Shops that you wonder how they stay open?

For Forks Sake · 07-04-2017 11:01PM

Beyondgone wrote: »

Tesco.

Given how many people now do Lidl and Aldi. It's usually half deserted when I go in.

Your anecdotal evidence isn't reflective of reality, Tescos market share (while on the slide of late) is still slightly higher than Lidl & Aldi combined

https://www.kantarworldpanel.com/ie/grocery-market-share/ireland

the_pen_turner · 07-04-2017 11:04PM

Beyondgone wrote: »

People used to value demant very highly. They regarded demant as being anteque. It was downgraded to crap there in 2015.

sorry. my pc is is acting up. if you type fast it goes mad

90 % of the stuff i see in those shops and on tv programmes is tat and crap that is useless.

thunderdog · 07-04-2017 11:04PM

Any sunglasses shops, that solely sell sunglasses. I can't figure out how they make any money for half the year

Beyondgone · 08-04-2017 08:30AM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Your anecdotal evidence isn't reflective of reality, Tescos market share (while on the slide of late) is still slightly higher than Lidl & Aldi combined

https://www.kantarworldpanel.com/ie/grocery-market-share/ireland

So now.

No more need to wonder then.

stefanovich · 08-04-2017 08:40AM

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 eat ice cream on cold days, as do many others.

stefanovich · 08-04-2017 08:41AM

You'd be surprised how low rent is for some of these shops.

Prinks · 08-04-2017 08:49AM

Power City. When you go in the Sallynoggin one you're the only customer there, with ten assistants watching you.

TrustedApple · 08-04-2017 08:55AM

Prinks wrote: »

Power City. When you go in the Sallynoggin one you're the only customer there, with ten assistants watching you.

And magically i sued them in the small claims court and they did not show up .....

Still waiting for my court ordered refund for my TV 3 weeks later ha

Muff Richardson · 08-04-2017 09:01AM

Any one of those Cartridgre Green shops, I drive by one everyday and never seen a single person in there. The concept alone is muck. Pal of mine works from home, he got refill cartridges from them once, said they were shįte, heard the same from a few other people.

Barry Badrinath · 08-04-2017 09:06AM

Motion Picture clothes shop in Dun Laoghaire.

It's been "closing down" for almost 20 years.

Never see anyone buying anything in it.

Dramatik · 08-04-2017 11:35AM

Knobs and knockers on nassau st. Dublin

Ted111 · 08-04-2017 11:53AM

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 ..

That taxi man was a russian double agent who wanted to divert your attention from the nigerian watch sellers who are german agents.
The old pin it on the chinese game.

Neon_Lights · 08-04-2017 11:55AM

Dramatik wrote: »

Knobs and knockers on nassau st. Dublin

Met my girlfriend outside there haha

Savage Tyrant · 08-04-2017 12:06PM

thunderdog wrote: »

Any sunglasses shops, that solely sell sunglasses. I can't figure out how they make any money for half the year

I buy a new air of Ray-Bans every 2 years or so. Got a pair in Dundrum a couple of days ago and there was 4 people being served ahead of me. Including one man buying 4 pairs (wife, kids and himself apparently)
I've never really considered what the profit margin is on a €160 pair of sunglasses, but I'm assuming it's days like that making up for what are surely pretty lean pickings in November, January and February.

For my pick, I can't understand how some small town independent sports shops can do business. Jerseys priced €10 more than the likes of Elvery's or Lifestyle. Running shoes are often €30/50 over.

ToddyDoody · 08-04-2017 12:13PM

Does The Christian Science Reading Room on George's Street in Dublin ever be open? I'm wondering is it just really a vacant unit or do tenants pay rent there.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for Christian Science.

Bredabe · 08-04-2017 12:31PM

King George VI wrote: »

Dr Quirky's. Do people actually go there?

From what I see it appeals to an age group, that said, when one of my ahhh, "Charges" go missing, its the first place I go, usually the last as well.

Erik Shin · 08-04-2017 12:46PM

Neon_Lights wrote: »

Met my girlfriend outside there haha

Ah yes, lovely knockers indeed

somesoldiers · 08-04-2017 01:55PM

The words smallest carpet shop opened in Kells a few months back. The shop was barely big enough to swing a cat, it has since closed.
Businesses are forever opening up, spend a fortune on fitting out the shop, last a few months then close. Then someone else moves in and does the same. One unit is on its 3rd cycle as an Indian/ kebab mishmash in the last 2 years though the latest iteration is doing pizzas now also in a brave move to corner some market share from the other 10 places that do pizza

Yourself isit · 08-04-2017 02:08PM

Prinks wrote: »

Power City. When you go in the Sallynoggin one you're the only customer there, with ten assistants watching you.

