Heatons hypermarket closing down

erica74

I was very surprised to see big "closing down" signs up in the windows of Heatons this evening. Does anyone know why they're closing down? Is there any replacement business planned?

Harry Palmr

Wut? They only have the place a makeover a while ago. Seems odd as they are part of chain.

Another thread about Heatons closing from a few back

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057862502

Twitter machine sez Thurles is closing.

erica74

Yeah, there's big signs done with marker - 20% off, closing down sale. It doesn't look "official" if you get me, the signs are all on plain sheets of paper, looks like they were just thrown up today.

Wildly Boaring

Heatons in mallow closed down in July.

Still open.

Sold all stock.
Closed for a week or two to restock

Reopened
As plenty of interest during the closing down sale and I got two cheap shirts and a cheap pair runners.

Was more a clearance sale

Harry Palmr

Hmmm almost sounds like a very bad marketing ploy!

JohnC.

With 2 Heatons in Waterford, maybe keep the other Heatons and turn this into Sports Direct?

Westernyelp

Heatons are rebranding across the country as Brand Max and sports direct

smaoifs

JohnC. wrote:

With 2 Heatons in Waterford, maybe keep the other Heatons and turn this into Sports Direct?

Yep, this is what's happening. Lisduggan will stay as Heatons and the Hyper will be Sports Direct.

iseegirls

smaoifs wrote: »

Yep, this is what's happening. Lisduggan will stay as Heatons and the Hyper will be Sports Direct.

The whole unit in Hyper is pretty big. Don't think Sports Direct would need all that space?

extrapolate

I was in there and got something that was part of the closing down sale. The things that were included in the closing down sale were 20% off the marked price. On the receipt the 20% reduction went through tagged as "HEATONS REFIT". So I think it would be a fair guess to say they will be staying.

dzilla

iseegirls wrote: »

The whole unit in Hyper is pretty big. Don't think Sports Direct would need all that space?

Sportsdirect are ginormous.

I have been in Uk sports direct the size of the whole hypermarket upstairs and down stairs.

uncommon_name

I wouldn't be surprised if it is just to clear all stock for new stuff. Shops do this a lot on the sly.
Also as Heatons, sports direct, sports world etc... are all part of the one chain, it wouldn't surprise me if they open is as a sports direct like they did in Carrickmines. That store is so much better now with better quality and nicer products and a much larger range.

jimbojazz

uncommon_name wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if it is just to clear all stock for new stuff. Shops do this a lot on the sly.
Also as Heatons, sports direct, sports world etc... are all part of the one chain, it wouldn't surprise me if they open is as a sports direct like they did in Carrickmines. That store is so much better now with better quality and nicer products and a much larger range.

Was up there Saturday, asked the assistant, said Sports Direct were going there.

alta stare

They done the same in Wexford and Kilkenny. The Wexford store is huge.

engiweirdo

Good news in fairness. Sports Direct are a great store and will show up the likes of Lifestyle/JD etc for the overpriced chancers they are. Certainly a better addition than 2 Heatons both selling the same gear.

colm_mcm

Same craic happened in Limerick last year. Just reopened as Sports Direct and some other thing that sells non sports clothes.

alta stare

engiweirdo wrote: »

Good news in fairness. Sports Direct are a great store and will show up the likes of Lifestyle/JD etc for the overpriced chancers they are. Certainly a better addition than 2 Heatons both selling the same gear.

I agree. It is good to see them expand to bigger stores. To be fair tho they are cheap on some stuff yet they can be still pricey on bigger name brands.

Wanderer78

It ll be good to see the staff in these stores being looked after better to!

debok

engiweirdo wrote: »

Good news in fairness. Sports Direct are a great store and will show up the likes of Lifestyle/JD etc for the overpriced chancers they are. Certainly a better addition than 2 Heatons both selling the same gear.

Is sports direct not already up in the hyper? Are they just taking over the whole unit is it?

lollsangel

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Wut? They only have the place a makeover a while ago. Seems odd as they are part of chain.

Another thread about Heatons closing from a few back

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057862502

Twitter machine sez Thurles is closing.

Yea thurles fully closed last week

alta stare

debok wrote: »

Is sports direct not already up in the hyper? Are they just taking over the whole unit is it?

Yeah they were. Mike Ashley bought out Heatons some time ago after alot of back and forth negotiations and now that he owns them he is changing them to full SportsDirect stores. Personally i think it is good to see as they have some good stuff and it is a vote of confidence in Ireland that he is investing as much as he is.

