Stores Closing in Sligo **mod warning post #720**

Basq

So apparently Mary's Of Sligo has closed down..

bennyc

Basq wrote: »

So apparently Mary's Of Sligo has closed down..

balls , that will be missed , best place in the world for back to school

UrbanSea

I was concerned after I went in the other week and everything was half price.


A real shame.

AlmightyCushion

Basq wrote: »

So apparently Mary's Of Sligo has closed down..

Damn. I didn't see that coming. Shame. Another empty shop in the town centre.

Basq

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Damn. I didn't see that coming. Shame. Another empty shop in the town centre.

Indeed... Castle Street is becoming more bare by the day!

magnumlady

That's a real shame. I wondered when I saw the back bit closed off a few weeks before Christmas.

DenMan

Took this with my fone this afternoon. The note on the window is a message saying that they had to close down due to the recession.

Son Of A Vidic

The only thing we'll have left are the banks, whom we own of course. Yet they continue to suck the life out of small business and us poor unfortunate taxpayers.

Mint Sauce

Basq wrote: »

So apparently Mary's Of Sligo has closed down..

Marys of Donegal also closing, if not already. So could be all their stores being affected, believe they have a few around the west/northwest.

Plazaman

Basq wrote: »

So apparently Mary's Of Sligo has closed down..

I was told recently that they are renovating the big shop down the street from Mary's (was Castle Interiors or Meldrums I think) for a Dealz franchise to go in there. They might have got wind of this or more likely the Euro Store in Johnstons Court and the similar shop at the top of O'Connell Street has taken quite a bit of their trade.

red sean

I think the whole Mary's group is gone, not just Sligo.

magnumlady

Plazaman wrote: »

I was told recently that they are renovating the big shop down the street from Mary's (was Castle Interiors or Meldrums I think) for a Dealz franchise to go in there. They might have got wind of this or more likely the Euro Store in Johnstons Court and the similar shop at the top of O'Connell Street has taken quite a bit of their trade.

Dealz is a great shop. I was wondering what was going to be in there.

Basq

I heard another rumour that Penneys was going in there, while they're doing renovations in their store on O Connell Street.

Mint Sauce

red sean wrote: »

I think the whole Mary's group is gone, not just Sligo.

Donegal Town has gone anyway.

dingding

Athlone one looked like it was open when I was passing last night.

Donal94

Anyone know when this shop closed down or if it ever existed, I'm in sligo today was looking for it was delighted with myself was going to buy a guitar but no one had ever heard of it and the phone number is dead. The music store wine street, website is still up at this link
http://www.musicstore.eu.pn/index.html

Truley

Donal94 wrote: »

Anyone know when this shop closed down or if it ever existed, I'm in sligo today was looking for it was delighted with myself was going to buy a guitar but no one had ever heard of it and the phone number is dead. The music store wine street, website is still up at this link
http://www.musicstore.eu.pn/index.html

My OH tells me that there is a well known 'Music Store' brand in Germany. I certainly never saw this in Sligo though, the pictures and some of the amateurish wording on the website are making me think it's not real?

The Sligo Music Store is an instrument supplier store and a meeting place for musicians. The store is owned and run by Joe Blogs. It is a new shop which has the lowest prices on music equipment.

magnumlady

Donal94 wrote: »

Anyone know when this shop closed down or if it ever existed, I'm in sligo today was looking for it was delighted with myself was going to buy a guitar but no one had ever heard of it and the phone number is dead. The music store wine street, website is still up at this link
http://www.musicstore.eu.pn/index.html

I've never heard of a music store on Wine Street.

FoxyVixen

magnumlady wrote: »

I've never heard of a music store on Wine Street.

Ditto on above. Have no recollection of there being an instrument store on wine st. Did you call the number on the website?

Slidey

Maybe it's supposed to be the spot above the Record Room?

Donal94

Yeah tried the number, it didn't ring. I sent an email there now. Strange wondering if it's a scam website what there is to gain as you can't buy anything on it.

red sean

Owned and run by Joe Blogs :rolleyes:

http://www.musicstore.eu.pn/our_store.html

Donal94

Still don't get whats in it for them if its a scam

red sean

Donal94 wrote: »

Still don't get whats in it for them if its a scam

Agree. Baffled here too!

Donal94

Good one libertino

Mint Sauce

Slidey wrote: »

Maybe it's supposed to be the spot above the Record Room?

Isn't that Castle Street?

Basq

irish-stew wrote: »

Isn't that Castle Street?

Past Market Cross, so Grattan Street.

Website looks like a demo or proof of concept (lots of placeholders and non working link).. wouldn't think much more of it.

Domain is registered to a Barry O Shaughnessy.. it could be the same one who runs BOS Media in Galway.

HMV are reportedly going into administration,the Sligo store will surely close then.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/15/hmv-administrators-4500-jobs-at-risk

Basq

zorro2566 wrote: »

HMV are reportedly going into administration,the Sligo store will surely close then.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/15/hmv-administrators-4500-jobs-at-risk

Very likely to, but not a definite.

Sad to see it go - both for staff and competition (as Gamestop and Xtra-Vision are far more expensive IMO).

Even if they (unlikely) come out of administration or find another buyer, their decision to reject vouchers will hurt them.

UrbanSea

Bad form not accepting vouchers, especially so close after Christmas. I'm sure there are thousands of people with HMV vouchers nationwide