Shops that you wonder how they stay open?

Parchment · 07-04-2017 02:53PM #1

-The Body Shop - they have some nice stuff but its over priced and staff are pushy. Their shops are always empty!

-Laura Ashley - hugely overpriced and always empty.

razorblunt · 07-04-2017 02:55PM

Army Surplus stores, how do know how many camouflage jackets they have in stock? Where are they?
The last one I visited was selling overpriced hangers.

EverythingGood · 07-04-2017 02:57PM

Parchment wrote: »

-The Body Shop - they have some nice stuff but its over priced and staff are pushy. Their shops are always empty!

-Laura Ashley - hugely overpriced and always empty.

My whole town is like that!

andekwarhola · 07-04-2017 03:01PM

Parchment wrote: »

Their shops are always empty!

Empirical evidence there.

whiskeyman · 07-04-2017 03:02PM

Ice cream shops on Grafton St - seriously, how many warm days a year do we get enough warm sun to warrant buying an ice cream?
What about the rest of the year when we're freezing our nads off??
With retail rents one of the highest in Europe there, it must be a front for money laundering...

demanufactured · 07-04-2017 03:04PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

Ice cream shops on Grafton St - seriously, how many warm days a year do we get enough warm sun to warrant buying an ice cream?
What about the rest of the year when we're freezing our nads off??
With retail rents one of the highest in Europe there, it must be a front for money laundering...

I've cream isn't just for sunny days.
But I often wonder how I've cream van men make any living at all.

murpho999 · 07-04-2017 03:06PM

Every Chinese restaurant in every town in Ireland.

Food is not as popular as it used to be and every restaurant I see is nearly always empty at all times but they are still there.

I think they're all part of an elaborate worldwide spy network planted by the Chinese government.

Parchment · 07-04-2017 03:06PM

andekwarhola wrote: »

Empirical evidence there.

Well i think footfall in a shop is a good indicator of how a shop is doing. Neither of these businesses are mainly online retailers - if they were why do they have so many B&M outlets?

Robxxx7 · 07-04-2017 03:10PM

murpho999 wrote: »

Every Chinese restaurant in every town in Ireland.

Food is not as popular as it used to be and every restaurant I see is nearly always empty at all times but they are still there.

I think they're all part of an elaborate worldwide spy network planted by the Chinese government.

funny you should say that .. when i was in the Algarve a few months back ..a few of the tourist type souvenir shops were run by mostly Chinese families, it was only when i got talking to the local taxi driver on teh drive back to the airport he said that the Chinese Government pay all their taxes/relocation etc and helps them get set up ... don't know how much truth there is in that though ..

valoren · 07-04-2017 03:22PM

There's a place on Cork's North Main Street called Leaders.
It's been there since before I was born. Stocks menswear or more accurately 'Dad' clothes.

I've poked my head in once out of curiosity. Nobody in there. Still open.

stimpson · 07-04-2017 03:24PM

This one:

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razorblunt · 07-04-2017 03:31PM

valoren wrote: »

There's a place on Cork's North Main Street called Leaders.
It's been there since before I was born. Stocks menswear or more accurately 'Dad' clothes.

I've poked my head in once out of curiosity. Nobody in there. Still open.

It's huge too!

There are a few shops down that way like that, Mannix & Culhane on Washington St and the other gaff on Castle Street.
Surely can't be long for this world.

BrokenArrows · 07-04-2017 03:40PM

valoren wrote: »

There's a place on Cork's North Main Street called Leaders.
It's been there since before I was born. Stocks menswear or more accurately 'Dad' clothes.

I've poked my head in once out of curiosity. Nobody in there. Still open.

Independent places like this which have been around forever are usually owned outright so they are probably not paying rent and the owners are just doing it as a day job. Not earning them a fortune but enough to live and keep the business going.

johnnyskeleton · 07-04-2017 03:43PM

Bargain town.

Whose idea was it to set up a furniture shop with nowhere to park?

