Who remembers Roches Stores?

Andy From Sligo · 08-07-2018 08:23PM #1

I knew roches stores went ages ago - but surprised it closed way back in 2007. good store that. Had to travel to Galway to go shop there , because there wasnt one in Sligo (now there's a surprise) anyone else on here used to like that store?

bee06 · 08-07-2018 08:26PM

Roches was the best! Whatever you needed they had it. I’m surprised it only closed 11 years ago. Seems like longer.

odyssey06 · 08-07-2018 08:26PM

Yes, one of my first memories is a shopping trip to Roches to pick out a new jacket for Christmas...

Speedsie · 08-07-2018 08:27PM

I still use many items originally purchased in Roches over the years. It really had everything you needed.
Miss it as a shop.

How Soon Is Now · 08-07-2018 08:27PM

I remember the one in Tallaght. Also remember the one on Henry Street having great selection of pick and mix haha!

corner of hells · 08-07-2018 08:40PM

I remember the Roche's Stores in Henry Street well.

An interesting fact for ya'll was that the Henry Street branch used no CCTV relying on a team of store detectives who used move around the store on catwalks above the shop floor and behind false walls.

Another benefit for the store detectives was that they often kicked the bollix out of shoplifters without fear of being recorded doing it.

Disclaimer , may or may not be true.

Allinall · 08-07-2018 08:44PM

Roches Stores in Henry Street had a deadly haberdashery department.

To this day I don’t know of any other one in Dublin .

Water John · 08-07-2018 08:47PM

Roches was a great chain of stores, original in Cork. Always quality and everyone got their weddings presents there and they would exchange them, no problem.

nullzero · 08-07-2018 08:48PM

Debenhams bought them out as far as I know,closed a load of the smaller branches and rebranded the rest doing a similar type of business only not as good. Roches had fantastic bed sheets and stuff like that, clearys did similar things and they're gone too. Long live the British chain stores and their lower standards.

votecounts · 08-07-2018 08:49PM

I have fond memories of the shops in Wilton and Patrick Street. Pity they are gone.

Conservatory · 08-07-2018 08:50PM

I remember all the country folk used to come up to Dublin on the same day every year to do their Christmas shopping.

PandaPoo · 08-07-2018 08:53PM

Roches in Nutgrove was my local. Up the big escalator

Andy From Sligo · 08-07-2018 08:55PM

Conservatory wrote: »

I remember all the country folk used to come up to Dublin on the same day every year to do their Christmas shopping.

8th december?

suicide_circus · 08-07-2018 08:58PM

Roches Frascati was replaced by M&S when we got notions

Conservatory · 08-07-2018 08:59PM

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

8th december?

Yeah what was that all about?

Ubbquittious · 08-07-2018 09:04PM

Yep. Founded by a Killavullen man I do believe, frittered away the proceeds on wimmin and dhrink

AllGunsBlazing · 08-07-2018 09:04PM

I was more traumatised by being dragged into BHS during the annual shopping trip to Dublin. It meant new shoes and slacks for school and summer parole was all but done. Depressed.

corner of hells · 08-07-2018 09:06PM

Conservatory wrote: »

Yeah what was that all about?

It was a day to allow Dublin pickpockets and young fellahs who break into culchie cars to supplement their income coming up to Christmas.

biko · 08-07-2018 09:06PM

I used to shop in Roches on Eyre street. Have no particularly fond memories of it though, just another shop.

stampydmonkey · 08-07-2018 09:08PM

Roches Stores Galway....best sport dept/creche ever.

Half the parents of Galway would dump the kids in there to wander around while they fecked off down the town. They had a tiny grey TV showing world cup games over and over...there'd be 7 or 8 kids staring up at it on a Saturday morning.

Conservatory · 08-07-2018 09:09PM

corner of hells wrote: »

It was a day to allow Dublin pickpockets and young fellahs who break into culchie cars to supplement their income coming up to Christmas.

In fairness times were tough before we had all the tourists and foreign students to rob.

kurtainsider · 08-07-2018 09:11PM

I used to go to Roaches stores in the Wilton Shopping Center in Cork. My memory of it is that the staff were always very nice and friendly.

chakademus · 08-07-2018 09:11PM

Best place for fancy paper.

Conservatory · 08-07-2018 09:13PM

chakademus wrote: »

Best place for fancy paper.

And pliers

iamwhoiam · 08-07-2018 09:14PM

I was in Debenhams on Friday and it was a car boot sale . Really tacky and clothes racks everywhere .
Roches was much classier in its day and I loved its home ware department .

GrumpyMe · 08-07-2018 09:19PM

Fond memories of watching the populace attempting to us those newfangled moving stairs... in the Henry Street flagship store
https://comeheretome.com/2012/03/07/the-roches-stores-escalators/

charlietheminxx · 08-07-2018 09:25PM

Whenever I was off school as a child, I used to go to town with my nana on a Thursday for a bit of shopping. We always met some of her nieces in the cafe in the Henry St Roches afterwards for a coffee and a snack, I always remember them doing lovely desserts. Can still picture the layout and us trying to find a table while carrying a tray.

This thread has made me a bit nostalgic and sad now (disclaimer: because I miss my Nana, not the desserts).

colm_mcm · 08-07-2018 09:27PM

I remember in the early 90s, the one in Patrick Street in Cork has an orange juice machine that they would feed oranges into. Had never seen one before!

Andy From Sligo · 08-07-2018 09:31PM

Conservatory wrote: »

Yeah what was that all about?

oh it 'was the day to go' - something to do with religion , and the kids were off school for the day. I was one of the great un-washed cultchies that used to travel up from Sligo to Dublin on the iarnrod eireann orange yoke craven A's or whatever they were (nice comfy seats) 18 Irish Punt return day trip

Try_harder · 08-07-2018 09:31PM

Roches thread? Nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

Corruptedmorals · 08-07-2018 09:32PM

I have great memories of playing on the swings, the sweet counter, the cafe and the shoe section beside it, the posters and hairbands section and getting lost and sitting on the customer service desk while they announced me as a lost child over the intercom.

Who remembers Roches Stores?

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