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Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    Clondalkin gets my vote then.

    The things I've seen their bakery section do to a pecan slice... the horror.

    Additionally, they own the entire shopping center and almost exclusively lease out spaces to card shops, further adding to the air of general pointlessness about the place.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I definitely don't find Lidl or Aldi as depressing - they're at least kept to a reasonable standard of cleanliness. And I don't think Tesco are quite as awful to work for, judging by the general demeanour of their staff.

    I've never worked for Dunnes, but I've never known anybody to last there longer than three months without crying at work at least once. I have terrific sympathy for the staff, but the managers seem to be completely psychotic and I think it's definitely reflected in the standard of the place.

    Working there was hell. You were treated like crap and managers would take any opportunity to berate you. Now the junior/trainee managers were fine, it was the ones who ran the departments and overall store who were the issue.

    I worked from 2 pm December 23rd to well after 2am December 24th and was supposed to be back in at 8am. The manager who was with us told me that I was entitled to a certain length of time between shifts and not to come in at 8am. Instead I was to start at 12. I got in at 11 thinking that i was doing them a fabor but was instantly sent to the head manager who spent 5minutes screaming at me for not being there at 8.

    Thinking back I can't name one girl I worked with who wasn't reduced to tears at least once and I know one of the trainee managers had a break down over the way she was treated. She told me that from the start of the day till the end it was nothing but constant abuse and that no matter how good the job was done fault would be found.

    A few friends have worked in Tesco and they really can't say a bad word about the place. The managers treat them with respect and they are allowed to be themselves to a degree.

    On my second day in Dunnes, I was given a warning due to my piercings and hair cut. When I was hired I had my mohawk and piercings on display in the interview and not a single word was said about them to me. I wore the Mohawk down in work and on the first day all was good, wasn't till the second day that it was an issue, a manager said I looked like a good for nothing punk. In Tesco my friend has wore his piercings and hair bleached a dozen colours over the years and not once has a manager said anything about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Orneau Road, Belfast or the one on Cardiffsbridge Road in Finglas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Working there was hell. You were treated like crap and managers would take any opportunity to berate you. Now the junior/trainee managers were fine, it was the ones who ran the departments and overall store who were the issue.

    I worked from 2 pm December 23rd to well after 2am December 24th and was supposed to be back in at 8am. The manager who was with us told me that I was entitled to a certain length of time between shifts and not to come in at 8am. Instead I was to start at 12. I got in at 11 thinking that i was doing them a fabor but was instantly sent to the head manager who spent 5minutes screaming at me for not being there at 8.

    Thinking back I can't name one girl I worked with who wasn't reduced to tears at least once and I know one of the trainee managers had a break down over the way she was treated. She told me that from the start of the day till the end it was nothing but constant abuse and that no matter how good the job was done fault would be found.

    A few friends have worked in Tesco and they really can't say a bad word about the place. The managers treat them with respect and they are allowed to be themselves to a degree.

    On my second day in Dunnes, I was given a warning due to my piercings and hair cut. When I was hired I had my mohawk and piercings on display in the interview and not a single word was said about them to me. I wore the Mohawk down in work and on the first day all was good, wasn't till the second day that it was an issue, a manager said I looked like a good for nothing punk. In Tesco my friend has wore his piercings and hair bleached a dozen colours over the years and not once has a manager said anything about it.

    Jesus.

    Yeah, that sounds about right. My sister, for instance, got a written warning on the first day for failing to have a "work pen".

    I get the impression it comes down to managers getting as far as "Manager" and then staying there for the rest of their career. They all seem to go a little bit mad and deal with it by obsessing over crazy little details and abusing what power they have over the people around them. It's the one thing I've heard from everybody I've ever known to work for them, that each and every one of the managers is deranged.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    i havent been in many dunnes but recently, the merchants quay store in cork has become very sad, mainly because the newly redeveloped patrick street is so nice.

    Im not in ireland these days so if someones says the merchants quay location has closed down, i wouldnt be surprised.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,888 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Dunnes all have a very generic, samey look about them - like a cheaper and tackier version of M&S. The St. Stephens Green and Cornelscourt ones are fine but some of their smaller stores are looking the worse for wear.

    One thing that is not in dispute is how badly Dunnes treat their staff. This is well known. Anyone I know who has ever worked in Dunnes stores said it was hell with rampant bullying and abuse from management. I'm actually a bit surprised that there hasn't been a Prime Time feature on how badly Dunnes treat their staff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    One thing that is not in dispute is how badly Dunnes treat their staff. This is well known. Anyone I know who has ever worked in Dunnes stores said it was hell with rampant bullying and abuse from management. I'm actually a bit surprised that there hasn't been a Prime Time feature on how badly Dunnes treat their staff.

