Stores Closing in Sligo **mod warning post #720**

All stores to close by June 24th. The Waterford one has looked a bit down on its luck the last few days that I’ve been in. Still a shock. They must have started operating here nearly 30 years ago.

Mod: This isn't a competition so cut it out. I clearly asked you not to post about businesses closing unless it was formally announced. Apart from Argos which is a national closure you again posted details of 2 other businesses that are closed short term only and intend opening again. You appear to be gloating about the closures in an attempt to justify your post from last year and get one over on the forum mod. That ends here. Show a bit of respect to the Argos workers who were only told this morning that they will be losing their jobs and I don't think they will be too impressed with the gloating here.

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Wednesday (10am-9pm) to Sunday (11am till 4pm)

2 clothes shops beside each other on Wine St seemed to close very suddenly, just a couple of doors up from Fabio's. Everything seemed normal, then 1 day last week there was closing down sale signs up and all the stock was nearly gone. Both closed today, but it is Sunday. FTK was the name of 1, can't remember the other.

Baker Boys has been closed down by the FSA. The report on it doesn’t make for pleasant reading.

Maybe so now but allowing it to get that bad in the first place is the bigger question...

Ball was well dropped & I'm sure this will affect their reputation for a while, I for one will not go back in the short term...(Same with Shells)

But I am grateful to see the FSA doing these inspections locally, can give some confidence that they are being checked...

It’s completely unacceptable that this could have happened. My understanding is that the issue was rampant throughout the premises and not confined to one particular location. It had to be obvious that there was a problem long before it was pointed out to them. And why did it take the FSA to point it out? The conclusion there is that the issue would have continued to be ignored. If that lack of basic hygiene and good housekeeping was ignored in one of their premises what guarantee is there that the exact same thing isn’t happening in the other?

They don’t look very clean themselves!

Found it very strange on their FB page that a post put up by someone that detailed the findings of the FSA was deleted a few minutes later.

Every other restaurant working hard to keep up standards to keep the business going and this lot can’t be bothered to adhere to standard hygiene practices!

Not good for Sligo at all. Hopefully there won't be any more business closures in the town. Feel sorry for the staff.

Very sad about Andersons, great venue, a huge loss for the town and the staff owners.

Very tough time for anyone in business, the VAT rate has gone up, minimum wages, new mandatory pension enrollement on the way ....good for staff but a lot of extra cost and admin for the owners.