Superquinn Great Christmas Giveaway

tonymahoney

Superquinn are starting a great Christmas promotion giveaway tomorrow:

Spend €150 or more in a single transaction between Wed 9th Dec & Thurs 24th Dec 2009 inclusive and you will receive 3 x Superquinn Christmas Giveaway vouchers totalling €50 (€20,€20 & €10), with your till receipt, to redeem against shopping from Friday 1st Jan 2010 to Sun 31st Jan 2010.

To redeem:Present Chrstmas vouchers at checkout for any three seperate transactions of €100 or more from 1 - 31 Jan 2010 inclusive

see in any Superquinn store for details and all terms and conditions

HappyHarry

I like SuperQuinn, but don't shop there that often because they are a bit pricey. I do shop there now and again.

That aside this is not much of a Bargain, if I'm reading this right you have to spend €150 euro between 9-24Dec and another €300 Jan 1-31 to avail of the full €50 off.

Here is a better BA...
If you need to buy the equivalent of €450 of shopping from Superquinn,
buy it somewhere else, you will save more than €50 and don't have to buy certain amounts or between certain dates!

It really pisses me off that Supermarkets (retailers in general) in ROI are ripping us all off! Higher costs me arse... the reason is higher profits!

The 'paddy tax' is alive and well - recession or not.

tonymahoney wrote: »

Superquinn are starting a great Christmas promotion giveaway tomorrow:

Spend €150 or more in a single transaction between Wed 9th Dec & Thurs 24th Dec 2009 inclusive and you will receive 3 x Superquinn Christmas Giveaway vouchers totalling €50 (€20,€20 & €10), with your till receipt, to redeem against shopping from Friday 1st Jan 2010 to Sun 31st Jan 2010.

To redeem:Present Chrstmas vouchers at checkout for any three seperate transactions of €100 or more from 1 - 31 Jan 2010 inclusive

see in any Superquinn store for details and all terms and conditions

Nabber

They are an expensive shop indeed. I go there for the cream cakes tho

Tony you working for them long now?

see in any Superquinn store for details and all terms and conditions
Nice little touch

RayCon

HappyHarry wrote: »

Here is a better BA...
If you need to buy the equivalent of €450 of shopping from Superquinn,
buy it somewhere else, you will save more than €50 and don't have to buy certain amounts or between certain dates!

Spot on ....

Liam O

HappyHarry wrote: »

I like SuperQuinn, but don't shop there that often because they are a bit pricey. I do shop there now and again.

That aside this is not much of a Bargain, if I'm reading this right you have to spend €150 euro between 9-24Dec and another €300 Jan 1-31 to avail of the full €50 off.

Here is a better BA...
If you need to buy the equivalent of €450 of shopping from Superquinn,
buy it somewhere else, you will save more than €50 and don't have to buy certain amounts or between certain dates!

It really pisses me off that Supermarkets (retailers in general) in ROI are ripping us all off! Higher costs me arse... the reason is higher profits!

The 'paddy tax' is alive and well - recession or not.

It's a bargain for people who do their weekly shopping at Superquinn. An Irish company, whose money doesn't go to other countries.

tonymahoney

Nabber wrote: »

They are an expensive shop indeed. I go there for the cream cakes tho

Tony you working for them long now?

see in any Superquinn store for details and all terms and conditions
Nice little touch

I am just happy to promote an Irish brand - I like their fresh produce - good quality - you get what you pay for

noodler

HappyHarry wrote: »

It really pisses me off that Supermarkets (retailers in general) in ROI are ripping us all off! Higher costs me arse... the reason is higher profits!

The 'paddy tax' is alive and well - recession or not.

I agree with alot of what you said but stop perpetuating ignorance, you can't just dismiss the higher costs of the South when looking at these things. If I see one more person using the "Paddy Tax is alive and well" line in ignorance I will have a little cry.

CombatCow

Liam O wrote: »

It's a bargain for people who do their weekly shopping at Superquinn. An Irish company, whose money doesn't go to other countries.

