No Supervalu in Tullamore.

Harlandegroat

Hi all. Just out of curiosity really but the is no Supervalu in tullamore. We have two dunnes, tescos, aldi and Lidl but no Supervalu. Anyone know why?

mansize

Dunnes keep them out.

scudzilla

Harlandegroat wrote: »

Hi all. Just out of curiosity really but the is no Supervalu in tullamore. We have two dunnes, tescos, aldi and Lidl but no Supervalu. Anyone know why?

Answered your own question there, the place seems to have enough supermarkets, why would another one come in when there's that much competition?

Harlandegroat

scudzilla wrote: »

Answered your own question there, the place seems to have enough supermarkets, why would another one come in when there's that much competition?

Just seems to be the only county town of that size without one

L1011

Supervalu is franchised. Someone local-ish needs to decide to open one or join up their independent shop to it.

Atlantic Dawn

With that much competition and SuperValu being usually more expensive it would be commercial suicide to open one.

colm_mcm

Harlandegroat wrote: »

Just seems to be the only county town of that size without one

Ennis doesn't.

The J Stands for Jay

Harlandegroat wrote: »

Hi all. Just out of curiosity really but the is no Supervalu in tullamore. We have two dunnes, tescos, aldi and Lidl but no Supervalu. Anyone know why?

Why would you want the opportunity to pay more for the same goods?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Harlandegroat wrote: »

Hi all. Just out of curiosity really but the is no Supervalu in tullamore. We have two dunnes, tescos, aldi and Lidl but no Supervalu. Anyone know why?

You never get Supervalu Ina town with Dunnes and Tesco. It's their business model.

CJmasgrande

I think there are two Centras in Tullamore and I believe Centra is same as Supervalu

colm_mcm

CJmasgrande wrote: »

I think there are two Centras in Tullamore and I believe Centra is same as Supervalu

They're both franchised by Musgraves, but aren't the same thing. Centra is convenience store and Super Valu is a supermarket.

RossieMan

Chad Brief Cutoffs wrote:

You never get Supervalu Ina town with Dunnes and Tesco. It's their business model.

Castlebar, Westport, Roscommon, Carrick on Shannon, kilrush, to name a few. Theory debunked.

munster87

Chad Brief Cutoffs wrote: »

You never get Supervalu Ina town with Dunnes and Tesco. It's their business model.

Except quite a large number of towns

colm_mcm

munster87 wrote: »

Except quite a large number of towns

Yes. That's the rule

mansize

Leavy's Centra on Henry Street is good small supermarket with musgrave offers tbf

Cabaal

Chad Brief Cutoffs wrote: »

You never get Supervalu Ina town with Dunnes and Tesco. It's their business model.

Kilkenny has 2 supervales and a Dunness, no tesco though

Donal55

Chad Brief Cutoffs wrote: »

You never get Supervalu Ina town with Dunnes and Tesco. It's their business model.

Roscommon has all three.

cml387

Cabaal wrote: »

Kilkenny has 2 supervales and a Dunness, no tesco though

Being in Kilkenny today, once again I marvel at Dunnes retail model.
There is a huge Dunnes at one end of the town and another in the Mc Donagh centre at the other end.

Neither can possibly be making the money required by their size.

One can only assume that Dunnes went into the Mc Donagh centre to stop Tesco's getting a foothold in Kilkenny.

mansize

cml387 wrote: »

Being in Kilkenny today, once again I marvel at Dunnes retail model.
There is a huge Dunnes at one end of the town and another in the Mc Donagh centre at the other end.

Neither can possibly be making the money required by their size.

One can only assume that Dunnes went into the Mc Donagh centre to stop Tesco's getting a foothold in Kilkenny.

Bingo

L1011

Chad Brief Cutoffs wrote: »

You never get Supervalu Ina town with Dunnes and Tesco. It's their business model.

Maynooth - 16k people and all three plus a huge independent. Not even an ex Superquinn as some are

guil

Chad Brief Cutoffs wrote: »

You never get Supervalu Ina town with Dunnes and Tesco. It's their business model.

Newbridge has all three within 300-400 metres

Geuze

colm_mcm wrote: »

Ennis doesn't.

None in Sligo with 20,000 pop approx.

infogiver

Harlandegroat wrote: »

Just seems to be the only county town of that size without one

Theres none in our large county town either.

Drag00n79

Geuze wrote:

None in Sligo with 20,000 pop approx.

I always found that fairly odd. I know there's one in Ballisodare but a lot won't drive out there just for one SuperValu. I'm surprised they never moved into the town somewhere.

kc66

None in Dundalk, 7th biggest town in Ireland.

L1011

kc66 wrote: »

None in Dundalk, 7th biggest town in Ireland.

Border killed any chance of that. They know how badly Superquinn serially failed