Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland?

jill_valentine

Is it the grimy lino? The constant, arhythmically blinky flourescent lights? Perhaps it's the miserable looking pastry or the general, all permeating sense of despair that radiates from each and every staff member into the very metal of the shelves themselves? Maybe it's simply the invariable, almost visibly tangible sense of big-fish-in-a-small-pond lunacy all the supervisors always generate.

Regardless, it simply wouldn't be a Dunnes Stores experience without that nagging, leaching, unfailing sense of melancholy characteristic to every branch.

The question is - which is the most depressing Dunnes Stores in Ireland? Which is the one Dunnes that makes you want to close one of the freezers after you, or cry right into a handful of Cuisine De France?

Personally, I'm inclined to suggest the one in Stephen's Green. I think it's that "abandoned fallout shelter" vibe that really gives it the edge, but I want to know what you guys think.

MickySticks

Tom Dunne

RichieC

The one in the Square is quite chipper!

El Weirdo

Ballina.

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efb

SSG is pretty awful alright, Wexford- Redmond Sq is just a dump imho too much crap in too little space and the floor is many different floor types- none clean!

KeithM89_old

The one with Irelands' smallest lingerie department.

cocoshovel

Thats a lovely poem

alie

Nutgrove.

44leto

Dunnes is dunnes and hardly Brown Thomas.

They serves their purpose.

ballsymchugh

thank your lucky stars they bought out H.williams, who had bought out crazy prices... who had bought out tesco after their first foray into the irish market..

Chain_reaction

44leto wrote: »

Dunnes is dunnes and hardly Brown Thomas.

They serves their purpose.

Am I the only one who thinks Dunnes have became dearer over the years?

Remember years ago when kids were ashamed to be seen in Dunnes clothes etc.

Anyways...

The Dunnes in Enniscorthy before they opened the new one.

I hope someone else remembers that... The one in St.Stephen's green was like Harrod's food hall compared to this horror of a grocery section.

mackg

How could you forget the music? Maybe I'm especially sensitive as I worked there for quite a while and it slowly drove me to the brink of insanity. Don't know where they get it, exactly the same songs pumped through every store and it is the most tuneless miserable crap ever recorded.

Pherekydes

The one in the Swan centre is a dump. And the one in Clondalkin.

admiralofthefleet

anyone remember the downstairs in the old dunnes on north earl street? it looked like a nazi bomb shelter

starviewadams

Out of all the Dunnes Stores that I've worked in,the North Earl Street and Rathmines stores were the most depressing.Kilnamanagh isn't much better either.

Kylo Ren

jill_valentine wrote: »

Personally, I'm inclined to suggest the one in Stephen's Green. I think it's that "abandoned fallout shelter" vibe that really gives it the edge, but I want to know what you guys think.

And they are always out of Nuka Cola.

Captain Darling

ballsymchugh wrote: »

thank your lucky stars they bought out H.williams, who had bought out crazy prices... who had bought out tesco after their first foray into the irish market..

It's a shop, within a shop, within a shop.

Johro

Yeah coz Tesco is fun fun fun..

Captain Darling

Captain Darling wrote: »

It's a shop, within a shop, within a shop.

Inshoption

Kylo Ren

Dunnes is for old people anyway.

JONJO THE MISER

I love Dunnes, there layout there food etc, if your looking for a depressing cheap and skanky supermarket i suggest you go visit any Tesco.

Kevski

Dunnes in Crumlin Shopping Centre is a fairly depressing spot.

Caraville

Is the Tesco in that crappy little shopping centre in Roscrea closed since the big new Tesco opened? That was without doubt THE most depressing supermarket in Ireland.

Although to be fair, Roscrea in general is depressing so it just fitted in with the general air of the place. As someone described to me before, Roscrea is both figuratively and literally a hole- all roads out of it go uphill.

KKkitty

KeithM89 wrote: »

The one with Irelands' smallest lingerie department.

BRAvo for that post Keith. Of corset's true in Dunnes you'd need to be a big suspender sorry spender these days

skinny90

jill_valentine wrote: »

Regardless, it simply wouldn't be a Dunnes Stores experience without that nagging, leaching, unfailing sense of melancholy characteristic to every branch.
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Op by the sounds of it you have never been to lidl

Jimoslimos

Is the one in the Ilac centre still open? Mind you that whole place is depressing.:(

humberklog

skinny90 wrote: »

Op by the sounds of it you have never been to lidl

Nothing wrong with Lidl.

Farf better than any other BigBrand shop.

RayM

jill_valentine wrote: »

The question is - which is the most depressing Dunnes Stores in Ireland? Which is the one Dunnes that makes you want to close one of the freezers after you, or cry right into a handful of Cuisine De France?