Think i'll stick to Dunnes Stores......

phasers

tonymahoney wrote: »

I like their fresh produce - good quality - you get what you pay for

Lidl do great fruit and veg for a fraction of the price.

spadder

Yep, Superquinn are pricing themselves out of existance, haven't set foot in their shops for years.

RasTa

tonymahoney wrote: »

I am just happy to promote an Irish brand - I like their fresh produce - good quality - you get what you pay for

Then go to the butchers or your local fruit&veg shop. F*ck superquinn and it's overpriced ****e!

Although I do shop in tescos for my treats.

bazwaldo

No one is forcing anyone to shop in SQ. I don't why people feel the need to either SQ bash or list every other shop thats cheaper here. Like all shops, they have their good points and bad. And this is not the place to list them.

If anyone does their weekly shopping there, then the OP is good to know.

T-Square

CombatCow wrote: »

Think i'll stick to Dunnes Stores......

Not everybody wants to shop in Dunnes/Tesco just because it is cheaper.
I like to enjoy shopping.
On the occasions when I do go to Tesco, I feel like I'm surrounded by losers, the store is rough too, as rough as the people who go there. And there are always some langers hanging around outside, and if they aren't outside, they are inside, trying to figure out which bottle of cheap booze will get them drunk.

HappyHarry

noodler wrote: »

I agree with alot of what you said but stop perpetuating ignorance, you can't just dismiss the higher costs of the South when looking at these things. If I see one more person using the "Paddy Tax is alive and well" line in ignorance I will have a little cry.

I don't want to drag this thread off topic, but this warrants a reply.

I appreciate that this I came across a bit cavalier, and that there are in some cases higher costs in ROI (rent, taxes, wages, energy etc). However it is a fact that many shops charge an additional (over and above the real extra costs) premium in Irish branches (aka the Paddy Tax). This is a fact straight from people I know that are staff in multinational retailers.

Dismissing this fact is ignorance.

Does it cost the retailer €200 extra to sell a coat in Dublin than in various other cities in Europe? Does it cost €25 euro extra to sell a pair of shoes in Dublin than in Belfast? No, the shop put the price up based on what they think people will pay. This is fair enough, it capitalism but it pisses me off no end to then hear the retailers association whinging that people aren't buying off them and asking for government handouts to 'protect jobs'. They want to protect profits! If they reduced their prices to a reasonable level more people will buy and stop running across the border every time they want a pint of milk.


And BTW I'm all for buying Irish, but there are better value Irish alternatives, and this is a Bargain forum after all it's about pointing out where the value is, not the supermaket with the best ambiance! As said in my first post I do sometimes shop in Superquinn, I like the shop and particularly their baked goods and fresh produce, but this isn't really a Bargain Alert. If you have to do your weekly shopping in Superquinn every week for whatever reason, they I'm sure you'll see the signs in store, but are people really going to go running to SQ for this 'great saving' ... well maybe - they say there is one born every minute

noodler

HappyHarry wrote: »

I don't want to drag this thread off topic, but this warrants a reply.

I appreciate that this I came across a bit cavalier, and that there are in some cases higher costs in ROI (rent, taxes, wages, energy etc). However it is a fact that many shops charge an additional (over and above the real extra costs) premium in Irish branches (aka the Paddy Tax). This is a fact straight from people I know that are staff in multinational retailers.

Dismissing this fact is ignorance.

Does it cost the retailer €200 extra to sell a coat in Dublin than in various other cities in Europe? Does it cost €25 euro extra to sell a pair of shoes in Dublin than in Belfast? No, the shop put the price up based on what they think people will pay. This is fair enough, it capitalism but it pisses me off no end to then hear the retailers association whinging that people aren't buying off them and asking for government handouts to 'protect jobs'. They want to protect profits! If they reduced their prices to a reasonable level more people will buy and stop running across the border every time they want a pint of milk.