ScumLord · 07-04-2017 03:44PM

Robxxx7 wrote: »

funny you should say that .. when i was in the Algarve a few months back ..a few of the tourist type souvenir shops were run by mostly Chinese families, it was only when i got talking to the local taxi driver on teh drive back to the airport he said that the Chinese Government pay all their taxes/relocation etc and helps them get set up ... don't know how much truth there is in that though ..

I got the impression that the Chinese shops in Spain are like our euro shops, they sell cheap tat. They didn't seem to have a lot of Chinese restaurants and the ones they did have would constantly shut down and another open up. The Spanish don't seem as into Chinese food as we would be here.

King George VI · 07-04-2017 03:47PM

Dr Quirky's. Do people actually go there?

Turtyturd · 07-04-2017 03:47PM

That shop at the top of Mary street on the left before you reach Capel St. It sells some awful rubbish, I think it still had video tapes outside last time I passed by.

quadrifoglio verde · 07-04-2017 03:49PM

Adult shops.
Like seriously it's not something you feel and look at before purchase.

Or maybe they've demo rampant rabbits out the back :eek:

ohnonotgmail · 07-04-2017 03:55PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

That shop at the top of Mary street on the left before you reach Capel St. It sells some awful rubbish, I think it still had video tapes outside last time I passed by.

Christies or charlies or something like that. That place has been there donkeys years.

uck51js9zml2yt · 07-04-2017 03:55PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

That shop at the top of Mary street on the left before you reach Capel St. It sells some awful rubbish, I think it still had video tapes outside last time I passed by.

You mean Christys....its been there since I was a kid..and that was a while ago!

Theres a couple of hairdressers in Cabra that stay open no matter how few people are ever inside.

freshpopcorn · 07-04-2017 03:56PM

I often find sometimes if you've designer clothes or cosmetics/toiletries shops they can be almost empty with about two female staff doing nothing in them. Sometimes I see places and they never seem busy.
The products can often be bought in a department store or chemist cheaper than their own store.

Widdershins · 07-04-2017 04:00PM

knick knack shops. Yankee candles and floral oven gloves and resin crystal-effect drawer handles. What is the point of them?

brightspark · 07-04-2017 04:05PM

Pint Man wrote: »

Dr Quirky's. Do people actually go there?

Considering it turned a Garda into a multimillionaire enough people must be addicted to gambling to help fund his lifestyle.

http://evoke.ie/showbiz/jackpot-how-rosannas-family-dynasty-is-coining-it-in-to-the-tune-of-millions

Outlaw Pete · 07-04-2017 04:14PM

There's a second hand junk place under the Talbot St bridge that have broken ornaments and half eaten shoes in the window. It's there donkey years and I don't think I ever seen any either enter or leave the place.

foxatron · 07-04-2017 04:14PM

They could be cooking for than just the food!!!

Ill get my coat.

dee_mc · 07-04-2017 04:23PM

Widdershins wrote:

knick knack shops. Yankee candles and floral oven gloves and resin crystal-effect drawer handles. What is the point of them?

They're pointless but they sell incredibly well - all that stuff is snapped up as gifts for mother's day, Christmas etc for 'the person who has everything'.

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-04-2017 04:25PM

Artisan foods

How are they making a living?

Canis Lupus · 07-04-2017 04:29PM

Here in Brisbane there is a 24hr greengrocer. Who dafuq is up buying carrots in the AM?

ScumLord · 07-04-2017 04:30PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Artisan foods

How are they making a living?

Because they charge 3 times what it's worth so they only need a third of the customers.

Tayschren · 07-04-2017 04:31PM

Theres a lighting/lamp shop top of the main street in swords, been open for about 20 years and no once have i seen customers in it.

07-04-2017 04:33PM

Those very fancy antique style shops in the Westbury Mall. I wonder about them. Of course there are those who can afford to buy in there but jaysus €5K for a piss pot kinda stuff

Then there's that lingerie shop in there. It's tiny and mad expensive. You go in and feel weird because it's so small and you are so poor.

Shops that you wonder how they stay open?

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