Limerick Businesses Closed V 2.0 [Mod note post 1]

rainbowdash · 07-06-2012 12:22pm

mossym wrote: »

can't say it is really surprising. couple of miles radius out there you have B&Q, Wickes, Homebase and Atlantic Homecare..there cannot be the business for all of them

And also Chadwicks, Heiton Buckleys and Brooks, although I think <snip> is closed.

DaveNoCheese · 07-06-2012 1:51pm

Chemist in arthurs quay has a sign stating their closing 6th july. Half price aftershaves / perfumes too

FutureGuy · 07-06-2012 2:48pm

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Chemist in arthurs quay has a sign stating their closing 6th july. Half price aftershaves / perfumes too

Shame. They closed about a year ago but reopened again.

DaveNoCheese · 07-06-2012 3:01pm

FutureGuy wrote: »

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Chemist in arthurs quay has a sign stating their closing 6th july. Half price aftershaves / perfumes too

Shame. They closed about a year ago but reopened again.

Not even, was around xmas I think. They've been trading through it but knew this day was coming. Not much reason.for people to visit arthurs quay these days...

TheGimp · 07-06-2012 7:53pm

Noticed the t-shirt printing place upstairs there has gone too. Amazed it lasted all these years to be honest. The food area upstairs always appears to be empty too, especially the wok grill place.

Clareman · 07-06-2012 8:19pm

Reminder folks that speculation into the status of a business isn't allowed in here as it can have a detrimental effect on a business, unless you are sure a business is closed please don't speculate.

bigpink · 07-06-2012 8:27pm

Is Arthurs Quay gone that quiet these days?

vkid · 07-06-2012 9:03pm

Not surprised really..there is feck all in AQ worth visiting imo.

Berty · 07-06-2012 9:07pm

Considering the council are due to take leasehold of it, then it can only get worse.

Itsdacraic · 07-06-2012 9:14pm

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

FutureGuy wrote: »

DaveNoCheese wrote: »

Chemist in arthurs quay has a sign stating their closing 6th july. Half price aftershaves / perfumes too

Shame. They closed about a year ago but reopened again.

Not even, was around xmas I think. They've been trading through it but knew this day was coming. Not much reason.for people to visit arthurs quay these days...

I remember a spokesman from Arthur's quay saying that they were full occupancy not so long ago.

The wok place is good value. It's not high class or anything but no worse than most of the other chinese places around town.

Kess73 · 08-06-2012 5:23pm

Beer Baron wrote: »

Considering the council are due to take leasehold of it, then it can only get worse.

Maybe they will build the skywalk that the mayor was talking up not too long ago as being built to connect the Opera centre to Arthurs quay :rolleyes:

CiaranMT · 08-06-2012 6:26pm

TheGimp wrote: »

Noticed the t-shirt printing place upstairs there has gone too. Amazed it lasted all these years to be honest. The food area upstairs always appears to be empty too, especially the wok grill place.

The one facing you at the top of the stairs is alright, but funnily enough the last time I was in there the whole place was packed.

source · 11-06-2012 8:16am

Chadwicks staff were called in for a meeting this morning, they're closing on Friday. Heard it from someone in there in the last few minutes.

Louche Lad · 11-06-2012 9:10am

CiaranMT wrote: »

The one facing you at the top of the stairs is alright, but funnily enough the last time I was in there the whole place was packed.

I was upstairs at Arthurs Quay 10 days ago and it was busy.

Kess73 · 11-06-2012 10:18am

source wrote: »

Chadwicks staff were called in for a meeting this morning, they're closing on Friday. Heard it from someone in there in the last few minutes.

That was announced by their parent company last week.

clappyhappy · 11-06-2012 10:24am

Such a shame to see chadwicks and so many other places closing. The place is really becoming a ghost town.

source · 11-06-2012 12:00pm

Kess73 wrote: »

That was announced by their parent company last week.

Wasn't that Atlantic Homecare, last week?

Kess73 · 11-06-2012 12:50pm

source wrote: »

Wasn't that Atlantic Homecare, last week?

No I am not talking about Atlantic Homecare's parent company.

Atlantic Homecare are part of the same group as Woodies.

Chadwicks are part of a different group.

source · 11-06-2012 1:15pm

Kess73 wrote: »

No I am not talking about Atlantic Homecare's parent company.

Atlantic Homecare are part of the same group as Woodies.

Chadwicks are part of a different group.

Fair enough, it's just that when I was in Chadwicks this morning, the staff had just been told, and they said that they weren't expecting it at all.

Butterfly25 · 11-06-2012 1:54pm

Kess73 wrote: »

No I am not talking about Atlantic Homecare's parent company.

Atlantic Homecare are part of the same group as Woodies.

Chadwicks are part of a different group.

Atlantic Homecare and Chadwicks are all part of the Grafton Group along with Woodies and Heaton Buckley

http://www.graftonplc.com/ops/ire_merchanting.html

Kess73 · 11-06-2012 1:57pm

source wrote: »

Fair enough, it's just that when I was in Chadwicks this morning, the staff had just been told, and they said that they weren't expecting it at all.

The regular staff did not know, or at least most may not have known for sure, but the decision was discussed and announced by higher ups last week.

Either way it is still the same result for the people affected.

Kess73 · 11-06-2012 2:04pm

Butterfly25 wrote: »

Atlantic Homecare and Chadwicks are all part of the Grafton Group along with Woodies and Heaton Buckley

http://www.graftonplc.com/ops/ire_merchanting.html

Atlantic Homecare and Woodies are part of the retailing group, Chadwicks are not.

Chadwicks are part of the merchanting group.

That's why I said I was not talking about the parent company, which they all share, but rather the groups.

Atlantic's debt etc was being absorbed by the retailing group, and Chadwicks was being absorbed by it's own group, and the talk I am on about from last week relates to stuff said in relation to the Mechanting group and where stock, debt etc was going to be reallocated within that group.

Apols if I was vague or otherwise in how I put it across.

nipper banks · 15-06-2012 3:56pm

The High Court is expected to appoint the Examiner for Atlantic Homecare today. This will precipitate the closure of "at least five stores" including the one in Limerick (as well as Liffey Valley, Pouladuff, Wellpark in Galway and Atlantic Newbridge).
Has anyone heard if they are closing other Chadwick stores as well as the one in Limerick?

Kess73 · 15-06-2012 4:39pm

nipper banks wrote: »

The High Court is expected to appoint the Examiner for Atlantic Homecare today. This will precipitate the closure of "at least five stores" including the one in Limerick (as well as Liffey Valley, Pouladuff, Wellpark in Galway and Atlantic Newbridge).
Has anyone heard if they are closing other Chadwick stores as well as the one in Limerick?

There was a union rep on the radio the other day (Wed or Thurs) saying that a number of their outlets had been closed over the past 18 months, and more may be closing in the near future.