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Winstons in Bray Closing.

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    #2
    foxy06
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    Great minds. Was just about to post that. I've heard boots are taking it over. Anyone heard the same?


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    Son of Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭Son of Jack


    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

    I am gutted to hear this.

    Winstons in Bray is just the kind of shop one needs in boom times or a recession.

    We have been shopping there since the Year Dot. (well it feels like that. Have been in Bray over twenty years)

    I often felt like saying to the chap I reckon must be the owner

    'Thanks, I have reared my family and kept them dressed because Winstons.'

    I don't know how I'd have managed otherwise.

    As recently as last Saturday I went in and stocked up and as always was

    pleasantly surprised at the cost.

    Lovely, lovely, helpful and friendly staff in there too.

    Boots!!! no use to me.

    Good value make up shop at corner already.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Shocking news. The town is going to turn into a ghost town at this rate.


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    Tippex
    Registered Users Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭Tippex


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Shocking news. The town is going to turn into a ghost town at this rate.

    Going to? tbh its been a ghost town for years.


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    brayblue24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭brayblue24


    'Thanks, I have reared my family and kept them dressed because Winstons.'

    I don't know how I'd have managed otherwise.
    [/QUOTE]

    Remarkably this was quoted, verbatim, in this week's Bray People, and attributed to "a shopper who had just left the sale"


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    Son of Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭Son of Jack


    Son of Jack wrote: »

    We have been shopping there since the Year Dot.
    ...I have reared my family and kept them dressed because Winstons.'

    I don't know how I'd have managed otherwise.

    Well spotted BrayBlue.

    I noticed this too ... and I haven't even been into the sale yet!

    Just goes to show you can't believe everything you read in the paper.

    Shame though that Winstons is closing :(


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    foxy06
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    Well spotted! I knew I had read that quote already:rolleyes:


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    beatrice33
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    I heard Boots are going to open there. Anyone know this is true?


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    Annasopra
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    beatrice33 wrote: »
    I heard Boots are going to open there. Anyone know this is true?

    Everyone I've been talking to has heard this so I think so

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    gerbilgranny
    Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭gerbilgranny


    Planning Permission notice on the front of the shop now from Boots re new signage, etc.


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    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    At least it's not another pawnshop or god forbid, another Olde Fashionede Sweete Shoppe


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    Ophiopogon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Ophiopogon


    B0jangles wrote: »
    At least it's not another pawnshop or god forbid, another Olde Fashionede Sweete Shoppe

    Well yeah but there is already over 5 pharmacy/chemsits in Bray, it not like we needed another one.


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    FluffyCat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭FluffyCat


    Ophiopogon wrote: »
    Well yeah but there is already over 5 pharmacy/chemsits in Bray, it not like we needed another one.

    Especially since a lot of stuff in boots is much more expensive than the local pharmacies!! I saw a suncream in boots for €11.99 and the same one in a local place of €2.50:eek: And is just for starters.

    I wont be shopping there anyway!


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    LEIN
    Moderators Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    Ophiopogon wrote: »
    Well yeah but there is already over 5 pharmacy/chemsits in Bray, it not like we needed another one.

    You should check out Wexford town! I couldn't believe the amount down there.


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    JohnDigital
    Registered Users Posts: 513 ✭✭✭JohnDigital


    Ophiopogon wrote: »
    Well yeah but there is already over 5 pharmacy/chemsits in Bray, it not like we needed another one.

    There is far more than 5, a quick tot in my head makes it at least 12 and I'm sure there's probably more.


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