Surely people realise that a lot depends on the margins. 5 assistants selling to ten people an hour could work if the margins are high. And unless you waited an hour you wouldn't see ten customers, you might see none in the 5 minutes you are in there. Not saying power city are very high margins but it explains what is going on on some cases.

Yourself isit · 08-04-2017 02:12PM

Savage Tyrant wrote: »

I buy a new air of Ray-Bans every 2 years or so. Got a pair in Dundrum a couple of days ago and there was 4 people being served ahead of me. Including one man buying 4 pairs (wife, kids and himself apparently)
I've never really considered what the profit margin is on a €160 pair of sunglasses, but I'm assuming it's days like that making up for what are surely pretty lean pickings in November, January and February.

For my pick, I can't understand how some small town independent sports shops can do business. Jerseys priced €10 more than the likes of Elvery's or Lifestyle. Running shoes are often €30/50 over.

Exactly. An empty enough shop selling a few €100-200 items a day can break even or better. The labour costs are one salesman

Vojera · 08-04-2017 02:47PM

Parchment wrote: »

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

A friend of mine used to work for them and said the management pushed aggressive sales practices and pretty much if you weren't seen to be on top of the customers as soon as they came in the door, you'd get a dressing down for it and find your hours cut. The staff don't like doing it, they know the customers hate it, but management wants the shops run this way. I've heard the same about Gamestop too, actually, the way they're made push disc insurance etc.

marketty · 08-04-2017 02:47PM

LynnGrace wrote:

Some of the shops at Dublin Airport, I know I would only be passing through, and maybe it's at quiet times, but I think sometimes that the staff must be very bored.

Especially the fish shop. Who's buying fish at the airport? I'd often pick up a book or perfume, maybe a bottle a whiskey, but a foot of smoked salmon...

sinjin_smythe · 08-04-2017 02:55PM

That sex shop on the luas track near St. James hospital. Im convinced it a front for some sort of money laundering operation. Who in their right mind would pop in to a dingy seedy shop like that at any stage during the day, and its open till like 3am 7 days a week. Its been there for as long as i can remember.

Just my 2 cents!

Ted111 · 08-04-2017 03:02PM

weedhead wrote: »

That sex shop on the luas track near St. James hospital. Im convinced it a front for some sort of money laundering operation. Who in their right mind would pop in to a dingy seedy shop like that at any stage during the day, and its open till like 3am 7 days a week. Its been there for as long as i can remember.

Just my 2 cents!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suyQ44rRL5M

somesoldiers · 08-04-2017 03:05PM

weedhead wrote: »

That sex shop on the luas track near St. James hospital. Im convinced it a front for some sort of money laundering operation. Who in their right mind would pop in to a dingy seedy shop like that at any stage during the day, and its open till like 3am 7 days a week. Its been there for as long as i can remember.

Just my 2 cents!

Do they have video booths? I always though these were the ultimate in sad bastard-ness!

biko · 08-04-2017 03:11PM

This shop in India

and this in Cairo

rawn · 08-04-2017 03:12PM

There's a supplement store in the blanchardstown shopping center. I have never ever seen anybody there. The lady that sits slightly outside of it looks like she had given up all hope, but they've been open years so they must be doing ok.

Doctor Nick · 08-04-2017 03:15PM

King George VI wrote: »

Dr Quirky's. Do people actually go there?

The casino part does be packed.

Doctor Nick · 08-04-2017 03:38PM

somesoldiers wrote: »

Do they have video booths? I always though these were the ultimate in sad bastard-ness!

Sign up for a cinema! Can't say I'd fancy that. Somebody cracking on off beside and feck knows what's on the seats.

Neames · 08-04-2017 03:38PM

There's a shop unit near where I live, it had a kebab shop in it....it didn't do well closed down....next thing another kebab shop opens....it didn't do well, closed down...... another kebab shop opens....it didn't do well closed down....guess what happened next?

Shops that you wonder how they stay open?

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