Have all the Dunnes gone the same way?

Was in the Dunnes in Cornlscourt and it now got a Shiridens cheeses room and a fancy butchers and deli, Kinda food porn. Are all the branches going like that, have they decided to ditch the value end because of Aldi and Lidil and reinvent themselves Waitrose or Harrods.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Who cares. Dunnes treat their staff like they're pieces of dirt, I wouldn't set foot in one again.

whiskeyman

mariaalice wrote: »

have they decided to ditch the value end

When they started selling a plank of wood for €60, surely that the end!

jimgoose

Well, they're definitely not the pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap operation of old. Between "Carolyn Donnelly Eclectic", Paul Costello and, most recently, Francis Brennan they seem to be trying to compete with Debenham's or some crowd like that.

whiskeyman

whiskeyman wrote: »

When they started selling a plank of wood for €60, surely that the end!

Or the Francis Brennan collection.

meeeeh

Our local Dunnes still has employees wearing 20 years old uniforms, broken trolleys and the most high end cheese is extra mature Dubliner. They competing hard with Tesco for the most grubby shop in town. Tesco lost some bonus points after they figured out it's better to provide some bins than collect rubbish from the trolleys.

Going to refurbished Lidl feels like luxury in comparison.

corner of hells

meeeeh wrote: »

Our local Dunnes still has employees wearing 20 years old uniforms, broken trolleys and the most high end cheese is extra mature Dubliner. They competing hard with Tesco for the most grubby shop in town. Tesco lost some bonus points after they figured out it's better to provide some bins than collect rubbish from the trolleys.

Going to refurbished Lidl in feels like luxury in comparison.

Downtown Mosul or Aleppo ?

meeeeh

corner of hells wrote: »

Downtown Mosul or Aleppo ?

Midlands.

Winterlong

mariaalice wrote: »

Or the Francis Brennan collection.

Francis Brennan has a collection? You are fcking trolling now.

WhoWhatWhere

Dunnes Stores isn't like it used to be. It's not trying to be the "always better value" shop it was at one time. Problem is people who want the likes of debanhams go to debanhams and when they want reasonbly priced groceries they pop to Aldi or Lidl. Dunnes in Enniscorthy seems to be trying to take over the town, denying Penny's and TK Maxx from opening up in the old Dunne stores retail unit on Main Street. I've noticed people responding in the only useful way; with their wallets and purses respectively.

tigger123

mariaalice wrote: »

Was in the Dunnes in Cornlscourt and it now got a Shiridens cheeses room and a fancy butchers and deli, Kinda food porn. Are all the branches going like that, have they decided to ditch the value end because of Aldi and Lidil and reinvent themselves Waitrose or Harrods.

I think it's Sheridans (?)

But spelling it Shiridens make it sound suuuuper posh!

Kaizersoze81

Winterlong wrote: »

Francis Brennan has a collection? You are fcking trolling now.

http://m.dunnesstores.com/view-all/francis-brennan-the-collection/fcp-category/list

super_furry

http://rsvpmagazine.ie/dunnes-are-selling-a-plank-of-wood-for-e60/

Don't forget their €60 plank of wood.

Winterlong

Kaizersoze81 wrote: »

http://m.dunnesstores.com/view-all/francis-brennan-the-collection/fcp-category/list

I have seen it all now. What dope would want to buy anything associated with the most annoying man in ireland?

Anyway, that's it. Wont darken Dunnes's doorway again.

eeguy

corner of hells wrote: »

Downtown Mosul or Aleppo ?

meeeeh wrote: »

Midlands.

Worse...

maximum12

I've noticed in more than one branch that the staff are very unprofessional. They constantly seem to be messing or else engaged in conversation or bitching about something. They're not in any rush to stop the conversation when a customer is standing there waiting. Eventually staff will do whatever they get away with so there seems to be very weak store management.

BOHtox

Worked in Dunnes for 3 years. Left a year and a half ago and haven't stepped foot back in it since. Horrible, horrible place to work.

Malari

Winterlong wrote: »

Francis Brennan has a collection? You are fcking trolling now.

It's only a collection. Edits are the new thing :cool:

http://www.dunnesstores.com/carolyn-donnelly-the-edit/women/fcp-category/home

valoren

I believe that the Dunnes on the North Main Street in Cork City also serves as a gateway to Hell.

Charles Babbage

valoren wrote: »

I believe that the Dunnes on the North Main Street in Cork City also serves as a gateway to Hell.

That should be convenient for the many locals for whom Hell is their destination.

super_furry

BOHtox wrote: »

Worked in Dunnes for 3 years. Left a year and a half ago and haven't stepped foot back in it since. Horrible, horrible place to work.

Think they've always had a history of treating their staff like garbage. I worked there part-time way back when in my college days and there was just a culture of everyone higher up absolutely sh1tting on the people below - across the board. I was a shelf stacker and my boss was crap to me, his boss talked to him like a dog and so on.

Left there after about a year and was kind of amazed that when I started my next job, that it wasn't a perpetual warzone.

It's a long time since I've been in a Dunnes, but the clothing areas are now laid out almost exactly the same way as M&S so I'm not surprised they're trying to upgrade their food 'experience' as well. It's a shop that doesn't know who it's customer base is anymore.

Colser

valoren wrote:

I believe that the Dunnes on the North Main Street in Cork City also serves as a gateway to Hell.

That's closed.

super_furry

Colser wrote: »

That's closed.

That's what they want you to think.

TheDriver

Not as bad as ballyvolane one

RayM

meeeeh wrote: »

Our local Dunnes still has employees wearing 20 years old uniforms, broken trolleys and the most high end cheese is extra mature Dubliner. They competing hard with Tesco for the most grubby shop in town.

It can't be worse than the old Dunnes Stores (if it's even still open) in Portlaoise...

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.039562,-7.3075619,3a,75y,57.86h,85.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1slyxe7kMWJ-8RzufeHek2lg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Colser

super_furry wrote:

That's what they want you to think.

Thanks for the heads up ðŸ˜

meeeeh

Candie wrote: »

It's a long time since I've been in a Dunnes, but the clothing areas are now laid out almost exactly the same way as M&S so I'm not surprised they're trying to upgrade their food 'experience' as well. It's a shop that doesn't know who it's customer base is anymore.

I'm not sure copying M&S clothing strategy makes sense considering they are tanking for a while. But then maybe they decided M&S ate there for the taking. I prefer their strategy to go a bit more upmarket than race to the bottom with Penny's.

razorblunt

TheDriver wrote: »

Not as bad as ballyvolane one

Shudder.
I have memories of doing the Thursday night shop with the parents up there as a child. I then went out with a girl who lived in Ballyvolane over 20 years later and popped in there the odd time.
It was like walking back in time, it was the exact same.

sligojoek

Have all the Dunnes gone the same way?

No. Ben split from them after the cocaine incident. He runs gyms now.

Elliott S

Candie wrote: »

It's a long time since I've been in a Dunnes, but the clothing areas are now laid out almost exactly the same way as M&S so I'm not surprised they're trying to upgrade their food 'experience' as well. It's a shop that doesn't know who it's customer base is anymore.

I quite like Dunnes clothes and always have done. Lots of good basics and always decent quality, I find. I've had lots of clothes items down the years that people have complimented and then been surprised to hear where I got them.