    I've wondered if they get a pass because nobody wants to be seen as rounding on an Irish company - all their foreign competitors have far better reputations as employers, including the big discount chains.


  • Registered Users Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Zemuppet


    Working there was hell. You were treated like crap and managers would take any opportunity to berate you. Now the junior/trainee managers were fine, it was the ones who ran the departments and overall store who were the issue.

    I worked from 2 pm December 23rd to well after 2am December 24th and was supposed to be back in at 8am. The manager who was with us told me that I was entitled to a certain length of time between shifts and not to come in at 8am. Instead I was to start at 12. I got in at 11 thinking that i was doing them a fabor but was instantly sent to the head manager who spent 5minutes screaming at me for not being there at 8.

    I've worked there for 6 years myself and i have found 90% of management sound and workable with yet its that 10% that have a massive ego and power issues that affect staff, other managers and outside reps. Bad staff/management need to be disciplined or let go but if someone is doing their job then that person should not be mocked or belittled.

    Had one horrible manager last year who mocked a staff member's OH in front of him and other staff. The fella reported the manager to HR, then the next day the manager sends the staff member up to HR, saying HR wanted an apology for wasting her time. Anyway the fella goes up and finds out that HR said nothing and that prat manager had lied to him. Manager gets a slap on the wrist in the end.

    It really is that one member of management that fcuks up everybody else's day when the rest are good folk and workable. I was a staff member not a manager (That said sp to not create bias towards one side or the other)

    Lastly on the point of you working from 2-2 and then rostered back in at 8, Dunnes should have told you that there is an 11 hour rest period between shifts, so that git broke the rules and maybe the law if someone can provide info.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    Parkway Limerick. The store itself isn't too bad it's just the intimidation in the air at times up there. Also nearly every teenage girl walking around there is either pregnant or dragging a child around. Such a lovely area. The one up Childers road is fine though.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27 Lighter


    Has to be westside in galway


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Zemuppet wrote: »
    Working there was hell. You were treated like crap and managers would take any opportunity to berate you. Now the junior/trainee managers were fine, it was the ones who ran the departments and overall store who were the issue.

    I worked from 2 pm December 23rd to well after 2am December 24th and was supposed to be back in at 8am. The manager who was with us told me that I was entitled to a certain length of time between shifts and not to come in at 8am. Instead I was to start at 12. I got in at 11 thinking that i was doing them a fabor but was instantly sent to the head manager who spent 5minutes screaming at me for not being there at 8.

    I've worked there for 6 years myself and i have found 90% of management sound and workable with yet its that 10% that have a massive ego and power issues that affect staff, other managers and outside reps. Bad staff/management need to be disciplined or let go but if someone is doing their job then that person should not be mocked or belittled.

    Had one horrible manager last year who mocked a staff member's OH in front of him and other staff. The fella reported the manager to HR, then the next day the manager sends the staff member up to HR, saying HR wanted an apology for wasting her time. Anyway the fella goes up and finds out that HR said nothing and that prat manager had lied to him. Manager gets a slap on the wrist in the end.

    It really is that one member of management that fcuks up everybody else's day when the rest are good folk and workable. I was a staff member not a manager (That said sp to not create bias towards one side or the other)

    Lastly on the point of you working from 2-2 and then rostered back in at 8, Dunnes should have told you that there is an 11 hour rest period between shifts, so that git broke the rules and maybe the law if someone can provide info.

    I knew I was entitled to an 11 hour break, was only rostered till 12 but with the day that was in it, it was a lot later when I left. I knew i was in the right and I made a complaint about it but it went nowhere. I actually made a few complaints in my time there but they seemed to fall on deaf ears.


  • Registered Users Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Zemuppet


    I knew I was entitled to an 11 hour break, was only rostered till 12 but with the day that was in it, it was a lot later when I left. I knew i was in the right and I made a complaint about it but it went nowhere. I actually made a few complaints in my time there but they seemed to fall on deaf ears.

    In that place most complaints usually do


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Jesus.

    Yeah, that sounds about right. My sister, for instance, got a written warning on the first day for failing to have a "work pen".

    I get the impression it comes down to managers getting as far as "Manager" and then staying there for the rest of their career. They all seem to go a little bit mad and deal with it by obsessing over crazy little details and abusing what power they have over the people around them. It's the one thing I've heard from everybody I've ever known to work for them, that each and every one of the managers is deranged.

    Peter principle is very true in retail tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    charlemont wrote: »
    Ballyvolane Cork.

