Dunnes Stores to be sold

Our man in Havana

ejmaztec wrote: »

Anything's better than those SuperValu "pretend" supermarkets, that all seem to be owned by some local fat bloke.

+1

Agreed. You ever been to Kilkenny City?

ejmaztec

Bond-007 wrote: »

+1

Agreed. You ever been to Kilkenny City?

The journey would take much too long after having to take a detour round our own personal local fat bloke in Kerry - like a grounded Zeppelin, he is!

Our man in Havana

There are many supervalu empires around the country not just in Kerry. The local one here is on the county council. Handy for when a competitor tries to open up.

John Sheehy

John Sheehy wrote: »

BECAUSE a friend of mine works in Dunnes and was called in for a general staff meeting where they were told by the manager that the ASDA/Walmart take over was "bull****" and that the meeting was instead all the time to do with discussion over Christmas.

Which of course smacks of absolute horse****, I worked there for two years and never once was there a meeting to talk about Christmas. .

All the area managers do get together every year to plan ahead for christmas. They go over the previous years sales and set targets etc for the coming year. Happens every year.

ejmaztec

Bond-007 wrote: »

There are many supervalu empires around the country not just in Kerry. The local one here is on the county council. Handy for when a competitor tries to open up.

Yes, the SumoValu dynasties are well spread. Our man sobs on the phone to RGdata everytime he hears the word "Tesco" - they then do their damndest to block them, showing their concern for the poor consumers and how a big new Tesco store can only destroy the community, the very same community that SuperValu has fleeced supported over the years with its endless generosity, special offers, and coupons for three-legged coffee-tables!

mumhaabu

I'd love if Walmart came to Ireland and have everything under the one roof with Guns too. Man I love Walmart and the relativly hot lower class white chicks that work there for crap wages! I told the cashier one day that we have free health care, Minimum wage of €8.65 over $10, 20 days holidays and free education in Ireland as she could not believe it, she asked how to move there. This was in urban Utah in real Red America where such notions of Socialism are unheard of..... until Obama that was!

HughG

The new Dunnes will presumably try to get like Asda after copying M&S for years. Asda is not a good role model. Their range is awful (try reading a recipe and then buying the ingredients from Asda) and qualty is second to price. This looks a bad consumer moment.

ninty9er

I reckon the only big announcement to be made is that Margaret is retiring and the management will now be answerable to her son.

The family gets employment and a fortune in profits out of the company, why give it up?

The Roches I can kind of understand as they had another business for all the grandkids to transfer to, where would the Dunnes and Heffernans go?

Guy:Incognito

ninty9er wrote: »

I reckon the only big announcement to be made is that Margaret is retiring

Thats exactly the announcment btw. The whole asda thing came from someones imagination.

Corruptedmorals

I still think it might be sold, the Dunnes Head Office for the North and British Dunnes has been moved under Dublin control...ominous.

copacetic

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

I still think it might be sold, the Dunnes Head Office for the North and British Dunnes has been moved under Dublin control...ominous.

yep, that was in todays tribune. According to it, most observers think a sale of dunnes is a done deal.

Refresh

it would be such a shame

Our man in Havana

Why?

Anything that shakes up the retail scene is only a good thing.

ninty9er

Bond-007 wrote: »

Why?

Anything that shakes up the retail scene is only a good thing.

That's what they said when Debenhams took over Roches. I worked for both and I can only say It wasn't an improvement anyway, for staff or customers.

the_syco

God wrote: »

I think it's all a lie

You sure? Check this out!
http://www.dunnesstores.ie/news.php

Biggins

the_syco wrote: »

You sure? Check this out!
http://www.dunnesstores.ie/news.php

"Not Found

The requested URL /news.php was not found on this server."

the_syco

Biggins wrote: »

"Not Found

The requested URL /news.php was not found on this server."

Thought the "posted by God" would have given it away, but at least I got one

Biggins

the_syco wrote: »

Thought the "posted by God" would have given it away, but at least I got one

Curiosity got the better of me!
I've already killed the cat.

jaffa20

the_syco wrote: »

You sure? Check this out!
http://www.dunnesstores.ie/news.php

you my friend are a big LIAR!!!!! :pac::pac:

Dob74

copacetic wrote: »

yep, that was in todays tribune. According to it, most observers think a sale of dunnes is a done deal.

They probably want to sell, but they wont get top dollar the way the markets are. They could probably sell for a billion now but would of got 2 billion last year before the credit crunch.

Keith186

MIN2511 wrote: »

WTF....

Seriously, are there any more Irish owned shops anymore???

I found out yesterday that Spar is German

Don't despair Centra is here (or just a walk away!).:D

It's owned by Musgraves and they are Irish.

Silrog

MIN2511 wrote: »

WTF....

Seriously, are there any more Irish owned shops anymore???

I found out yesterday that Spar is German

That ain't true. There is a German word "Spar(en)", but the company Spar consists of independent stores that unite as Spar. The headquarters are in the Netherlands, where the company was born too.

Btw. - what would be bad about Spar being German ?

Alun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPAR tells you all you need to know (and more) about SPAR and it's origins.

getz

if walmart buy dunnes i think they will not change the name to asda ,most likely it still will be called dunnes part of the walmart family

Heyes

Its not going to be sold, its media speculation.

Dooish

never going to happen as the size of the average dunnes stores would be to small for them. the majority of the stores in the north are classed as small with the exception of enniskillen and strabane and they are only classed as large.

when safeway took over the old wellworths stores in the north, the first thing they done was to cherry pick the best and sell the rest. the same would happen with asda, cherry pick the best and flog or close the rest.

i would say that a superquinn take over would be more likely than dunnes

Nic'name

I heard Superquinn are nearly gone too must ask my boyf again he told me. Any news about Dunnes yet they still keepin quiet?

MIN2511

Keith186 wrote: »

Don't despair Centra is here (or just a walk away!).:D

It's owned by Musgraves and they are Irish.

Thank God!

Silrog wrote: »

That ain't true. There is a German word "Spar(en)", but the company Spar consists of independent stores that unite as Spar. The headquarters are in the Netherlands, where the company was born too.

Btw. - what would be bad about Spar being German ?

Nope nothing bad, just there is nothing Irish anymore.... Germans and Brits have taken over! No more corner shops, all Spar!!!

Longerview

ALDI plan to open over 30 new stores in the next 3 years.Will Dunnes have much choice in the end.The competition is increasing and the recession is making people very aware of prices.Dunnes will have to revert to their previous "better value" model or sell to ASDA.Either way ,shopping will be cheaper !

jesus_thats_gre

Heyes wrote: »

Its not going to be sold, its media speculation.

Lol, you seem quite sure of yourself.


All those recent 25% off sales apparent sole purpose were to make sales look better. They paid for this by cutting chunks out of the hours given to part time staff.. They have also apparently stopped rolling out new stores.

Note: the aggressive roll out of new stores was done so in order to put off any potential buyers. This decision has been reversed already apparently.