years and nothing ever happens. No shipments have been cancelled and there are still 30,40 plus meetings with buyers and suppliers each day. It's all just a way to sell papers and keep the rumour mill going.And everybody got their Christmas bonuses!


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    #254
    JDxtra
    Registered Users Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Sorry to dig this up again... but I just saw the new Dunnes Stores adverts on TV and I have to say that the giant arrow graphic looks VERY similar to the one that Asda have used for years on their adverts.


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    #255
    JDxtra
    Registered Users Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Samples attached...


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    #256
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    linky?

    edit: "samples attached"



    edit 2: i see what you mean but at the same time, no.


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    #257
    banshee_bones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    i heard that thyre buying in clothes fom Asda.... why would they be doing that if Asda werent about to swoop in?!


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    #258
    AlmightyCushion
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    banshee_bones wrote: »
    i heard that thyre buying in clothes fom Asda.... why would they be doing that if Asda werent about to swoop in?!
    But we don't even know if they are doing it.


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    #259
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,833 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    JDxtra wrote: »
    Samples attached...
    Oh my...!

    :rolleyes:


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    #260
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    JDxtra wrote: »
    Samples attached...

    Those are just two arrows. If they didn't have that shape they wouldn't be arrows...


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    #261
    banshee_bones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,160 ✭✭✭✭banshee_bones


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    But we don't even know if they are doing it.

    but i DO know theyre doing it! Have a family member working in Dunnes!


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    #262
    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Coincidence? Yes


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    #263
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,004 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Already brought back from the dead on the Consumer Issues forum :p

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055474950


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    #264
    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,587 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Sales of down arrows have boomed since the recession kicked off. Maybe they use the same supplier? :p


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    #265
    madmik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭madmik


    please let this rumour be true

    the amount of skangers who work in dunnes is unreal

    they spend their time chewing gum,gossiping,laughing and joking around while a queue of irritated customers stands waiting to get served

    in my local dunnes they have stains on the uniforms ,massive ear rings,bad attitudes and some even downright rude
    in short theyre a bunch of tossers

    i hope walmart sacks every last one of them and sends them to the dole queue where they belong

    dunnnes emplloyees-RIP


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    #266
    obrien_jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭obrien_jimmy


    madmik wrote: »
    please let this rumour be true

    the amount of skangers who work in dunnes is unreal

    they spend their time chewing gum,gossiping,laughing and joking around while a queue of irritated customers stands waiting to get served

    in my local dunnes they have stains on the uniforms ,massive ear rings,bad attitudes and some even downright rude
    in short theyre a bunch of tossers

    i hope walmart sacks every last one of them and sends them to the dole queue where they belong

    dunnnes emplloyees-RIP

    I think you really need to re-phrase that mad milk, Agreed there are skangers working in the place. I work for the place and I break my back for the money I earn. there are alot of people who do as a matter of fact so do they deserve to go to the dole queue. ?

    I know what your saying and to a degreee I agree with you. But I think you should rephrase it in a way that doesnt mark EVERY dunnes employee as a lazy sod


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    #267
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    I see Dunnes bought all of Superquinns stock.


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    #268
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    madmik wrote: »
    please let this rumour be true

    the amount of skangers who work in dunnes is unreal
    I would disagree there.
    madmik wrote: »
    they spend their time chewing gum,gossiping,laughing and joking around while a queue of irritated customers stands waiting to get served
    I agree there. It is mostly the old biddies that do that.
    madmik wrote: »
    in short theyre a bunch of tossers
    Indeed.
    madmik wrote: »
    i hope walmart sacks every last one of them and sends them to the dole queue where they belong

    dunnnes emplloyees-RIP

    A tad strong there.


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    #269
    Deliverance XXV
    Registered Users Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭Deliverance XXV


    hellboy99 wrote: »
    I see Dunnes bought all of Superquinns stock.

    Is this official or a rumour?


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    #270
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    JDxtra wrote: »
    Sorry to dig this up again... but I just saw the new Dunnes Stores adverts on TV and I have to say that the giant arrow graphic looks VERY similar to the one that Asda have used for years on their adverts.


    Dey tuk er arrows....eh....we tuk der arrows.....my head hurts....


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    #271
    happy09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭happy09


    I would be happy to see Asda here instead of Dunnes Store. Dunnes store is a rip-off. Recently I was in London, was shopping in Asda. Got bottle of water, 2 bananas, big packets of crisp and mp3 player for 10 pounds...not bad! Forgot as well chocolate bar....

    However comes for sure they will be cheaper...


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