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Hands off our Superquinn

  • 17-08-2013 11:09AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭


    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?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 904 ✭✭✭Drakares


    What?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭theSHU


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,751 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,676 CMod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 519 ✭✭✭thecatspjs


    theSHU wrote: »
    It should be turned in a Mace. Mace is ace.

    The staff are terrible


































    friendly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 crispyduck


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,152 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Supervalue already OWN superquinn.


    This is just a rebrand,not a take over.

    Theyve owned them since 2011!!!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Superquinn sausages are over-rated.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭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

    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,304 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭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 !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Christ the Redeemer


    I'm in, Andy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,255 ✭✭✭✭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"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    (William Wallace Impression)

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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,926 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    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

    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,232 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Superquinn bread tastes much nicer because it's freshly baked in store and not generic crap
    Lucky for me so that I like Brennans. :D 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?


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