Dunne's - doing anything for the local community

Selling coats at €900

They're on a secret mission. Identifying idiots with more money than sense who bother credit card receipts and..... 'dealt with'.

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/05/24/how-much-133/

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Wow genuinely shocked at that...I have shopped in SuperValu once in my life...the Chinese supermarket gets a monthly visit

Did you ever shop at Superquinn...?

They have their share of divilmint down my way as well - this is basically about access for trucks and machinery across a corner of Dunnes' fairly large car-park:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/work-on-bishopstown-credit-union-site-halted-over-dunnes-stand-off-411065.html

Out of all the supermarkets available to me I'd say supervalu has the best stuff. Their own brand stuff is pretty good and they usually have decent ready made stuff. It's more expensive but if you're not looking to buy in bulk I think it's reasonable enough.

BailMeOut wrote: »

SuperValu is the biggest supermarket is Ireland is easily the leader in supporting local communities as well as local producers and farmers. Live in a town with a Supervalu and you will see how important they are to the local area.

They do seem to have far more food from smaller Irish suppliers in their stores. From their website:

75% of products sold on SuperValu shelves are either produced or sourced in Ireland

https://supervalu.ie/about/supporting-ireland


Also sponsor GAA & Tidy Towns

bringupthebook wrote: »

...Not sure what they give to local communities though!

Two fingers mainly, in our case. :pac:

remember Centra is also Supervalu and virtually every town in Ireland has a Centra.

Talk about scraping the pitchfork barell.

Supervalue take on local produce and have far higher numbers of staff than their German competitors. A friend of mine started growing strawberries and raspberries 15 years ago and the local super value took him on and he's still going to them and the next supervalue over.

If you really think these superstores are giving out money for the feel good factor, then you are mistaken. Their clever, well researched marketing ploys. The broadcasting of the ads bragging about their donations probably cost more than what they gave.

Ladies GAA is a lot smaller numbers than than the male GAA. The sponsorship aims right into the core of the community at a fraction of the cost than male GAA with an equality flair about it. It's great for the Ladies GAA but it's a pure reactionary counter to supervalues funding of local sports/initiatives.

Plus when you wander down the budget centre isles of Lidl and Aldi and see the discounted cycling & running gear, clothes, cooking appliances, garden furniture, tools and toys you'd have to wonder how badly affected local retailers are when their products feature the Aldi/Lidl weekly offers.

podgemonster wrote: »

If you really think these superstores are giving out money for the feel good factor, then you are mistaken. Their clever, well researched marketing ploys. The broadcasting of the ads bragging about their donations probably cost more than what they gave.

There's definitely an element of that. No business would be supporting sports, groups or charities if they couldn't boast about it, and if they don't boast about it they'll be accused of doing nothing.

But the larger businesses like these are hit up by every group that has an idea. Someone decides to run a charity night like deal or no deal event and they'll hit up the local supermarket. So at this stage many businesses will have a budget for it and pick the most worthy/popular causes, which will preferably be something to do with funding kids sports because everyone likes kids and parents are big spenders.

Plus when you wander down the budget centre isles of Lidl and Aldi and see the discounted cycling & running gear, clothes, cooking appliances, garden furniture, tools and toys you'd have to wonder how badly affected local retailers are when their products feature the Aldi/Lidl weekly offers.

I don't think it's that big of an issue, if you need something you're hardly going to wait for it to show up in Lidl. If you need it, the one in Lidl probably won't be good enough. I'd say most people are like me, they see something cool, buy it, put it on a shelf never to be used. Lidl stuff is handy to have in an emergency but a lot of it isn't up to regular use.

A_Sober_Paddy wrote:

I know my dad does a lot of his shop in Galway in SuperValu. I'm only 27 so super Quinn was gone when I was very young no?

Never had a superquinn in Galway. You may be thinking of quinnsworth gone a long time now.