CeilingFly

Wanderer78 wrote: »

It ll be good to see the staff in these stores being looked after better to!

Same company, only difference is the name over the door and the stock.

Heatons
Usc
Sports direct
Brand maxx

And now House of fraser too

All one company - Sports Direct Plc

Wanderer78

CeilingFly wrote:

Same company, only difference is the name over the door and the stock.

Ah bit of tongue and cheek, sports direct have been found to treat their staff like ****e in the past.

Wanderer2010

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Ah bit of tongue and cheek, sports direct have been found to treat their staff like ****e in the past.

One or two of the women working in Heatons treat their customers like crap too.

Harry Palmr

Wanderer v Wanderer

Wanderer78

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

One or two of the women working in Heatons treat their customers like crap too.

maybe if workers were treated with a bit of respect they might in turn treat customers with a bit more respect

alta stare

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

One or two of the women working in Heatons treat their customers like crap too.

Downstairs is worse. A couple of women on the checkouts in supervalu can be very ignorant and slow. They seem to chat amongst themselves more than anything.

lassykk

alta stare wrote: »

Downstairs is worse. A couple of women on the checkouts in supervalu can be very ignorant and slow. They seem to chat amongst themselves more than anything.

Can't speak for ignorance but my god they are so slow... It's the closest brand shop (not an Aldi/Lidl) to me so I do go there but when they did their revamp at the tills I was so disappointed not to see self-scan checkouts!

I love going to Aldi in the Glen afterwards as they literally fire the stuff through the tills. That's the way to get through the customers quickly!

engiweirdo

lassykk wrote: »

Can't speak for ignorance but my god they are so slow... It's the closest brand shop (not an Aldi/Lidl) to me so I do go there but when they did their revamp at the tills I was so disappointed not to see self-scan checkouts!

I love going to Aldi in the Glen afterwards as they literally fire the stuff through the tills. That's the way to get through the customers quickly!

My absolute favourite is when people shop in Lidl/Aldi and behave like they are in Dunnes/Supervalu- slowly pack bag at till, fiddle for purse at last minute then pay with card, treat card machine like some brand new piece of complicated technology.......Urgh, just take your **** and f off please.

Wanderer2010

lassykk wrote: »

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Management in the Hypermarket must be very weak, it took them years to move this absolute wagon of a one off the tills and I think shes at the deli counter now, she should have been fired years ago. Miserable bitter cow is all she is and she took it out on the customers. I stopped going to that till years ago- either too slow or service very sour.

200motels

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Management in the Hypermarket must be very weak, it took them years to move this absolute wagon of a one off the tills and I think shes at the deli counter now, she should have been fired years ago. Miserable bitter cow is all she is and she took it out on the customers. I stopped going to that till years ago- either too slow or service very sour.

I know of whom you speak and she is without doubt the worst person ever to serve in any shop and to think of all the decent people without a job who would do that job 100 times better.

Wanderer2010

200motels wrote: »

I know of whom you speak and she is without doubt the worst person ever to serve in any shop and to think of all the decent people without a job who would do that job 100 times better.

Should have been fired years and years ago. Pathetic managers in there.

Deisedarren

Looks like it’s going to be a brand max and USC Stores

iseegirls

Deisedarren wrote: »

Looks like it’s going to be a brand max and USC Stores

Never heard of the store before. Is it any good? Guess it's discounted clothing judging from their site.

engiweirdo

Heard Darrers were making their big comeback in there.

alta stare

Deisedarren wrote: »

Looks like it’s going to be a brand max and USC Stores

Sportsdirect so.

Deisedarren

They probably take over the upper floor too

alta stare

Deisedarren wrote: »

They probably take over the upper floor too

Yeah they usually do alright and to be fair they have some stuff so there should be a good selection.

fargojones123

iseegirls wrote: »

Never heard of the store before. Is it any good? Guess it's discounted clothing judging from their site.

Brand Max is basically Heatons, with a different name and trying to be more like TK Maxx.

debok

Has it opened back up yet?

Aquos76

debok wrote: »

Has it opened back up yet?

Yes, it reopened on Friday.

engiweirdo

Aquos76 wrote: »

Yes, it reopened on Friday.

Well is it a sports direct or an overpriced Irish version of same?

alta stare

engiweirdo wrote: »

Well is it a sports direct or an overpriced Irish version of same?

If it is Brand Maxx then Yeah it is sportsdirect. I was in one on Cork and they are the same.

debok

engiweirdo wrote: »

Well is it a sports direct or an overpriced Irish version of same?

Brand max is in part where sports used to be and sports direct is all the old heatons part.