Smyths Carrickmines sale

alksander

Popped into Smyths this Thursday and the half of the shelves were empty and taken down. All of the items I have seen had a marked down price sticker. Many of them had a laughable markdown, but some items did had bigger discounts.

Might be worth checking for someone in the area and looking for toys

Don't go there for the LEGOs, heavy discounts only on the pricey items (e.g. Minecraft kit down form 120 to 80)

Menas

That shop is normally busy...surprised that it would be closing down. Pity too...it is our nearest Smyths.
But thanks for the tip OP, will nip over today.

neckedit

alksander wrote:

Popped into Smyths this Thursday and the half of the shelves were empty and taken down. All of the items I have seen had a marked down price sticker. Many of them had a laughable markdown, but some items did had bigger discounts.

Are they Closing or are you jumping to a massive conclusion?

jimmynokia

alksander wrote:

Don't go there for the LEGOs, heavy discounts only on the pricey items (e.g. Minecraft kit down form 120 to 80)

Perhaps not, some already have in other parts of Ireland. Franchised store?

NinjaTruncs

alksander wrote: »

Popped into Smyths this Thursday and the half of the shelves were empty and taken down. All of the items I have seen had a marked down price sticker. Many of them had a laughable markdown, but some items did had bigger discounts.

Might be worth checking for someone in the area and looking for toys

Don't go there for the LEGOs, heavy discounts only on the pricey items (e.g. Minecraft kit down form 120 to 80)

Jump to conclusions much? I would imagine they are rearranging their shelves. I've been in there a few times and seen the place in similar condition.

BTW their Lego is always overpriced so they can add discount stickers which bring the Lego back to rrp.

craggy2

Smyths stores have a sale starting Tuesday next, some sort of clearance sale so they can stock up for christmas, they're taking stuff off the shelves repricing them and supposed to be putting back the reduced items on Tuesday. Lots about it on beady eye bargains Facebook page. Probably worth dropping in Tuesday morn.

delahuntv

jimmynokia wrote: »

Perhaps not, some already have in other parts of Ireland. Franchised store?

Smyths have never closed a store except when relocating.
Carrickmines is their second busiest store.

They don't operate a franchise - every Smyths store in UK and Ireland is owned by the Smyth brothers and headquartered in Galway.

They do have a long standing purchase agreement with Ken Black in portlaoise / carlow which goes back to when both were small operators and even though it's a gentleman's agreement, it continues to this day.

As above, it's probably a clearout for launching Christmas collections - yep, August sees Christmas deliveries into retail

okidoki987

Carrickmines is their second busiest store.

There's no way it's closing, every time I've been there, it's always packed.
PC World, HN, Currys, Woodies, TK Max & McDonalds would be big crowd pullers along with free parking.
It does well for a Retail Park that doesn't have Argos, Aldi or Lidl (probably because the rents are so high) and the car parks are always full.

blossom180

Getting ready for a big sale on Tuesday my friend works there.

alksander

neckedit wrote: »

Are they Closing or are you jumping to a massive conclusion?

Sorry for posting it here. Conclusion? It is with a question mark - no conclusion there. The store looked like after an apocalypse, the actual shelves were taken off.

alksander

Can a mod please change the post title from "Smyths Carrickmines (closing down?) sale" to "Smyths Carrickmines sale?" please?

Edit: managed to do it myself

jimmynokia

What happened to smyths in Cavan then.Where did that relocate too?

craggy2

alksander wrote: »

Can a mod please change the post title from "Smyths Carrickmines (closing down?) sale" to "Smyths Carrickmines sale?" please?

Edit: managed to do it myself

Thanks for post, might be worth popping into the local one tomorrow :-)

toadfly

jimmynokia wrote: »

What happened to smyths in Cavan then.Where did that relocate too?

Where were they in Cavan?

jimmynokia

Was one beside Argos before about 2 yr ago. Just vanished.

toadfly

jimmynokia wrote: »

Was one beside Argos before about 2 yr ago. Just vanished.

Not in the last 7 years anyway has there been one in Cavan, don't think ever.

delahuntv

jimmynokia wrote: »

Was one beside Argos before about 2 yr ago. Just vanished.

Smyths have never been in Cavan. They are in Navan.

Lemlin

jimmynokia wrote: »

Was one beside Argos before about 2 yr ago. Just vanished.

That was a toy store called World of Wonder, not Smyths. And it closed a lot more than 2 years ago.

jimmynokia

Lemlin wrote: »

That was a toy store called World of Wonder, not Smyths. And it closed a lot more than 2 years ago.

Ahhhhhh yes yes, It was labelled smyths though.thats what got me..

Ashbx

delahuntv wrote: »

Smyths have never closed a store except when relocating.
Carrickmines is their second busiest store.

Just saw on another thread that they are closing down Smyths in Bray.

Spipov

was there yesterday. either it has all been bought, but very little clearance items there. not much of a sale actually either.

NinjaTruncs

I was in the bray store on Monday and no sign of it closing down. If they sold everything it sold quick. I would imagine they simply sent the stock to other stores particularly the high value stock.

toadfly

Ashbx wrote: »

Just saw on another thread that they are closing down Smyths in Bray.

Link please .

ted1

The reason the shelves are empty is that they are just being put up. For summer they have swings, slides etc all on display. At the end of summer they remove this display and replace it with shelves. It takes up a large enough area

Ashbx

toadfly wrote: »

Link please .

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056464905&page=48

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