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Businesses/Shops opening in Cork city/suburbs.

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    #2432
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,171 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    That's a well structured analysis. For a fella whose bald on top, it's laid out succintly.


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    #2433
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Not a business opening but can anybody here remember Super-valu being in Wilton and where was it located in the center?


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    #2434
    s1ippy
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Not a business opening but can anybody here remember Super-valu being in Wilton and where was it located in the center?
    It was where Pennys is now, there was Roches stores on the right and Supervalu on the left.


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    #2435
    freshpopcorn
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    s1ippy wrote: »
    It was where Pennys is now, there was Roches stores on the right and Supervalu on the left.

    Thanks, that's sort of what I thought. I didn't go there often as a kid and it felt so big and now it looks small for both of them to fit into that unit.


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    #2436
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    It really does feel much smaller since Pennys went in. Probably because it was mostly such a chaotic mess! I went in there once for a look and never again, wrecked my Feng Shuí.


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    #2437
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think this was it!
    128_2828.jpg


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    #2438
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I think this was it!
    128_2828.jpg

    Yip. Supervalu was in the unit left to that. Of course it was originally a Roches Stores supermarket.


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    #2439
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,171 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Cork people really miss their Roches.


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    #2440
    the beer revolu
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    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Yip. Supervalu was in the unit left to that. Of course it was originally a Roches Stores supermarket.

    I think Roches owned those Supervalus.


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    #2441
    Slim Charles
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    You could walk from one into the other, it was difficult to tell where one ended and the other started if I recall correctly ?


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    #2442
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,171 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Roches had their own grocery retail, but they first sold that side of the business to Supervalu TMK.


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    #2443
    the beer revolu
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    Water John wrote: »
    Roches had their own grocery retail, but they first sold that side of the business to Supervalu TMK.

    In the one in the city, they seemed to work together for a while. Iirc, it was called Supervau at Rochestores (previously it was a Roche's Stores supermarket) but after a while, it seemed to become a completely separate entity with no shared entrance as was there previously.


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    #2444
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    I think Roches owned those Supervalus.

    Yip.
    Slim Charles wrote: »
    You could walk from one into the other, it was difficult to tell where one ended and the other started if I recall correctly ?

    No, there was always hard wall between the two. You had to walk out to go into the other.


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    #2445
    Slim Charles
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    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Yip.



    No, there was always hard wall between the two. You had to walk out to go into the other.

    I may be thinking of Merchants Quay then ?


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    #2446
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Anybody have a photo to settle the debate?


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    #2447
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Anybody have a photo to settle the debate?

    What debate? I could draw you a lay-out of the store (edit: and Quinnsworth if you'd like) Wilton didn't have the space for that type of design. It needed that wall for stock. The only thing that was sorta connected was a small fridge (with berries etc) at the pillar in the photo facing out between the two, and that was only when it was SV. The fruit veg section was the first on the right with the opposite wall of perfumes; then into bakery, which was shoes/sport ware (mainly adidas towards the end) RS side.

    Literally thousands of times have I been in Wilton SC. Some of my earliest memories are in there. In secondary school, I went in there nearly every day. It's freaky how much of the various layout I remember. I should point out that I didn't hang out in Wilton though as a teenager. Doing "laps of Wilton" was something we scorned.

    I'd like to see photos of the first layout of RS (Grocery) in MQ. Mainly because I remember it being a much, much larger store than what's there now and I want to see if that's accurate.


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    #2448
    robinbird
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    Why is Hickeys allowed open?


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    #2449
    freshpopcorn
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    robinbird wrote: »
    Why is Hickeys allowed open?

    Do they sell fabric that allow people make face masks?


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    #2450
    the beer revolu
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Do they sell fabric that allow people make face masks?

    Other Hicky's. Hardware/homeware. Oliver Plunkett Street.
    I wondered why they are open, too.


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    #2451
    freshpopcorn
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Other Hicky's. Hardware/homeware. Oliver Plunkett Street.
    I wondered why they are open, too.

    There's a hardware, electrical, garden, etc place open near me and the reason they say they are open is because they stock hygiene products. From what I know it isn't much.


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    #2452
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I'm unsure if it's being posted.
    Oasis isn't reopening.


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    #2453
    ofcork
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    Really that's going to be another big unit to fill are they in trouble too?


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    #2454
    freshpopcorn
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    ofcork wrote: »
    Really that's going to be another big unit to fill are they in trouble too?

    From my understanding all Oasis and Warehouse stores aren’t reopening in the Republic of Ireland.


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    #2455
    bleach94
    Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭bleach94


    Was walking through city centre last night {on my within distance of home walk) for the first time in months and noticed a few things. Is the new Selected that opened next to Golden Discs gone already? The building is empty.


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    #2456
    Be right back
    Registered Users Posts: 6,083 ✭✭✭Be right back


    bleach94 wrote: »
    Was walking through city centre last night {on my within distance of home walk) for the first time in months and noticed a few things. Is the new Selected that opened next to Golden Discs gone already? The building is empty.

    Yeah, that is gone a while now, well before the pandemic.


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    #2457
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    It might be doing great but I always found selected fairly expensive for what tour getting!


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    #2458
    Cotts72
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    This is random but has anyone spotted anywhere around the city making 99 ice cream cones yet!?


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    #2459
    what the hell!
    Registered Users Posts: 823 ✭✭✭what the hell!


    Cotts72 wrote: »
    This is random but has anyone spotted anywhere around the city making 99 ice cream cones yet!?

    Good few places doing them I’d say. Keep an eye on the giant cones outside the shops. I’m sure Spar and Centra on Daunt Square are doing them and Centra by M&S.


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    #2460
    JP Liz V1
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    Holland & Barrett in Paul Street is closing
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    #2461
    robinbird
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Holland & Barrett in Paul Street is closing

    There is going to be a lot of vacant retail space when city centre opens up.
    Combine that with council policy to have a car dominated public spaces and its not going to be too attractive or pleasant.


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