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Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland?

  • 24-04-2012 12:15am
    #1
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭


    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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  • #2
    MickySticks
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    Tom Dunne


  • #3
    RichieC
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    The one in the Square is quite chipper!


  • #4
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Ballina.

    /thread


  • #5
    efb
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    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!


  • #6
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    The one with Irelands' smallest lingerie department.


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  • #7
    cocoshovel
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    Thats a lovely poem


  • #8
    alie
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    Nutgrove.


  • #9
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Dunnes is dunnes and hardly Brown Thomas.

    They serves their purpose.


  • #10
    ballsymchugh
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    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..


  • #11
    Chain_reaction
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    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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  • #12
    mackg
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    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.


  • #13
    Pherekydes
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    The one in the Swan centre is a dump. And the one in Clondalkin.


  • #14
    admiralofthefleet
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    anyone remember the downstairs in the old dunnes on north earl street? it looked like a nazi bomb shelter


  • #15
    starviewadams
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    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.


  • #16
    Kylo Ren
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    jill_valentine wrote: »
    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.


  • #17
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    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.


  • #18
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Yeah coz Tesco is fun fun fun..


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
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    Captain Darling wrote: »
    It's a shop, within a shop, within a shop.

    Inshoption


  • #20
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Dunnes is for old people anyway.


  • #21
    JONJO THE MISER
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    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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  • #22
    Kevski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Kevski


    Dunnes in Crumlin Shopping Centre is a fairly depressing spot.


  • #23
    Caraville
    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.


  • #24
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #25
    skinny90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭skinny90


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    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


  • #26
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


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


  • #27
    humberklog
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    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.


  • #28
    RayM
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    jill_valentine wrote: »
    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.


  • #29
    IsThisIt???
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭IsThisIt???


    Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland?

    The one I work in!


  • #30
    NufcNavan
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    RayM wrote: »
    Dunnes Stores in Portlaoise is particularly grim.
    Fits in well with the rest of the town so.


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  • #31
    Azures
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭Azures


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Ballina.

    /thread
    I agree - that description was pure Ballina!


  • #32
    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    humberklog wrote: »
    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.
    Lidl think of the little people with their shelf heights anyway. Often been in Dunnes and had to nearly climb up on a shelf to get to something on the top shelf.


  • #33
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    The one with Irelands' smallest lingerie department.
    And what may I ask is wrong with small lingerie?


  • #34
    nibtrix
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    Kevski wrote: »
    Dunnes in Crumlin Shopping Centre is a fairly depressing spot.

    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?


  • #35
    NufcNavan
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    Where To wrote: »
    And what may I ask is wrong with small lingerie?
    Whoosh!


  • #36
    Dotsie~tmp
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    Not even a fuking contest. Dunnes Finglas South.

    http://c1.dmlimg.com/2e5c93fc5fcb277c88837e18ff8cc045c63cf17f33b26f0b416831f3fbfd828e.jpg


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  • #37
    Faith+1
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    The one in Finglas, near cappagh road is a right sh*thole.


  • #38
    wilkie2006
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    This thread needs a "Pics or GTFO"


  • #39
    skinny90
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    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


  • #40
    KungPao
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    NufcNavan wrote: »
    Whoosh!
    Whoosh!


  • #41
    blah88
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭blah88


    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.


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  • #42
    fasttalkerchat
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    Bernard


  • #43
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    KungPao wrote: »
    Whoosh!

    Whoosh!


  • #44
    Corruptedmorals
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    I worked in one mentioned here for years, its much better than most. Its a flagship and gets lots of attention...theres so many much more hideous, ugly and depressing ones. In town alone there's north earl street and the old ilac one with the grocery, now they are absolute holes.

    The staff are miserable because they're not nice to work for. Either you work in a grim depressing one where bad managers are sent or you work in a fancy flagship mental one that has head office in all the time and a lot of pressure and stress. Bad all round.


  • #45
    Pdfile
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    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    anyone remember the downstairs in the old dunnes on north earl street? it looked like a nazi bomb shelter


    hey ! the nazi's would of dunne well to have something like that !


  • #46
    Thefirestarter
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    Dotsie~tmp wrote: »
    Not even a fuking contest. Dunnes Finglas South.

    http://c1.dmlimg.com/2e5c93fc5fcb277c88837e18ff8cc045c63cf17f33b26f0b416831f3fbfd828e.jpg
    Faith+1 wrote: »
    The one in Finglas, near cappagh road is a right sh*thole.

    http://g.co/maps/8ehw6

    It's probably the worse supermarket I've ever been in. That part of Finglas South is criminally undeveloped, socially and culturally.


  • #47
    charlemont
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    Ballyvolane Cork.


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
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    The one in Ballina was perhaps the most depressing place on earth. I think it was actually at one time called the dirtiest Dunnes stores in Ireland. They gave it a bit if a face lift a few years back but it remains a pretty grim place. I worked there years back and at Christmas was told I was on hygiene duty which is just a fancy name for sweeping up. I'll never forget the first day when I looked under the shelves and saw a good decades worth of crap that has been swept under. There was 3 inches of dust, mouldy food and other treasures to be found.


  • #49
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    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.


  • #50
    smokedeels
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    Tesco is worse, they have that awful logo too, it looks like the away strip of an Association Football team playing in the Blue Square Northern League.

    I have a Dunnes brand cardigan somebody bought me that I'm quite fond of, so I'll defend them.


  • #51
    jill_valentine
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    I'm alright with clothesy Dunnes, at least they usually have some source of natural light. But foody Dunnes is just a haze of sadness and broken tiles and mysterious strips of tape on the floor.


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