Abercrombie opening confirmed!

liffeylite

Great news for jobs and retail in the city. Abercrombie have confirmed the opening of the college green store for this year. Should be a fair amount of jobs for this, and a boost to the city as shoppers descend from all over the country :-) love it or loathe it, its good news for the local economy.

bb1234567

liffeylite wrote: »

Great news for jobs and retail in the city. Abercrombie have confirmed the opening of the college green store for this year. Should be a fair amount of jobs for this, and a boost to the city as shoppers descend from all over the country :-) love it or loathe it, its good news for the local economy.

Ha thats weird I just came onto boards to post a thread asking if anyone knew when abercrombie was opening:p Thanks anyway great news!:)

leggit

Hopefully won't have an adverse effect on the ques outside Hollister in Dundrum!

irishguy

liffeylite wrote: »

Great news for jobs and retail in the city. Abercrombie have confirmed the opening of the college green store for this year. Should be a fair amount of jobs for this, and a boost to the city as shoppers descend from all over the country :-) love it or loathe it, its good news for the local economy.

Do you have a link?

fishtastico

Which building will they be operating out of?

bb1234567

fishtastico wrote: »

Which building will they be operating out of?

The old habitat building in college green.

conno16

i heard they are renting out the ground floor of the central bank

fishtastico

Wow, it'll be a big one then. And with a Starbucks across the road. It'll be the spoiled teenager epicentre of Ireland. Great news for Dublin though

super_furry

Ugh, well at least it'll be funny to laugh at the lemmings queuing outside.

fishtastico

conno16 wrote: »

i heard they are renting out the ground floor of the central bank

Occupy Dame Street would be thrilled

bc dub

fishtastico wrote: »

spoiled teenager epicentre

Great news for Dublin though

The Scientician

liffeylite wrote: »

Great news for jobs and retail in the city. Abercrombie have confirmed the opening of the college green store for this year. Should be a fair amount of jobs for this, and a boost to the city as shoppers descend from all over the country :-) love it or loathe it, its good news for the local economy.

Do shops like that really create jobs though? Do other similar stores not suffer and have to let go of staff in these straitened times? I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely curious whether stores like that are that much of a benefit for anyone other than their shareholders and senior management.

conno16

soon everyone will wear the A&F and/or hollister uniform..
this evil plan is about to conquer ireland, its latest victim

liffeylite

irishguy wrote: »

liffeylite wrote: »

Great news for jobs and retail in the city. Abercrombie have confirmed the opening of the college green store for this year. Should be a fair amount of jobs for this, and a boost to the city as shoppers descend from all over the country :-) love it or loathe it, its good news for the local economy.

Do you have a link?

If you google abercrombie results feb 15th 2012 you will find a press release. Its in there. They are opening in hong kong munich dublin and 2 other cities.

I would say its a very real creator of jobs. I dont think other companies particularly will suffer as it will be offset by the extra footfall of customers the store will bring.

That area of dublin will be busier and the shops around will benefit i am sure :-)

stovelid

The site will have more twat per square-foot than The Coombe.

Dodge

The Scientician wrote: »

Do shops like that really create jobs though? Do other similar stores not suffer and have to let go of staff in these straitened times? I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely curious whether stores like that are that much of a benefit for anyone other than their shareholders and senior management.

I'm generally sceptical when companies claim things like that in pressers but in this case I think they might be true. If its seen as a 'destination shop' (for want of a better term) then it'll encourage foot traffic and usually help shops in that vicinity. I think the Disney shop has helped Grafton Street for example.

Even if a large US brand opening here gives the appearance of vibrancy in the city centre, it might help the all hallowed 'customer sentiment'

Paparazzo

A shop opening in dublin city centre is hardly amazing news for jobs. It's like having a thread because a new burger king is opening. And a quick google, this was news almost a year ago at least. link
Woo hoo, posh kids now just don't talk like preppy rich american kids, they can dress like them too.

Dodge

Paparazzo wrote: »

A shop opening in dublin city centre is hardly amazing news for jobs. It's like having a thread because a new burger king is opening. And a quick google, this was news almost a year ago at least. link
Woo hoo, posh kids now just don't talk like preppy rich american kids, they can dress like them too.

Regardless of your views on this shop, comparing it the opening of a burger king is completely off

Surely you see that even on this thread some are excited by it. Doesn't that tel its own story?

And I say that as some one who thinks its a horrendous shop. But each to their own...

bb1234567

Paparazzo wrote: »

A shop opening in dublin city centre is hardly amazing news for jobs. It's like having a thread because a new burger king is opening. And a quick google, this was news almost a year ago at least. link
Woo hoo, posh kids now just don't talk like preppy rich american kids, they can dress like them too.

