Limerick Businesses Opening

jaxxx

jaxxx wrote: »

Two in fact, though not at the same time. One was on the Dock Road where the Dennehy's motors Renault is now. That closed. Then one popped up in Ballysimon where B&Q and Halfords are. Neither lasted very long.

And with World Of Wonder being gone from next to Travelodge, it'll be good to have competition for Smiths who have had a fair monopoly in Limerick for a long time I think it has to be said.

They're probably aiming to open before Christmas. I wonder how good their video game section is? I'd assume thats whats keeping Smiths going.

Cherrycoke

Has Starbucks opened in the station yet?

Insect Overlord

Cherrycoke wrote: »

Has Starbucks opened in the station yet?

bennyl10 wrote: »

Feel like all I do is lost about Starbucks now, but anyway, based on today, station on course to open for serond week in September

Thomas st, first week October

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Swiper the fox

Next week according to todays Leader

bennyl10

Yup sorry about lack of updates,


Opening Friday in station.
11am is plan

Poxyshamrock

What are the opening hours likely to be, do you know?

bennyl10

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

What are the opening hours likely to be, do you know?

6am to 10pm,

Opening and closing when station does

At least for first while anyway, unsure if it'll change on Sundays or not..

First opening Friday will be 11

If it changes I'll post here

Poxyshamrock

6am starts! :eek: Good luck! :eek:

bennyl10

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

6am starts! :eek: Good luck! :eek:

Worse, Half 5 starts

Ah if we get customers in it'll be fine

flyingsnail

Any chance of it opening early for those of us who use the early train :P

Berty

flyingsnail wrote: »

Any chance of it opening early for those of us who use the early train :P

You can get the same quality coffee on board the train. :pac:

miralize

Berty wrote: »

You can get the same quality coffee on board the train. :pac:

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

....No

bennyl10

flyingsnail wrote: »

Any chance of it opening early for those of us who use the early train :P

There's a train before 6?!
We just open when station opens, assumed that's first train :O

flyingsnail

bennyl10 wrote: »

There's a train before 6?!
We just open when station opens, assumed that's first train :O

Monday to Saturday first train to Dublin is 05:30, station is open at this time just not the ticket office.

highlydebased

Berty wrote:

You can get the same quality coffee on board the train.

Hilarious :-P

mossym

surprised at peoples opinions about starbucks. fair enough it's better than the muck you'd have gotten in the station previously. but it's not like their coffee is anything special, in fact it's not that great at all, much nicer options around town.

lived in the states where it was tougher to avoid it given the number of it, will use starbucks when nothing better available, but the way people are so excited you'd swear there were no good coffee options in town already. place is full of coffee shops

Swiper the fox

mossym wrote: »

surprised at peoples opinions about starbucks. fair enough it's better than the muck you'd have gotten in the station previously. but it's not like their coffee is anything special, in fact it's not that great at all, much nicer options around town.

lived in the states where it was tougher to avoid it given the number of it, will use starbucks when nothing better available, but the way people are so excited you'd swear there were no good coffee options in town already. place is full of coffee shops

I heard there was a queue outside when Costa opened in town, that is a sad indictment of where we're at. Starbucks does run of the mill coffee but will damage all the smaller places.

Jofspring

Haven't really seen too many opinions about the coffee being amazing just lots of people glad to see another big franchise opening in the city and bringing jobs.

I've actually seen more people complain about Starbucks and the coffee and give it plaudits.

Personally I think it's grand, not ****e but nothing special. Will probably buy some coffee there over time.

Cartman78

Jofspring wrote: »

Haven't really seen too many opinions about the coffee being amazing just lots of people glad to see another big franchise opening in the city and bringing jobs.

I've actually seen more people complain about Starbucks and the coffee and give it plaudits.

Personally I think it's grand, not ****e but nothing special. Will probably buy some coffee there over time.

Exactly....I think it's more of a positive economic indicator/status symbol for the city more than anything else tbh.

I'm not too bothered about the actual coffee they serve but would welcome their arrival in the city nonetheless.

mossym

ah okay. maybe i'm misreading the excitement about more jobs as people not being able to wait to have a steaming hot cup of starbucks,

zulutango

Jofspring wrote: »

Haven't really seen too many opinions about the coffee being amazing just lots of people glad to see another big franchise opening in the city and bringing jobs.

To what extent are they bringing jobs or displacing existing jobs though?

magma69

Cartman78 wrote: »

Exactly....I think it's more of a positive economic indicator/status symbol for the city more than anything else tbh.

I'm not too bothered about the actual coffee they serve but would welcome their arrival in the city nonetheless.

Average coffee. Expensive. And the way they've saturated other cities is horrible imo. In the US and Canada everywhere you look there's one. Sucks the soul out of the city when this happens imo.

I won't be going to Starbucks anyhow.

Berty

Starbucks like others make more money on their non over the counter products like. Take Butlers in the Crescent. They've all those side products, gifts sets etc and Starbucks often say they make most of their profits from non coffee related products.

Here's just an example from Amazon UK

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=starbucks&sprefix=starbucks%2Caps%2C192

bennyl10

zulutango wrote: »

To what extent are they bringing jobs or displacing existing jobs though?

Little bit biased in this debate admittedly, but as it stands, starbucks have given 12 previously unemployed people in this city new ones..

That 12 will rise to 25 by the end of next month, with presumably more to follow on!

It also is a world renowned brand opening in the city, a brand which there has been calls for to open here for years! A lot of the small independent coffee shops(like im a massive fan of arabica) will have loyal customers.. Like the appearance of a S.B doesn't magically mean these coffee shops are going away or will fail, blaming them for it is i think silly..

Like costa not gone of the same real treatment really.. And they are another big corporation who sell coffee..

Mr E

.... and yet the Stormy Teacup closes on September 12th.

Swings and roundabouts I know, but I'd prefer a chain of indigenous coffee shops over a chain of Starbucks any day.

Tompatrick

Mr E wrote: »

.... and yet the Stormy Teacup closes on September 12th.

Swings and roundabouts I know, but I'd prefer a chain of indigenous coffee shops over a chain of Starbucks any day.

Where was that based and how long was it open for?

flyingsnail

Tompatrick wrote: »

Where was that based and how long was it open for?

It is in foxes bow, I think they were open for about a year.

dunworth1

Mr E wrote:

Swings and roundabouts I know, but I'd prefer a chain of indigenous coffee shops over a chain of Starbucks any day.

But isn't more likely that Starbucks will stay open much longer than a random independent shop.

Mr E

Random independent shop with GOOD COFFEE.

Cookiemunster

flyingsnail wrote: »

It is in foxes bow, I think they were open for about a year.

In fairness, it's up an alley off Foxes Bow. It's a terrible location for a coffee shop. There is no passing trade. Unless you knew about it you'd never even know it was there.