And BTW I'm all for buying Irish, but there are better value Irish alternatives, and this is a Bargain forum after all it's about pointing out where the value is, not the supermaket with the best ambiance! As said in my first post I do sometimes shop in Superquinn, I like the shop and particularly their baked goods and fresh produce, but this isn't really a Bargain Alert. If you have to do your weekly shopping in Superquinn every week for whatever reason, they I'm sure you'll see the signs in store, but are people really going to go running to SQ for this 'great saving' ... well maybe - they say there is one born every minute

I didn't dismis anything sir.

I am fully aware that when rents, higher Vat/minimum wages, economies of scale etc are taken into account there is still a disparity.

What I don't do however, is try and attribute every cent of difference between a Northern and Southern good to a "rip-off".

The rest of your post goes into some rant explaining that you are not anti-Irish in terms of your shopping habits - nothing that really applies to anything I said tbh.

EDIT: Tbh I can sum up by saying if you had included the clarification above in your OP that I wouldn't have opened mu mouth about it.

HappyHarry

noodler wrote: »

I didn't dismis anything sir.

I am fully aware that when rents, higher Vat/minimum wages, economies of scale etc are taken into account there is still a disparity.

What I don't do however, is try and attribute every cent of difference between a Northern and Southern good to a "rip-off".

The rest of your post goes into some rant explaining that you are not anti-Irish in terms of your shopping habits - nothing that really applies to anything I said tbh.

EDIT: Tbh I can sum up by saying if you had included the clarification above in your OP that I wouldn't have opened mu mouth about it.

I never mentioned the North / South in the original post, the reference to Belfast in my reply was in passing - applies equally to many European cities, perhaps more so to those in the euro.

The second half my my reply wasn't really directed at you, but at other replies to my original post.

HappyHarry

noodler wrote: »

EDIT: Tbh I can sum up by saying if you had included the clarification above in your OP that I wouldn't have opened mu mouth about it.

So as long as it isn't in ignorance I can continue to say the Paddy Tax is alive an well without you contributing to the floods then?

Jet Black

Having worked there for years I can say the one of the reasons their prices are higher is wages. I was on 13euro per hour and worked the night shift for a year at double time 26euro per hour. All I did was pack shelves.
The staff were well looked after, not sure how it is now left four years ago.

Too many mistakes were made letting staff go and opening a central warehouse.

If they do leave I would miss them. Love the bakery and sausages.:D

dxhound2005

If they leave I suppose you will just have to go to the Tesco on Ganymede .

tonymahoney

spadder wrote: »

Yep, Superquinn are pricing themselves out of existance, haven't set foot in their shops for years.

There are such a wide variety of bargains across all retailers to be had in the current climate you cannot say any one particular retailer is cheaper than another - what is on offer one week in Dunnes,Supequinn, Tesco's etc. could be on offer in a different period elsewhere. If you "shop around" on a particular day / couple of days you will have differentials but with the vast offers on at present it is hard to justify a sweeping statement as above - price index is due out shortly and we will await the results of same to prove above statement - I note Superquinn are also doing another promo for Xmas - 10% off your Xmas turkey http://bit.ly/6JPUZL- I never have anything but Superquinn Turkey each Xmas and it is Yum

Sorry folks bit link not working - go to superquinn website for further details

bazwaldo

tonymahoney wrote: »

There are such a wide variety of bargains across all retailers to be had in the current climate you cannot say any one particular retailer is cheaper than another - what is on offer one week in Dunnes,Supequinn, Tesco's etc. could be on offer in a different period elsewhere. If you "shop around" on a particular day / couple of days you will have differentials but with the vast offers on at present it is hard to justify a sweeping statement as above - price index is due out shortly and we will await the results of same to prove above statement - I note Superquinn are also doing another promo for Xmas - 10% off your Xmas turkey http://bit.ly/6JPUZL- I never have anything but Superquinn Turkey each Xmas and it is Yum

Sorry folks bit link not working - go to superquinn website for further details

Spot on. Unless SQ is doing very cheap booze though, I would find it hard to spend 150 in SQ on things that are on offer on a particular day. Or any supermarket. Unless as I said there was a very good deal on booze.

BTW, remove the '-' at the end of your link and it works.