I'd say it could actually create a lot of jobs and will increase footfall down in that area hugely. I remember reading an article about hollister opening in dundrum and it said over 250 people would be employed full and part time by the store. And bear in mind hollister dd is fairly small, and this abercrombie store will be considerably larger and spread over a few floors so I'm guessing this new store could employ anywhere up to 400 full and partime jobs maybe more. No matter what way you look at it, this is good for the economy.

Paparazzo

The difference between how many people could/would be employed is usually a lot greater than the amount of people that actually get employed.

Not saying it's a bad thing though.

mikedragon32

If it's anything like Hollister, I'd expect sales of night vision goggles to go through the roof!

Cannot believe the queues of A&F drones outside these stores. Marketing is indeed a powerful tool.

A V A

now every single person's going to be wearing Abercrombie , snapping!!! i have the fragrance feirce and when every single girl smells it ,they love it, cause they are not use to smelling it in Ireland so its a new one :P when this opens , every single bloke will be wearing this day in day out and it wont be as special :P:D

i see people wearing holister all the time, i remember you would only see a few select people wearing it cause they just got back from the states

and it will be a "d4" dream , triners , then Abercrombie and starbucks across the way. . . . . i know where ill be avoiding :P

leggit

Dodge wrote: »

Regardless of your views on this shop, comparing it the opening of a burger king is completely off

Surely you see that even on this thread some are excited by it. Doesn't that tel its own story?

And I say that as some one who thinks its a horrendous shop. But each to their own...

I'd be much more excited by a burger king opening....

Have you seen the gobsh*tes queing, that's right QUEING, outside Holister in Dundrum! The women that work in there are great though (think it's a prerequisite to getting the job that you have to be gorgeous?) so it's not all bad news for this opening Might even pop in for a gander...

and whoever said this could create 400 jobs.... can I buy some drugs from you?

Paparazzo

leggit wrote: »

and whoever said this could create 400 jobs.... can I buy some drugs from you?

Some hotel was opening down in Tipp somewhere, it was supposed to create 300 jobs and it actually created 14 jobs.

joeperry

I think it's good news for Dublin,sure wont there be country folk coming from far and wide to visit the shop?

EdenHazard

Seen some twat I know write on hollister wall a while back 'your about 4 years too late' got loads of likes, 4 years late for what? I don't know if he meant as in that he knew it was a fad or if he was unaware of this but now had jumped on jack willis bandwagon

Bad Panda

stovelid wrote: »

The site will have more twat per square-foot than The Coombe.

Too fat to fit into their clothes?

stovelid

Bad Panda wrote: »

Too fat to fit into their clothes?

Too non-cunty.

brambo

leggit wrote: »

and whoever said this could create 400 jobs.... can I buy some drugs from you?

I was thinking the same but according to this, up to 300 jobs could be created.

bb1234567

leggit wrote: »

I'd be much more excited by a burger king opening....

Have you seen the gobsh*tes queing, that's right QUEING, outside Holister in Dundrum! The women that work in there are great though (think it's a prerequisite to getting the job that you have to be gorgeous?) so it's not all bad news for this opening Might even pop in for a gander...

and whoever said this could create 400 jobs.... can I buy some drugs from you?

Ye thats was me who said that and theres nothing wrong with that, hollister dundrum apparently employs 250 people full and part time so this abercrombie store which will be considerably larger and housed over 3 floors I think could well employ about 350 people full and part time.( 400 was a little over the top)

bb1234567

brambo wrote: »

I was thinking the same but according to this, up to 300 jobs could be created.

''It is likely that the store will be opening during the Christmas 2012 Abercrombie & Fitch season'':eek:
Is that a joke?? It was meant to open this xmas but they just got a little delayed, but now there nearly kitted the store out but theyre waiting nearly another entire year to open in xmas 2012?!?

Ben D Bus

bb1234567 wrote: »

The old habitat building in college green.

Great! I'll get to hang around outside looking like I'm one of the cool kids when I'm actually waiting for the 40 bus to Ballyfermot

marketty

Terrible news. If hollister and Abercrombie are both available in Ireland how will people know I HAVE BEEN TO AMERICA?

efb

Are the rejects from Tallafornia going to be working here? :shudder:

Jack lemmon

@marketty.
Haha, I like this comment. Thou I would think a $90 top in their US stores will probably cost €160 here. That's if their other European stores are anything to go by, eg London. In saying that there's nearly always a large queue there and a&f sales are well up last quarter.

yabadabado

Jack lemmon wrote: »

@marketty.
Haha, I like this comment. Thou I would think a $90 top in their US stores will probably cost €160 here. That's if their other European stores are anything to go by, eg London. In saying that there's nearly always a large queue there and a&f sales are well up last quarter.