    Whaaaat??! Ballyvolane Dunnes RULES!:D It never closed even after Blackpool Dunnes opened - thought that would have been the end of it but no, still going strong!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    North main street, cork. Like stepping back in time to the mid 80s. Staff are always more concerned with chatting to each other at the tills than scanning your items. Drives me mad.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    I never found Dunness to be particularly depressing, compared to the gaudy awfulness, and deliberate cheapness of Tesco. Food quality is better in Dunnes, and I don't buy clothes there as I'm not a complete pov.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭Ranelite


    Rathmines, the Irish check-out staff - especially self-service overseers - are rude, incompetent and joyless. Doesn't help when you have Adolf Hitler lookalike in charge roaming the aisles.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Caraville wrote: »
    Is the Tesco in that crappy little shopping centre in Roscrea closed since the big new Tesco opened? That was without doubt THE most depressing supermarket in Ireland.

    Although to be fair, Roscrea in general is depressing so it just fitted in with the general air of the place. As someone described to me before, Roscrea is both figuratively and literally a hole- all roads out of it go uphill.

    Yes Tesco in the centre has closed since the new development opened.

    Thanks for running down our town on a public forum. This place has being hit a hammer blow since the recession not that boom ever benefited it in the first place. Our golden period during the 70s and 80s was killed by a bunch of under qualified morons who destroyed the Antigen Pharmaceutical company, a homegrown multinational that shut its doors in profit due to criminal negligence from three westerners who I won't name.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭mongdesade


    Dunnes Nenagh


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    The constant, arhythmically blinky flourescent lights?

    Sorry, can't be everywhere at once :o

    Anyway, I'd vote for that tiny clothes-only one that used to be at the top of Grafton St. There's a fairly terrible one in Nutgrove too.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭ciarang85


    the one off wine street in sligo is a fúcken dump:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Tayla



    The Dunnes in Enniscorthy before they opened the new one.

    I hope someone else remembers that... The one in St.Stephen's green was like Harrod's food hall compared to this horror of a grocery section.

    I remember it, it was the most claustrophobic shop ever, you could barely get a basket down the aisle let alone a trolley,
    Kevski wrote: »
    Dunnes in Crumlin Shopping Centre is a fairly depressing spot.

    *shudders*
    skinny90 wrote: »
    Does anyone not think that lidl is well very boring and bland,no music or noise at all,don't get me wrong I go there on a weekly basis for certain foods but I find the staff very depressed/unmotivative.i know I'd crack up working there

    It is, has such a strange atmosphere, really dreary, Aldi is much better.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭Ammonite


    nibtrix wrote: »
    This one! Does it still have the grocery, chilled section, offie and fruit&veg section in different parts of the shopping centre, with different tills in each one so you have to queue and pay four times to do one weekly shop?

    I agree with this. It's one seriously weird set up. That whole centre is an utter disgrace and should be knocked, I'm interested to know if there's a more dated shopping centre in Ireland. It's hard to believe the Crumlin SC even still exists in 2012.

    I don't like the Dunnes in Rathmines either, doesn't come close to the horrors of Crumlin but anytime I've gone in I haven't been impressed with the freshness of the fruit and vegetables or the overall feel of the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Sorry, can't be everywhere at once :o

    Anyway, I'd vote for that tiny clothes-only one that used to be at the top of Grafton St. There's a fairly terrible one in Nutgrove too.


    It's still there. It closed for a year and then reopened. It's still getting killed by Stephen's green though..


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Is the one in the Ilac centre still open? Mind you that whole place is depressing.:(

    Oh that one in the corner in Ilac is depressing as fcuk. Dunno why it's still there since there's a much nicer one a couple of metres away.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    The one in Nutgrove is awful alright.

    The one here in Arklow in the Bridgewater Centre is ok, but that's because it's new. I don't see it aging well.

    Aldi is much better, the staff in the local one here are quite chipper and friendly, even the *Eastern Europeans on the check out are friendly and say hello. I sometimes get a "hello madam" from some of the male checkout staff, which is something I usually only ever get in shops in the U.K. :)


    *Eastern Europeans-nothing against them, they just don't generally do the whole smiling and saying hello thing much I find. Or at least not my neighbours anyway.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The Drogheda Dunnes stores, West street (there is another in a place called Scotch Hall, HUGE difference!).
    They spent a fortune doing up the front of it from this:
    * http://www.csa-architects.ie/home_nav_2_c_4_p_40.html
    To this:
    * http://www.csa-architects.ie/home_nav_2_c_4_p_40_i_2.html

    Yet never bothered with the inside where the tills are REALLY on top of each other.
    You can just about fit between each one and there is rows of till across, which behind each one, has another two!
    (So if your on the third - or second - till from the back and trying to get out with your shopping, somehow you have to squeeze by not one but two others already in front of you at their tills with all their stuff and trolly!)

