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Any shop open today?

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  • 25-12-2010 3:41pm
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    Raiser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭


    Newsagents or Petrol Station?

    - Merry Christmas one and all!!!


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    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    Applegreen in corbally and the new petrol station near it is too


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    Icky Thump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Icky Thump


    o'neills on upper william street(now called foodcourt) is usally open christmas until about 6ish


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    Raiser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Got sorted - Thanks Folks, much appreciated!


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    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    I have no respect for anyone who opens on Christmas Day.


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    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    RonMexico wrote: »
    I have no respect for anyone who opens on Christmas Day.

    To some people in Ireland, today is saturday, just like any other saturday.


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    irishproduce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    F1ngers wrote: »
    To some people in Ireland, today is saturday, just like any other saturday.

    +1!

    I need petrol today!
    By the way, if you required halal meat today, i'm sure you'd get it - not everyone is celebrating xmas lads.


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    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    There are plenty of people who open Christmas Day for no reason other than greed.


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    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    irishproduce wrote: »
    +1!

    I need petrol today!
    By the way, if you required halal meat today, i'm sure you'd get it - not everyone is celebrating xmas lads.

    Why didnt you just get it yesterday?

    It baffles me how people are surprised shops arent open on christmas day, you know its coming, if you need stuff get it the day before, simples


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    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Mr.S wrote: »
    They are a business, they want to make money. If they are clever enough to open up when most shops are closed, when a lot of people want to buy things then fair play to them.

    There is nothing clever about it in my eyes, just absolute greed.


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    irishproduce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    krudler wrote: »
    Why didnt you just get it yesterday?

    It baffles me how people are surprised shops arent open on christmas day, you know its coming, if you need stuff get it the day before, simples

    I didn't need it yesterday, I found out this afternoon I have to go somewhere tonight - I'm in work right now by the way so thought I would be heading home to relax later :-p

    Besides, I am not shocked anything is closed, I know its christmas but I was merely agreeing with the previous poster who highlighted that for a lot of people, this is just another Saturday.


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    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    irishproduce wrote: »
    if you required halal meat today, i'm sure you'd get it

    Out of curiosity whats halal meat?...never heard of it before.


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    irishproduce
    Registered Users Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭irishproduce


    Google it John.
    Its normal meat, butchered in accordance with Islamic law - Muslims don't celebrate Christmas, hence there'd be no problem finding halal butchers open today :D


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    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    irishproduce wrote: »
    Google it John.
    Its normal meat, butchered in accordance with Islamic law - Muslims don't celebrate Christmas, hence there'd be no problem finding halal butchers open today :D

    Thanks irishproduce. Wikipedia explained all


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    Limerick Dude
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    RonMexico wrote: »
    There is nothing clever about it in my eyes, just absolute greed.

    How ?

    What about people who don't celebrate christmas and who own a business
    ?


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    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    RonMexico wrote: »
    I have no respect for anyone who opens on Christmas Day.
    Including chemists?


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    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Sera wrote: »
    Including chemists?

    Is this a thread about chemists. I'm talking about people who own shops and petrol stations. I also don't buy into the excuse that the places are open because they don't celebrate Christmas. Bull****, maybe one or two but the rest are just greedy.


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    Limerick Dude
    Registered Users Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    RonMexico wrote: »
    Is this a thread about chemists. I'm talking about people who own shops and petrol stations. I also don't buy into the excuse that the places are open because they don't celebrate Christmas. Bull****, maybe one or two but the rest are just greedy.

    Greedy?

    There providing a service to people who need it on a day where nearly every other place is closed.

    I cant see how it is being greedy, there just taking advantage of a good oppurtunity and I would no doubt do the same if owned a business.


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    ludwit
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    chemists should all close on christmas as its selfish to buy perfume and condoms on christmas day.


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    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    I worked in a supermarket about 10 years ago merchandising for coca cola, and the blatant greed on display by pretty much all the brands in the supermarket was disgusting. Put me off Christmas. The larger brands would buy up more shelf space, and merchandisers would get thick if someone else placed a product in their space by mistake (or on purpose).
    Can't remember much mention of Christianity in there either on the run up to Christmas....
    And people going buck ape filling the trollies for the sake of a day.
    I just don't get it, so I suppose you could call me a bah humbug and the rest of it.


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    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    I think its wrong to open on Christmas, employees should legally be allowed at least one day a year where they dont have to work.


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    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    Unreal amount of shoppers around Limerick today, never seen it so busy. Raheen shopping center was madness aswell..


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    Magnum
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Magnum


    ludwit wrote: »
    chemists should all close on christmas as its selfish to buy perfume and condoms on christmas day.


    People need condoms Christmas Day the same as any other day , nothing wrong with a shag before mass (what else is there to do):o


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    nathan184
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭nathan184


    RonMexico wrote: »
    Is this a thread about chemists. I'm talking about people who own shops and petrol stations. I also don't buy into the excuse that the places are open because they don't celebrate Christmas. Bull****, maybe one or two but the rest are just greedy.

    Ireland is a very sleepy little country. It is nearly shut down for two days of the week and if you're sick/need a dentist, etc. on a Sunday well tough luck buddy cos it's Ireland!

    Are you making this an issue of religion? We should be worshipping the same god whose representatives have been covering up child abuse for the last xx years??

    Someone who opens on Christmas day is a sensible down to earth person who realises that just because a fictional character was apparently born on a certain day of the year, it doesn't mean people don't need petrol/medicine,etc. for that day!

    This thread was started by someone who needed help finding a shop. He has found it. Maybe the mods should move this to a religious debate forum or maybe we should let this thread die.


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    #25
    Builderfromhell
    Registered Users Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Builderfromhell


    Had to drop daughter to Crescent shopping centre, the traffic trying to get out was unreal. Must have taken 20 mins. I really don't get this shopping thing. Why would people endure such boring hardship to get more stuff.

    To each their own I guess. Some people seem to crave the madness.


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    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Christmas Day has been and gone, so I'm closing this thread.


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