Beer in Sainsburys in NI

Irish-trucker

anyone going to newry for shopping - consider going on to belfast; as my uncle was up there 2 weeks ago , and he was in newry on sunday and thought it was crap shopping , there's more in belfast .

but if your going for the beer , newry will be grand

dsab

Just add the extra 25 minutes from Newry, and drive to the huge Sainsbury in Lisburn. Straight on the Motorway. There is a huge Dunnes, huge Sainsbury, a MCD, B&Q and some other shops.

We were there two weeks ago, and it was very pleasant. The Sainsbury is so big, it won`t easily be crowded.

viking

dsab wrote:

Just add the extra 25 minutes from Newry, and drive to the huge Sainsbury in Lisburn. Straight on the Motorway. There is a huge Dunnes, huge Sainsbury, a MCD, B&Q and some other shops.

We were there two weeks ago, and it was very pleasant. The Sainsbury is so big, it won`t easily be crowded.

Does the Sainsbury's in Lisburn take euro and give the same rate 73p->€1??

dsab

They def. take Euro in Lisburn, as someone in front of me paid with them.

I don`t know the exchange rates, as I payed by CC.

okidoki987

Went up to Sainsbury's in Newry yesterday.
NEVER AGAIN!

A tip when you are going into the town 1st roundabout you meet from ROI side, instead of taking the exit (approaching at 6 oclock you take the 3 oclock exit) to Newry City centre, take the one to Belfast (exit at 12 oclock). Go 2.5 miles up here to a roundabout and take the 5pm exit to Newry Town centre (B&Q, McDonald's, DFS, Mfi on your left. this will bring into the town and Sainsbury's from the back and you will avoid the horrendous q's of traffic trying to get into the car parks for both Sainsbury's and Buttercrane centres
from the Dublin side.

It took me 20 minutes to get parking at 1.30pm and over 50% of the cars there were from Dublin! There was a Q for the off-licence but didn't think the saving was worth the wait.
Left at 5pm (big mistake) the tailback until the motorway was terrible, took us an hour to get from Newry City centre to Motorway.

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Fr Dougal
Was up there in Sainsburys on Saturday
Grolsch - 24 bottles £11.99stg or £16stg for 2 boxes (Think it's 5%)
Stella - 20 bottles £11.99stg or £16stg for 2
Smirnoff Ice 2 boxes of 12, That's 24 bottles for £16stg
Coors Lite - 20 bottles £12.99
Bulmers (Magners) is £55stg for 2 trays (48 cans) That's €79. It costs €96 down here.
Baileys £10stg
WKD Blue, £2.88stg for a 700ml bottle!

They must have put the prices UP!
Yesterday it was 20 STG for 2 boxes or 12.99 each
(you could mix and match Grolsch, Bud, Miller, Stella etc).

Yesterday the exchange rate was 0.73 and if you over paid in Euro you got the change back in GBP!

Horeb

Have you tried going in via Carlingford or Omeath, i do that now excatly 4 miles longer, road not the best but you could save up to 45 mins.

Also the B&Q route well did you try parking around by TK max and coming back the same way, i do both and miss all the traffic.

goto the sainsburys website for offers also best for another 45 mins heading to sanisburys in sprucefield a more pleasant experience.

wolfe25

heffo9 wrote:

should checkout the off license at fiveways garage near macdonalds and b&q in newry. generally i have found them to be cheaper and have better specials than sainsbury's. this is where most of the locals would buy their beer, so they are hardly goin to rip off there own.
directions:when you reach the roundabout which you have to turn right and head under the bridge to enter newry.
well dont take this turn, carry on through the roundabout, drive for about 5 minutes and you will see macdonalds and across the road will be the garage with the offlicense right beside it.

heffo
Is that across the road from the business park where B&Q and a load of furniture stores are located? That road would take you back in at the north end of Newry again.
Sainsbury's off licence is an endurance test, especially at weekends this time of year.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Hey,
Was in Sainsburys in Newry today. Not really busy at all.
They except euro at a 0.73 rate, which is great. BOI only gave me 0.6715 today.

But I'll know for the next time

ambrose :cool:

heffo9

thats the one wolfe25,