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Standard of service in Blanchardstown supermarkets

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  • #52
    Conor30
    Registered Users Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Conor30


    Knine wrote: »
    I got two filled rolls in here today in the deli. I was served by a sour faced dark haired girl who seemed to hate her job and seemed extremely pissed off at having to do some work. it cost nearly 7 euro for the two. When I got home the rolls were rock hard, obviously from the day before. Very poor form and I won't be going back there as it's not the first time.

    Avoid this deli if you want fresh food.

    I think it'd be a good idea to make a complaint to the manager and/or email head office of Spar. They won't be happy that a franchise is letting the name down.


  • #53
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    Knine wrote: »
    I got two filled rolls in here today in the deli. I was served by a sour faced dark haired girl who seemed to hate her job and seemed extremely pissed off at having to do some work. it cost nearly 7 euro for the two. When I got home the rolls were rock hard, obviously from the day before. Very poor form and I won't be going back there as it's not the first time.

    Avoid this deli if you want fresh food.

    By contrast, the SPAR deli at the back of the Ballycoolin Business Park is excellent. Friendly staff, fresh food, decent prices, superb hygiene & fairly fast service during the busy lunch period.

    It's amazing the difference a few decent employees can make.


  • #54
    sambora
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭sambora


    Diddler1977 wrote: »
    Staff in Eurospar Hartstown are fairly good too.

    They are a pain in the h0le! That shop in general is an excuse and the staff are always in a mood and very loud!


  • #55
    Okocim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Okocim


    The Spar in Mulhuddart village is actually a lot more expensive than the Spar beside the Off Licence in ''The Crescent''. Also be sure to check your change in BOTH places and also that you're charged the advertised price label price. The have a habit of not updating their barcodes especially with ''special offers''. Have had to pull them up on numerous ocasions about this!


  • #56
    zef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 947 ✭✭✭zef


    On the topic of Spar in Mulhuddart,I agree with above poster re: check the till operator charges you the correct 'offer price', I have been nearly overcharged in there a good few times. Sometimes with the polish girls there you nearly have to have a row with them to prove the item is on sale for 1euro or whatever.
    My current bugbear with Spar is their advertising of an offer on chicken breasts the past 2 weeks, I am in there 4-5 days a week, I have yet to see stock of this offer.
    The shop itself is looking a bit scruffy if you ask me, and the portions in the Deli counter are dependant on the staffs humour so I don't bother buying out of it anymore.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Spar in the crescent is the worst I've seen. Deli staff are always pissed off with something and the till operators scowl at you if you're more than 10 seconds putting the stuff into their ****e bags. You'd think they'd bag the stuff for you instead of throwing the bag at you and staring at you while you put the stuff in.
    /rant


  • #58
    Okocim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Okocim


    Back to Spar in ''The Crescent''..just when you think you've seen and heard it all, the security guy now seems to have taken to greeting the male customers as ''sweet heart''. Wonder what he does when greeting the female customers? :eek::eek: Maybe it's the latest security technique to make potential shop lifters think twice or maybe he's just gone a bit Tutti Frutti with the Fruit Pastiles!


  • #59
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Okocim wrote: »
    Back to Spar in ''The Crescent''..just when you think you've seen and heard it all, the security guy now seems to have taken to greeting the male customers as ''sweet heart''. Wonder what he does when greeting the female customers? :eek::eek: Maybe it's the latest security technique to make potential shop lifters think twice or maybe he's just gone a bit Tutti Frutti with the Fruit Pastiles!

    Maybe that greeting is just for you...;)


  • #60
    Okocim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Okocim


    Standard practise it seems, have seen and heard others given the same greeting by this guy. Me mates have nicknamed him ''Little Richard''.


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  • #61
    Okocim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Okocim


    And avoid buying 400g Charleville cheese in Spar at The Crescent unless you have 5.49 euros :eek::eek::eek:


  • #62
    athtrasna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    Okocim wrote: »
    And avoid buying 400g Charleville cheese in Spar at The Crescent unless you have 5.49 euros :eek::eek::eek:

    I've just checked Tesco price online and it's €4.99 - so to be honest, given that Spars are usually more expensive by a lot, 10% extra isn't outrageous IMO


  • #63
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    Can anyone tell the girls on the tills in dunnes in the centre to stop yapping and just serve the customers please. ?


  • #64
    leggo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    Can anyone tell the girls on the tills in dunnes in the centre to stop yapping and just serve the customers please. ?

    Do what I do: if they tut at you and roll their eyes for interrupting their conversation, tut and roll your eyes back at them.


  • #65
    Okocim
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Okocim


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    Can anyone tell the girls on the tills in dunnes in the centre to stop yapping and just serve the customers please. ?

    Yeah some of the dunnes stores scobie type staff would get a rude awakening if they ever had to work in Lidl or Aldi, they wouldn't last an hour. In fairness anyone working in Lidl or Aldi has to have a proactive and high work ethic from what I can see. A lot of multi tasking, always seem to be on the go.


  • #66
    dickwod1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭dickwod1


    I was in Eurospar Hartstown last week getting the baguettes that you finish baking yourself in the oven, Cuisine de France were 1.50 and seen then Spar's own brand were 1.00 so I said I'll try Spar's brand. Got to the till price comes up 1.50 I said there 1.00 he said I'll go check and comes back and says no there 1.50! I was 100% certain there were 1.00 so I said there not and walked down with him and showed him the price of 1.00 and he goes ok I'll give them to you for 1.00 like he was doing me a favour:eek: ... Im sick of that shop always overcharging for everything they sell :mad:


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  • #67
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    dickwod1 wrote: »
    Im sick of that shop always overcharging for everything they sell :mad:

    If they are always doing so, why do you keep going back giving them your custom?


  • #68
    athtrasna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    dickwod1 wrote: »
    I was in Eurospar Hartstown last week getting the baguettes that you finish baking yourself in the oven, Cuisine de France were 1.50 and seen then Spar's own brand were 1.00 so I said I'll try Spar's brand. Got to the till price comes up 1.50 I said there 1.00 he said I'll go check and comes back and says no there 1.50! I was 100% certain there were 1.00 so I said there not and walked down with him and showed him the price of 1.00 and he goes ok I'll give them to you for 1.00 like he was doing me a favour:eek: ... Im sick of that shop always overcharging for everything they sell :mad:

    They weren't obliged to do that. A price on a shelf is an "invitation to treat" legally speaking. For the record, Dunnes part baked baguettes are the nicest around and 59c!


  • #69
    dickwod1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭dickwod1


    athtrasna wrote: »
    They weren't obliged to do that. A price on a shelf is an "invitation to treat" legally speaking.

    ????:confused:???? That may be so but I dont live in a legal world I live in the real world ... Must give the Dunnes ones a try :)


  • #70
    dickwod1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭dickwod1


    ongarboy wrote: »
    If they are always doing so, why do you keep going back giving them your custom?

    Oh believe me that the was the last time I visited that store (Similar price issues happened previous times I was there) I drive past that now and go to Dunnes in Ongar


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