What is it about Ireland that makes UK retail fail here?

Uh huh. Noticed these are £1, €2.50 here 🤨

I was buying airfryer liners in Super valu, 4 euros for 4. Then one day I found myself in a Dealz and found airfryer liners, 30 for 2 euros. It's safe to say where I'll be buying my airliners from now on (or in about 2 years time when Im starting to run low).

Tesco are serial objectors to new Aldi and Lidl stores.

That sort of crap just shouldn't be allowed.

I heard someone on the radio during the week saying the rules around objections are going to get changed. No-longer will someone from Kerry be able to object to something being built in Donegal. I wonder how they will stop Tesco (or an anonymous Tesco employee) objecting to a Lidl being built though.

M&S had very few Irish suppliers so were more exposed to Brexit than others.

Is that the same M&S that still have 7 shops here?

I've seen special offers in Dunnes that were still cheaper in Dealz.

Sports Direct bought Heatons, who were an Irish company. I think the poster you're quoting is aware that they were Irish originally.

Similar low-end of the market UK department stores have tried and failed here like Peacocks, and also Menarys from NI who have retreated back to closer to the border but do still have a tiny number of stores.

Omni in Santry seems to often be a testing ground for UK and other non domestic retailers. Had a Menarys, had a Peacocks, had some Polish kids clothes shop. Think it might have been the first Nandos also, that's still there.

I find general lack of stock is a huge problem with UK stores here. Homebase seemed to be trying to sell off it's dwindling inventory for years before it actually left, same with Argos.

An obvious one is Curry's. Every year parents go looking last minute for laptops for kids heading off to college and every year there's not nearly enough stock allocated to Irish stores to cover the demand. Same with sales events.

They're essentially leaving money on the table by not having adequate stock here. It's like they're unwilling to commit to Irish stores, in case they decide to abandon them down the line.

Yes it is. But it's one hell of a difference. Easy knowing no TDs vape.

The practice in the past was to put 50 cent onto a packet of cigarettes.

The result: Will I vape less? No. Will I simply buy my vape juice in the UK? Yes. Even with delivery costs its way cheaper than here now.

The carphone warehouse is another British store that is no longer in Ireland.

screwfix have a sight of stores here the one in tralee is very well priced I'm hearing know a lad that got a shower in there for half the price in another major store in the other side of town

be interesting to see will they stick it out here

High taxes in Ireland, plus import duties on imports from UK since brexit, plus too much red tape on filling out tariff numbers, country of origin etc on every little thing that is imported from UK.

Always worth checking local independent hardware stores / co-ops; often have things cheaper than any of the chains.