If there is that much of a price difference it would be cheaper to fly to America than buy a few items in the shop here.is it a big brand in the US?I was in one in New York and it wasn't busy nor did I see many people wearing their clothes while I was there.

liffeylite

bb1234567 wrote: »

brambo wrote: »

I was thinking the same but according to this, up to 300 jobs could be created.

''It is likely that the store will be opening during the Christmas 2012 Abercrombie & Fitch season'':eek:
Is that a joke?? It was meant to open this xmas but they just got a little delayed, but now there nearly kitted the store out but theyre waiting nearly another entire year to open in xmas 2012?!?

I think the xmas period means sept october. Thats the business quarter. Still, id have hoped they could have opened it in the summer but we shouldnt complain about 300 jobs, even if we have to wait until october. :-)

Jack lemmon

@yabadabado
Abercrombie & Fitch is popular with wealthy college kids in some states but not at all in others. It's still expensive even over there, $90 hoodie when you can get a hoodie in Target for say 10 bucks. They got some bad press over the yrs for basically only recruiting 'models' as floor staff n their brand is favoured by gay guys so this put some conservative guys off the brand(thou I think this may have passed over now) American eagle has become very popular.

Polygon_window

i despise this brand!!

cson

They make some good quality stuff which represents great value at the USD price especially if you catch the sale prices. I've a great brown fur lined winter coat from Abercrombie that I got on sale @ $60. Really is fantastic value.

But at the prices they charge in Dundrum and in London? No thank you.

Jack lemmon

cson wrote: »

They make some good quality stuff which represents great value at the USD price especially if you catch the sale prices. I've a great brown fur lined winter coat from Abercrombie that I got on sale @ $60. Really is fantastic value.

But at the prices they charge in Dundrum and in London? No thank you.

Can't complain about the quality that's for sure it wears n washes well. I got a heavy hoodie on sale in Dallas for $13, fantastic value. But full price even in the US is high. Great their coming to Dublin, least the option is there for ppl n the employment.

teddansonswig

work being done today on college green
the space inside looks amazing!
no logos yet tho.....

A V A

where exactly is going

EdenHazard

I kinda like the jeans but they'll be mad expensive here I'd say

teddansonswig

is going ex-habitat building, ex boi circa 1970s

Mr Simpson

teddansonswig wrote: »

is going ex-habitat building, ex boi circa 1970s

Reduce the brightness on your monitor to its lowest setting and you'll get a fair idea of how it will look once it opens.

phasers

Aren't A&F always in the news for treating their employees badly? Or they only hire models or something?

Anyway I'm sure it'll do well, everyone needs an overpriced hoodie with a big logo on the front.

Coriolanus

British firm, pyramid interiors doing the shop fit. Was talking to a few of them there. Nice number, flights, accom and living expenses on top of wages for the duration.
Seems silly to pay out extra when there's chippies going a begging already here. I guess a&f have used them before so the devil you know.

DebDynamite

teddansonswig wrote: »

is going ex-habitat building, ex boi circa 1970s

Not be pedantic, but it was a BOI branch even into the 2000s.

Don't worry about finding it, just follow the smell of aftershave and that will lead you to it

blondielocks

Works being done to the front of the Habitat Store today too! Regardless of how many jobs it may or may not create, it's nice to see that building finally being occupied again, and at least Abercrombie will decorate it well and maintain it. Though the prices for A&F are extortionate outside the States, it's certainly got the market to buy here, DD is always shrouded with flocks of teens lurking around Hollister, and leaving with plenty of bags in tow. I'm not a frenzied fanatic of them, but their stuff washes and wears well, they've got some good jeans and fragrances. I'm wearing a hoodie I bought in there 4 years ago and it's still perfect! They'll do well!

true

Nevore wrote: »

British firm, pyramid interiors doing the shop fit. Was talking to a few of them there. Nice number, flights, accom and living expenses on top of wages for the duration.
Seems silly to pay out extra when there's chippies going a begging already here. I guess a&f have used them before so the devil you know.

This American owned business will probably be employing a few locals, many on the minimum wage or less. Probably a few good looking Poles too. And the profits, if any, will leave the country. The shareholders are abroad, and you can bet your bottom dollar the clothes are made in low cost countries where living standards are minimal and people there are lucky to have clothes at all.
If this new shop is successful, our locally owned clothes shops will not sell as much and will let people go. Overall, I would not get overly excited about a new shop opening in Ireland. Big deal. There are thousands of clothes shops in the country already struggling.
I am not fooled by the hype of their pr company, but good luck to any business opening all the same in these times.

stovelid wrote: »

The site will have more twat per square-foot than The Coombe.

+1.