    Then there is the shopping aisles themselves. They are just as narrow, within a few feet of each other from one side to the other in each aisle. The flooring is ancient looking and in places in a desperate condition, everyone is squashed going around it. They have the shop layed out that there is actually pillars in the middle of the thin isles just to make things even more fun to try adventure around. The place (very old building, never done up inside) during the day is constantly dirty and smells not in a good way.
    In total, its a total fcuk-up, a true total squashed cattle market of a place.

    ...But hey, the front looks nice!

    Walked into it many a time just to see if they had changed anything inside - saw it was still the same cramped dump and walked out again, across the road to a rival.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    ziggy23 wrote: »
    Oh that one in the corner in Ilac is depressing as fcuk. Dunno why it's still there since there's a much nicer one a couple of metres away.

    Nah there's another one in the Ilac even more depressing than what you're talking about..the clothes one? This one is further down, it has a supermarket, homewares and timepiece. But maybe it has finally closed down. Stpid amount of dunnes in town, at one point there was 8.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Pwindedd


    79 posts and no-ones mentioned Dunnes at Northside Shopping Centre Coolock...shocking !!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭Archeron


    anyone remember the downstairs in the old dunnes on north earl street? it looked like a nazi bomb shelter

    And there was always a mum with kids struggling to get a pushchair, three kids and 200 bags of shopping up that ominous seventy step staircase. I earned a lifetime of karma points helping people get their stuff up that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 440 ✭✭nicechick!


    There stores are well merchainsed, clean, usually good choice range and the quality is good basically it does what it says on the tin so to speak HOWEVER there Customer Service is appalling!! I have without fail cannot help but notice the staff seem to be sullen, withdrawn, rude & unhelpful! The driver in this is in my opinion down to lack of skill set/people management skills! Management are easily recognized from the sales assistant grouped together, clip boards at the ready but god help you if you approach them unhelpful.

    Without fail I have never enjoyed my experience there in any of there which in turn makes me avoid them! Having worked and lived all over the country I have been to an unlimited number of there stores at this stage! Although one compliment Dunness Stores in Bishopstown Cork if ever I had a good experience it was there though that was at least five years ago now!

    I couldn't tell you if there is a worst or best but in my view there evident lack of customer service must drive sales away. I tend to avoid Dunness and would want to be extremely stuck if I were to shop there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭ziggy23


    Nah there's another one in the Ilac even more depressing than what you're talking about..the clothes one? This one is further down, it has a supermarket, homewares and timepiece. But maybe it has finally closed down. Stpid amount of dunnes in town, at one point there was 8.

    Yea that's gone now thank god but they've replaced it with an equally depressing tacky shop:rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Newbridge


  • Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭FinnLizzy


    ciarang85 wrote: »
    the one off wine street in sligo is a fúcken dump:pac:

    Agreed, the men's wear is pretty much in a shed


  • Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Chain_reaction


    Ranelite wrote: »
    Rathmines, the Irish check-out staff - especially self-service overseers - are rude, incompetent and joyless. Doesn't help when you have Adolf Hitler lookalike in charge roaming the aisles.

    What do you expect when the staff are treated like they are?

    Never heard a good word from anyone who has worked for them and comments by former staff in this thread also adding fuel to the fire.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Athlone town centre is pretty awful too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    douglas, cork.

    Douglas in general is a **** hole, this place adds to it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Realtine


    [QUOTE=. And the one in Clondalkin.[/QUOTE]

    What? The mill?

    This is a grand Dunnes ....it's huge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    nicechick! wrote: »
    There stores are well merchainsed, clean, usually good choice range and the quality is good basically it does what it says on the tin so to speak HOWEVER there Customer Service is appalling!! I have without fail cannot help but notice the staff seem to be sullen, withdrawn, rude & unhelpful! The driver in this is in my opinion down to lack of skill set/people management skills! Management are easily recognized from the sales assistant grouped together, clip boards at the ready but god help you if you approach them unhelpful.

    Without fail I have never enjoyed my experience there in any of there which in turn makes me avoid them! Having worked and lived all over the country I have been to an unlimited number of there stores at this stage! Although one compliment Dunness Stores in Bishopstown Cork if ever I had a good experience it was there though that was at least five years ago now!

    I couldn't tell you if there is a worst or best but in my view there evident lack of customer service must drive sales away. I tend to avoid Dunness and would want to be extremely stuck if I were to shop there.


