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Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland?

  • 23-04-2012 11:15pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Is it the grimy lino? The constant, arhythmically blinky flourescent lights? Perhaps it's the miserable looking pastry or the general, all permeating sense of despair that radiates from each and every staff member into the very metal of the shelves themselves? Maybe it's simply the invariable, almost visibly tangible sense of big-fish-in-a-small-pond lunacy all the supervisors always generate.

    Regardless, it simply wouldn't be a Dunnes Stores experience without that nagging, leaching, unfailing sense of melancholy characteristic to every branch.

    The question is - which is the most depressing Dunnes Stores in Ireland? Which is the one Dunnes that makes you want to close one of the freezers after you, or cry right into a handful of Cuisine De France?

    Personally, I'm inclined to suggest the one in Stephen's Green. I think it's that "abandoned fallout shelter" vibe that really gives it the edge, but I want to know what you guys think.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


    Tom Dunne


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,334 ✭✭✭RichieC


    The one in the Square is quite chipper!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,645 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Ballina.

    /thread


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


    SSG is pretty awful alright, Wexford- Redmond Sq is just a dump imho too much crap in too little space and the floor is many different floor types- none clean!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    The one with Irelands' smallest lingerie department.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Thats a lovely poem


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    Nutgrove.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Dunnes is dunnes and hardly Brown Thomas.

    They serves their purpose.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    thank your lucky stars they bought out H.williams, who had bought out crazy prices... who had bought out tesco after their first foray into the irish market..


  • Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Chain_reaction


    44leto wrote: »
    Dunnes is dunnes and hardly Brown Thomas.

    They serves their purpose.

    Am I the only one who thinks Dunnes have became dearer over the years?

    Remember years ago when kids were ashamed to be seen in Dunnes clothes etc.

    Anyways...

    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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    How could you forget the music? Maybe I'm especially sensitive as I worked there for quite a while and it slowly drove me to the brink of insanity. Don't know where they get it, exactly the same songs pumped through every store and it is the most tuneless miserable crap ever recorded.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,101 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    The one in the Swan centre is a dump. And the one in Clondalkin.


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


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Out of all the Dunnes Stores that I've worked in,the North Earl Street and Rathmines stores were the most depressing.Kilnamanagh isn't much better either.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Personally, I'm inclined to suggest the one in Stephen's Green. I think it's that "abandoned fallout shelter" vibe that really gives it the edge, but I want to know what you guys think.

    And they are always out of Nuka Cola.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    thank your lucky stars they bought out H.williams, who had bought out crazy prices... who had bought out tesco after their first foray into the irish market..
    It's a shop, within a shop, within a shop.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Yeah coz Tesco is fun fun fun..


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ Tinsley Yellow Oaf


    It's a shop, within a shop, within a shop.

    Inshoption


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Dunnes is for old people anyway.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    I love Dunnes, there layout there food etc, if your looking for a depressing cheap and skanky supermarket i suggest you go visit any Tesco.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Kevski


    Dunnes in Crumlin Shopping Centre is a fairly depressing spot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 854 ✭✭✭Caraville


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    The one with Irelands' smallest lingerie department.
    BRAvo for that post Keith. Of corset's true in Dunnes you'd need to be a big suspender sorry spender these days :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭skinny90


    Regardless, it simply wouldn't be a Dunnes Stores experience without that nagging, leaching, unfailing sense of melancholy characteristic to every branch.
    .
    Op by the sounds of it you have never been to lidl


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


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


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    skinny90 wrote: »
    Op by the sounds of it you have never been to lidl

    Nothing wrong with Lidl.

    Farf better than any other BigBrand shop.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    The question is - which is the most depressing Dunnes Stores in Ireland? Which is the one Dunnes that makes you want to close one of the freezers after you, or cry right into a handful of Cuisine De France?

    Dunnes Stores in Portlaoise is particularly grim.


  • Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭IsThisIt???


    Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland?

    The one I work in!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭NufcNavan


    RayM wrote: »
    Dunnes Stores in Portlaoise is particularly grim.
    Fits in well with the rest of the town so.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭Azures


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Ballina.

    /thread
    I agree - that description was pure Ballina!


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