Hands off our Superquinn

Andy454

I just got Superquinn's promotional flyer in the door and shoved between the pages of beautiful food is a page long cut out for Supervalu range of generic groceries.
So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!
I will refuse to shop there if this changeover comes to pass - will u?

Drakares

What?

theSHU

It should be turned in a Mace. Mace is ace.

irishgeo

Andy454 wrote: »

I just got Superquinn's promotional flyer in the door and shoved between the pages of beautiful food is a page long cut out for Supervalu range of generic groceries.
So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!
I will refuse to shop there if this changeover comes to pass - will u?

if they didnt take it over superquinn would have gone bust.

biko

There's only 6 SQ outside the pale, none near me.
I'll just keep shopping where I usually go.

Esoteric_

So, you don't want Superquinn taken over by Super Valu.

Would you prefer that it closes completely, and everyone working there lose their jobs?

They can't magically make the money appear to save it without the takeover, so it's going to happen, petition or not.

faceman

Oh OP you aul scallywag. Have you ever bought anything in Supervalu?

Seriously the value there is super. As for Superquinn, only the, um, Quinn there is super. No comparison really.

thecatspjs

theSHU wrote: »

It should be turned in a Mace. Mace is ace.

The staff are terrible


































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crispyduck

Superquinn Blackrock is a dreadful store, the sooner they turn it into a Supervalu the better, I might shop there then

Fr_Dougal

If SuperValu had any cop on they'd have a Superquinn section inside every Supervalu store, best of both world for customers and they could leverage the brand equity of Superquinn for themselves with a view to rekindling it on a larger scale if the country ever returns to prosperity.

listermint

Supervalue already OWN superquinn.


This is just a rebrand,not a take over.

Theyve owned them since 2011!!!

Celly Smunt

Superquinn sausages are over-rated.

Yamanoto

Supervalu's an awful mediocre operation imo but the way some folks go on, you'd swear SQ was Fortnum & Mason.

LETHAL LADY

I love the Superquinn in Waterford for their fresh bread and fruit and veg, hope it doesn't change too much.:(

fro9etb8j5qsl2

Andy454 wrote: »

I just got Superquinn's promotional flyer in the door and shoved between the pages of beautiful food is a page long cut out for Supervalu range of generic groceries.
So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!
I will refuse to shop there if this changeover comes to pass - will u?

Why? So that they can go bust altogether? :rolleyes: If we really liked it just the way it is then there would have been enough customers to keep the company going but in my own opinion, Superquinn were ridiculously overpriced compared to other supermarket chains. Comparing Superquinn's 'beautiful food' to Supervalu's 'generic groceries' is downright snobby.

Balmed Out

What I cant understand is why ppl like their sausages so much, their very average. Clonakilty or Rosscarberry are so much better.

Cantona's Collars

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

I love the Superquinn in Waterford for their fresh bread and fruit and veg, hope it doesn't change too much.:(

It won't,the head of Supervalu said they are keeping certain produce (such as the sausages) and are planning to stock them in other Supervalu stores,all a panic over nothing really.

Annasopra

Balmed Out wrote: »

What I cant understand is why ppl like their sausages so much, their very average. Clonakilty or Rosscarberry are so much better.

I think years ago they were much nicer and for some strange reason people still think they taste the same

naughtysmurf

I've used Superquinn for years, switched earlier in the year to Dunnes to see if I could save a bit, couldn't see any difference in price really, back to Superquinn, went to a big enough Supervalu last week, there own brand stuff is inferior & wasn't impressed with their meat products so I hope their influence on Superquinn is minimal

Sir Humphrey Appleby

Andy454 wrote: »

I just got Superquinn's promotional flyer in the door and shoved between the pages of beautiful food is a page long cut out for Supervalu range of generic groceries.
So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!
I will refuse to shop there if this changeover comes to pass - will u?

Eh , no

Renegade Mechanic

Why cant they just keep the superquinn name and let it operate as a subsidiary company to supervalue?

Fr_Dougal

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Why cant they just keep the superquinn name and let it operate as a subsidiary company to supervalue?

