What businesses are recession proof ?

Jumboman

Just thinking about businesses that will always make money even in a recession.

The list I came up with are

Fast Food- People will always have enough money to scrape together to buy a burger or chips.


Low cost Supermarkets - Such as aldi and lidl - people will always look for cheap food.


Funeral homes - People will always die.


Pharmacys - As long as there are sick people they will make money.


Clampers - These people basically have a licence to print money.


Euroshops - People need very little money to shop in a Euroshop.


Energy companies - Such as ESB and Bord Gais- people must use electricity or gas.


What else can be added to the list ?

Iwasfrozen

Car Insurance, you're legally mandated to buy it.

Birroc

Hair dressers, barbers.

Old folks homes.

Mr. CooL ICE

Mechanics

Wanderer2010

Drug Dealing.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Money laundering, loan sharking, racketeering, drug smuggling, prostitution, armed robbery.

AskMyChocolate

Drugs.

Edit; Too late!

caustic 1

social welfare workers.

Taxburden carrier

Public sector

wazky

Cash for gold

MJ23

Chippers. Lazy people on the dole can't and don't cook.

padd b1975

Economist who specialises in windbagging about recessions.

krudler

MJ23 wrote: »

Chippers. Lazy people on the dole can't and don't cook.

Nothing wrong with eating chips the odd time, I'd murder a bag right now

Undertakers.

The demand remains fairly constant.

Karl Stein

MJ23 wrote: »

Lazy people on the dole can't and don't cook.

If there was a market for moronic statements there'd be no recession in that line of business.

AlanS181824

Bin companies

thegills

Loan sharks
Premier League soccer clubs
The GAA
Pubs in Temple Bar.

Ruu

Pawn shops, repo men.

MJ23

krudler wrote: »

Nothing wrong with eating chips the odd time, I'd murder a bag right now

There's surely not. I love to go the chipper once a week myself. I know of several people, who have never worked a day in their life, are on the dole since 18, and get take aways every night of the week.
Sure isn't it a great country.

handlemaster

Baby clothes ... etc

mattjack

Charlie Rock wrote: »

If there was a market for moronic statements there'd be no recession in that line of business.

Charlie , maybe he's being sarcastic given the nature of AH.

Riddle101

Silvio Dante says it at the end of this video. Certain aspects of show business, and our thing(organised crime)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6waBUeS4ZS8

Karl Stein

mattjack wrote: »

Charlie , maybe he's being sarcastic given the nature of AH.

Ya think?

MJ23 wrote: »

I know of several people, who have never worked a day in their life, are on the dole since 18, and get take aways every night of the week.

Jumboman

Cigarettes is another one.

mattjack

Charlie Rock wrote: »

Ya think?

I know one in particular too who has never worked in his life , never will either and gets a takeaway every night.
Though in saying that he does supplement his income with a little dealing.

Owen_S

Cigarettes and alcohol... and rollerblading

goose2005

cheap beer

IvaBigWun

Shoe repair shops.

If anything business has picked up for them

deseil

Tv companies sky etc nobody can afford to go out so have to have tv

Hootanany

Banks

















Holds head down in shame

theblaqueguy

Bookies people will always try to gamble there way out of the recession

Legs.Eleven

Shops that sell stuff to make you recession proof during the recession.

Fighting Irish

Jumboman wrote: »

Energy companies - Such as ESB and Bord Gais- people must use electricity or gas.

i think a new technology will come out and take these over

BNMC

The fanny pad industry.

stefan idiot jones

Tattooists.
Still plenty of them around.

Charity Shops.
A growing industry.

Mobile Phone Shops.
No matter how hard up people are, some just always find the money for the latest model.

Shops that sell baseball caps.
Every scanger seems to have several so someone is coining it in.

lazygal

Joe Duffy. People always need a whinge.

The Big Smoke

Sunglasses, condoms and lube. You can never have enough lube.

Sleepy

Liquidators / Insolvency Firms. I do some work with a few of them and the industry is BOOMING. Serious money being made and a fairly loosely regulated industry...

DazMarz

To quote The Sopranos:

"Certain aspects of show-business and our thing" (our thing = organised crime).

Temptamperu

MJ23 wrote: »

There's surely not. I love to go the chipper once a week myself. I know of several people, who have never worked a day in their life, are on the dole since 18, and get take aways every night of the week.
Sure isn't it a great country.

so that means they are all at it!!! them bastards!! :mad:

smcgiff

Writing hit TV series, an accomplished singer, award winning artist.

Surprised I haven't thought about it before now.

michellie

Nct centres, people are keeping their cars now instead of buying new ones. Most centres are up the walls busy.

Sir montygom

Dentists....... i went to see mine during the last recession and will probably need to visit again before this recession ends..

bingo halls still holding their own....

coolbond

prison service ;-)

Selling lies to children.... sorry.... "Religion"..... tends to do better in recession times than it does during boom years.

Archeron

Faberge egg factories

donegal__road

IT and oil industry

Lando Griffin

Politics.
When steering the economy through the worst global economic crisis since the 1920s and making tough life changing decisions for the future of this fair country it is easy to forget those who make these important decisions.
Some have had their pay cut but continue to work through the economic winter preparing us for a spring recovery to soon reep the harvest of our sarcifices. The youth of tomorrow will not forget what these brave men have done to dig us out of thes recession and get this once great bastion of a country top of the tigers once again; a nation once again.
May god bless us all.
Also two euro stores if you can own one in a town that has none all ready

connundrum

Religions
Bookmakers
Off Licenses