Dunnes Stores in Portlaoise is particularly grim.

IsThisIt???

Most depressing Dunnes in Ireland?

The one I work in!

NufcNavan

RayM wrote: »

Dunnes Stores in Portlaoise is particularly grim.

Fits in well with the rest of the town so.

Azures

El Weirdo wrote: »

Ballina.

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I agree - that description was pure Ballina!

KKkitty

humberklog wrote: »

skinny90 wrote: »

Op by the sounds of it you have never been to lidl

Nothing wrong with Lidl.

Farf better than any other BigBrand shop.

Lidl think of the little people with their shelf heights anyway. Often been in Dunnes and had to nearly climb up on a shelf to get to something on the top shelf.

Where To

KeithM89 wrote: »

The one with Irelands' smallest lingerie department.

And what may I ask is wrong with small lingerie?

nibtrix

Kevski wrote: »

Dunnes in Crumlin Shopping Centre is a fairly depressing spot.

This one! Does it still have the grocery, chilled section, offie and fruit&veg section in different parts of the shopping centre, with different tills in each one so you have to queue and pay four times to do one weekly shop?

NufcNavan

Where To wrote: »

And what may I ask is wrong with small lingerie?

Whoosh!

Dotsie~tmp

Not even a fuking contest. Dunnes Finglas South.

http://c1.dmlimg.com/2e5c93fc5fcb277c88837e18ff8cc045c63cf17f33b26f0b416831f3fbfd828e.jpg

Faith+1

The one in Finglas, near cappagh road is a right sh*thole.

wilkie2006

This thread needs a "Pics or GTFO"

skinny90

Does anyone not think that lidl is well very boring and bland,no music or noise at all,don't get me wrong I go there on a weekly basis for certain foods but I find the staff very depressed/unmotivative.i know I'd crack up working there

KungPao

NufcNavan wrote: »

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

blah88

Worked in the Dunnes in the Swan Centre for about a month recently. Was grand except for the manager. Never wanted to punch someone so badly in my life.

fasttalkerchat

Bernard

fasttalkerchat

KungPao wrote: »

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Corruptedmorals

I worked in one mentioned here for years, its much better than most. Its a flagship and gets lots of attention...theres so many much more hideous, ugly and depressing ones. In town alone there's north earl street and the old ilac one with the grocery, now they are absolute holes.

The staff are miserable because they're not nice to work for. Either you work in a grim depressing one where bad managers are sent or you work in a fancy flagship mental one that has head office in all the time and a lot of pressure and stress. Bad all round.

Pdfile

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

anyone remember the downstairs in the old dunnes on north earl street? it looked like a nazi bomb shelter

hey ! the nazi's would of dunne well to have something like that !

Thefirestarter

Dotsie~tmp wrote: »

Not even a fuking contest. Dunnes Finglas South.

http://c1.dmlimg.com/2e5c93fc5fcb277c88837e18ff8cc045c63cf17f33b26f0b416831f3fbfd828e.jpg

Faith+1 wrote: »

The one in Finglas, near cappagh road is a right sh*thole.

http://g.co/maps/8ehw6

It's probably the worse supermarket I've ever been in. That part of Finglas South is criminally undeveloped, socially and culturally.

charlemont

Ballyvolane Cork.

The one in Ballina was perhaps the most depressing place on earth. I think it was actually at one time called the dirtiest Dunnes stores in Ireland. They gave it a bit if a face lift a few years back but it remains a pretty grim place. I worked there years back and at Christmas was told I was on hygiene duty which is just a fancy name for sweeping up. I'll never forget the first day when I looked under the shelves and saw a good decades worth of crap that has been swept under. There was 3 inches of dust, mouldy food and other treasures to be found.

jill_valentine

I definitely don't find Lidl or Aldi as depressing - they're at least kept to a reasonable standard of cleanliness. And I don't think Tesco are quite as awful to work for, judging by the general demeanour of their staff.

I've never worked for Dunnes, but I've never known anybody to last there longer than three months without crying at work at least once. I have terrific sympathy for the staff, but the managers seem to be completely psychotic and I think it's definitely reflected in the standard of the place.

smokedeels

Tesco is worse, they have that awful logo too, it looks like the away strip of an Association Football team playing in the Blue Square Northern League.

I have a Dunnes brand cardigan somebody bought me that I'm quite fond of, so I'll defend them.

jill_valentine

I'm alright with clothesy Dunnes, at least they usually have some source of natural light. But foody Dunnes is just a haze of sadness and broken tiles and mysterious strips of tape on the floor.