Because they want to break into the Dublin market, build up the brand name there and not be seen as a regional brand.

michellie

Supervalu in Waterford is horrible, Manky shop and overpriced compaired to the likes of tesco and that. Did my shopping there once because the other half got vouchers at Christmas time in work, couldn't get half the stuff I needed and cost a fortune!

My first job was working part time in superquinn when it opened first, it was a great shop, great crack working there,sad to see so many changes in the place !

Christ the Redeemer

I'm in, Andy!

Pherekydes

zerks wrote: »

It won't,the head of Supervalu said they are keeping certain produce (such as the sausages) and are planning to stock them in other Supervalu stores,all a panic over nothing really.

My guess is that they will be calling them SQ sausages, but in reality they'll be SV.

The reason for this rebranding is to lower the standard of certain SQ goods. Makes them cheaper to produce. You can already see their salad bowls going downhill.

SV is crap and we'll probably transfer our custom to Lidl, Dunnes and Tesco. I'll bet others will too. The local SQ (Lucan) has been steadily going downhill since Musgraves bought it.

"Crowning the customer" becomes "Crowning the profits and fcuk the customer"

The_Valeyard

(William Wallace Impression)

You may take our Superquinn, but you will never take those sausages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tabnabs

Andy454 wrote: »

I just got Superquinn's promotional flyer in the door and shoved between the pages of beautiful food is a page long cut out for Supervalu range of generic groceries.
So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!
I will refuse to shop there if this changeover comes to pass - will u?

Two words OP, Superquinn Thrift. SQ have nothing to be proud about when it comes to generic produce.

NuckingFacker

I've done a load of work for sq - the food etc all comes from a warehouse much the same as every other warehouse, into a store with much the same shelves etc as every other supermarket and out through cash registers, much the same as every other store... someone remind me what the fuss was about again? Does a Brennans pan taste nicer if you buy it in a different store?

I never realy got the whole "I like such and such better" - I usually like the one that's nearest and has the crap I need. Is it a female thing to "prefer" shoping in one or the other? As for the whole "price" thing, I've a massive blind spot on that one - tends to be somwhere on the list of "things I pay attention to" four or five below "Twinks new production of"... I thought that was what God put down whingey people on earth for, to make sure the rest of us get good value when we're out shopping. Very useful they are too.

Annasopra

NuckingFacker wrote: »

I've done a load of work for sq - the food etc all comes from a warehouse much the same as every other warehouse, into a store with much the same shelves etc as every other supermarket and out through cash registers, much the same as every other store... someone remind me what the fuss was about again? Does a Brennans pan taste nicer if you buy it in a different store?

Superquinn bread tastes much nicer because it's freshly baked in store and not generic crap

Annasopra

Here you go OP

https://www.facebook.com/savesuperquinn
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Superquinn-from-Supervalu/357045707731987

NuckingFacker

mango salsa wrote: »

Superquinn bread tastes much nicer because it's freshly baked in store and not generic crap

Lucky for me so that I like Brennans. Generic crap ftw. Also, are you 100% sure about that? I always have visions of acres of Wheat growing in the car-park and a windmill churning out flour next to the wheelie bins. As opposed to a daily delivery of par-baked dough balls...generic ones.. or do sq make their own dough?

Annasopra

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Lucky for me so that I like Brennans. Generic crap ftw. Also, are you 100% sure about that? I always have visions of acres of Wheat growing in the car-park and a windmill churning out flour next to the wheelie bins. As opposed to a daily delivery of par-baked dough balls...generic ones.. or do sq make their own dough?

Their bigger stores make their own dough - everything is done on the premises for breads and cakes

NuckingFacker

mango salsa wrote: »

Their bigger stores make their own dough

Obviously the littler ones dragged them down to the point they were going bust

RayM

Andy454 wrote: »

So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!

It's not "our" Superquinn - it's Musgrave's. And they can do whatever they like with it. It's a shame to see the demise of a brand that people actually care about, but if it hadn't been taken over by Musgrave, it's quite likely that it would have disappeared two years ago. Also, my local Superquinn was pretty crap under the previous owners (who were just a bunch of property speculators, and didn't seem to give a damn about customer service). It seems to have improved a lot over the last couple of years.

