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Dunnes (UK) more or less gone

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  • #32
    Oasis1974
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    Bob Harris wrote: »
    Dunnes has the largest share of the Irish grocery market just ahead of Super Valu and Tesco and has been gaining share over the last few years so it can't be doing that badly.

    This. Dunne's are preforming really well in Ireland which is what matters in the end. Who gives a toss about stores closing in the UK? If there share in the grocery market is that good with all the competition then fair play to them.


  • #33
    muckbrien
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    Can't see them lasting myself

    I don't understand the brand or what they stand for


  • #34
    Graces7
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    georgina toadbum wrote: »
    The only reason I go to my local Dunnes is to try and keep it from closing down so the staff don't lose their jobs. They are possibly the friendliest staff I've come across despite working in horrible conditions. I can see it failing here too because their prices, even on their own brand stuff, just aren't competitive enough.

    Yes I agree re the staff. I find their prices on own brand too, much the same as elsewhere. Their cooked chickens are excellent value, especially compared with tesco


  • #35
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Don't particularly like them but Dunnes are also an Irish company.

    Don't know about anyone else but i'd hate to see our shopping streets turn in to total British high streets which is the way things are going here.

    May as well be in Sheffield walking around a lot of Dublin today.

    That's the market and fair enough but it's a bit sad too.


  • #36
    ednwireland
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    I buy dunnes chinos for work, wear them out throw em away

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  • #37
    Mr.H
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    muckbrien wrote:
    I don't understand the brand or what they stand for


    Better value better quality....... I mean it's in their song


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    Brexit


  • #39
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Don't particularly like them but Dunnes are also an Irish company.

    Don't know about anyone else but i'd hate to see our shopping streets turn in to total British high streets which is the way things are going here.

    May as well be in Sheffield walking around a lot of Dublin today.

    That's the market and fair enough but it's a bit sad too.

    100% agree. Even see it in smaller regional towns like Athlone. A new shopping centre opened here around ten years ago and nearly all of the shops are British or foreign chains of some sort, apart from Easons, a jewelers, a chemist and a couple of cafés. A lot of the indigenous businesses have been killed off and other streets are dying a death because of it.

    As you say, that's the market, always bothers me on some level though.


  • #40
    Mint Sauce
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    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Are they still in Enniskillen? They had a pretty big store in the town centre on the site of the old Mart.

    They are, seems quite modern as well. From the outside anyway, never stepped inside it as far as I can remember.


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