    If you worked in one for a few weeks you wouldn't wonder why the staff aren't happy! They are notorious as an employer for a very good reason. They only care about having stock on the floor and selling it, seriously customer service is not stressed at any point. It's up to the individual. I for one worked in two Dunnes for nearly 4 years and was always able to be pleasant. But I'm well able to see why others aren't doing this. There's no motivation, the only thing that gets you through the day is the people you work with, everything else is fairly soul destroying. Customers treat staff and stock like crap also, which isn't going to raise staff morale. The drapery sections are treated just like Penneys is, except with way less staff to cope with it. All stores are understaffed big time.

    Dunnes has a huge amount of staff who have been there 10+ years. Customer service actively declines the longer the staff are there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,027 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Ammonite wrote: »
    I agree with this. It's one seriously weird set up. That whole centre is an utter disgrace and should be knocked, I'm interested to know if there's a more dated shopping centre in Ireland. It's hard to believe the Crumlin SC even still exists in 2012.

    Was talking to Staff in Tesco apprarantly Dunnes got rid of all the shop units and where going to build a super store but the property bubble burst and decided not to go ahead with the development.

    I heard the Dunnes board of management are hoping for someone to buy them out like Asda or Walmart but don't think that's going to happen.

    I do wish there was a grocery Dunnes in Lucan or Adamstown but thats not going to happen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Depressing Dunnes?! hmmm i guess maybe the one in Northside but its not that bad tbh.

    I miss the old Dunnes on Henry street, remember when it was smaller, upstairs had nightwear and the like, and you could get to the Dunnes supermarket through the back, i miss that!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭SimonLynch


    blah88 wrote: »
    Worked in the Dunnes in the Swan Centre for about a month recently. Was grand except for the manager. Never wanted to punch someone so badly in my life.
    If that's the manager I'm thinking of he'd have blocked your punch, decked you and done a Roy Keane afterwards. For me - Saggart - pointless store and worst customer service imagineable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    The mens section of the old Dunnes in Sligo. It's litarally a warehouse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Joko


    I think Tesco is the worst supermarket in Ireland. All their stores are grotty looking, dirty floors and boxes everywhere. I might be biased though, used to work in Tesco and focking hated it. Superquinn ftw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    If the Tescos in The Old Shopping Centre in Dundalk was a Dunnes, that would be it. It's one of only two shops still open in the whole decrepit building. The rest of the place is in a silent eerie gloom.

    I sometimes imagine that the staff in there have no idea that the rest of the place has closed and have been busily working away none the wiser since the 90s when I was young and it was a thriving place.

    Since it isn't a Dunnes though, it has absolutely nothing to do with this thread...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Joko wrote: »
    I think Tesco is the worst supermarket in Ireland. All their stores are grotty looking, dirty floors and boxes everywhere. I might be biased though, used to work in Tesco and focking hated it. Superquinn ftw.

    All of them? There's a big variation between them, some are nice like Naas or Celbridge, then Parnell St. Dublin is awful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    anyone remember the downstairs in the old dunnes on north earl street? it looked like a nazi bomb shelter

    That one was unbelievable. I remember being in there in the mid 90s and the female staff were still wearing the blue checked smocks they used to wear in the early 80s. All the other stores had gone through a number of uniform changes, they'd had the green dress and moved on from that to the blue suit but not in North Earl St. It was like time travel. Really crappy time travel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    It's still there. It closed for a year and then reopened. It's still getting killed by Stephen's green though..

    upstairs in the ilac creeps me out cause its closed and dark


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Slunk


    Another vote for cardiffsbridge road finglas. Absolute hole.
    Agree with west street drogheda too. Its seems the build new stores in shopping centres and the old ones are left to rot. In saying that I hope they never close my ****hole in finglas. Its handy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    Yes Tesco in the centre has closed since the new development opened.

    Thanks for running down our town on a public forum. This place has being hit a hammer blow since the recession not that boom ever benefited it in the first place. Our golden period during the 70s and 80s was killed by a bunch of under qualified morons who destroyed the Antigen Pharmaceutical company, a homegrown multinational that shut its doors in profit due to criminal negligence from three westerners who I won't name.

    I didn't mean to run it down but it really is so dreary, and actually it has huge potential so I just don't understand how Roscrea has so little around, especially given that it's in a great location between Limerick and Dublin. I actually always found the people there so friendly so it just confuses me even more that it doesn't have more going for it. Like even if you want to go for lunch or a meal there or a even cup of coffee, the choices of genuinely nice places are really limited. Shame really.


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