Incidentally, while I like their bread and sausages, I'll be really pissed off if the microwaveable sticky toffee pudding that you get with their "€8 Meal Deal" disappears.

Pacing Mule

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Obviously the littler ones dragged them down to the point they were going bust

Parking aside the comedy part of the post believe it or not the little select stores were making money when the larger ones weren't.

djPSB

Like Superquinn but my God it takes an awful length to go through the checkouts.

I've often been in Superquinn when there's been a queue of 4 or 5 people at the open tills. Then each till would have a member of staff packing bags for customers while there were 3 or 4 other tills with nobody on them. Could never understand why they wouldn't put the bag packers on the empty tills and get the customers through quicker.

kneemos

djPSB wrote: »

Like Superquinn but my God it takes an awful length to go through the checkouts.

I've often been in Superquinn when there's been a queue of 4 or 5 people at the open tills. Then each till would have a member of staff packing bags for customers while there were 3 or 4 other tills with nobody on them. Could never understand why they wouldn't put the bag packers on the empty tills and get the customers through quicker.

Employing bag packers and baking their own bread?no wonder they went bust.

wazky

Andy454 wrote: »

So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!

Online petition!?

I'm chaining myself to the front door and going on hunger strike when it happens!

Who's with me?

Nippledragon

theSHU wrote: »

It should be turned in a Mace. Mace is ace.

with 'm' at the front...

AnonoBoy

Now is it just me or has anyone else noticed the overuse of the phrase 'Crazy Prices' in Tesco ads lately?

What gives with that?

Are they trying to tap into the Dublin nostalgia shopping market or what?

Oracle

djPSB wrote: »

Like Superquinn but my God it takes an awful length to go through the checkouts....

It's the chatting by the checkout operators, far worse in Superquinn than anywhere else.

Aidric

Andy454 wrote: »

I just got Superquinn's promotional flyer in the door and shoved between the pages of beautiful food is a page long cut out for Supervalu range of generic groceries.
So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!
I will refuse to shop there if this changeover comes to pass - will u?

You sound like an astute businessman to me. Have you contacted SuperValu with your proposal?

cml387

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Now is it just me or has anyone else noticed the overuse of the phrase 'Crazy Prices' in Tesco ads lately?

What gives with that?

Are they trying to tap into the Dublin nostalgia shopping market or what?

Eighties nostalgia. I always thought the dumping of the Quinnsworth name to become Crazy Prices was a mistake.Why, you might just as well have been shopping in Dunnes :eek:

Oracle

cml387 wrote: »

Eighties nostalgia. I always thought the dumping of the Quinnsworth name to become Crazy Prices was a mistake.Why, you might just as well have been shopping in Dunnes :eek:

Yeah that's it I think. Tesco probably own the name Crazy Prices so keep using it, trying to convince us they're as cheap as Lidl and Aldi. :rolleyes:

Aidric

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Now is it just me or has anyone else noticed the overuse of the phrase 'Crazy Prices' in Tesco ads lately?

What gives with that?

Are they trying to tap into the Dublin nostalgia shopping market or what?

Crazy Prices. Now I have Maurice Pratt's gurning face stuck in my head. Cheers for that.

AnonoBoy

"You don't have to be as crazy as our prices to shop here but it helps!"

:rolleyes:

Sigourney

There's so much cheap yellow signage in Superquinn Walkinstown it might as well be Super Crazy Prices.

mikemac1

Bag packers?

I've not seen them in a supermarket since 1997

Lux23

irishgeo wrote: »

if they didnt take it over superquinn would have gone bust.

Musgraves took it over ages ago, doesn't mean they had to dump the Superquinn brand.

Cody Pomeray

Andy454 wrote: »

I just got Superquinn's promotional flyer in the door and shoved between the pages of beautiful food is a page long cut out for Supervalu range of generic groceries.
So I've decided to start an online petition to halt this take over - hands of our Superquinn!! - we like it just the way it is!!!
I will refuse to shop there if this changeover comes to pass - will u?

Tbh

http://i.imgflip.com/3ldln.jpg

bonzodog2

Pfft. Everybody knows The Mighty Quinn is where its at these days !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmo1txBayyM