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Shopping in Northern Ireland
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was it worth going to the outlet centre??we heading uo north on mon and dont know where to start,,lolanotherlostie wrote: »I headed up today. 20 minutes to get through Newry at 11 o'clock (I was going on to Banbridge but the traffic looked like I was backed up into the city from the end of the dual carriageway - on a Wednesday). They also said there was rock blasting going on from 12-4pm and that there would be delays on the relief road.
The Outlet at Banbridge was pretty empty and very few stores offering sterling to euro parity. I'm underwhelmed by this place, I must admit.
On then to Belfast to do the most of the shopping - Debenhams were offering 85p to the Euro. I reckon I saved over €100 by buying stuff there instead of paying the extortionate price they charge down south (slightly greater than 50% whereas the exchange rate was adding 17%).
And finally to Sprucefield on the way home, in with a list of items for Sainsburys but I still managed to spend a fortune. It was absolutely not busy, but the off licence looked like it had suffered recently. They had no regular bottles of Southern Comfort (@€;14), and no Miller (MGD), so I came home via Newry (after 7pm) where it was equally quiet, but the shelves looked pretty bare and still no Southern Comfort
There is a new Next Home opening beside Sainsburys this Friday, and Currys had a sign saying they were already reducing the price of VAT rated items.0 -
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Got my christmas beers yesterday.
2 Crates of bulmers
15x750ml Smirnoff ice
4x500ml WKD
1 Litre Vodka = €125
2 crates here alone is 106.!
Smirnoff Ice is 7euro for 1
That's great value, i'v gone up north a few times and buy a bit of alcohol but i'll def be heading up before christmas, and now with the reduced VAT rates in UK we'll be singing all the way up the M1
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Went up North yday to a couple of places. Took 2.5 hours from just outside Wicklow town.
First stopped off at The Westwood Shopping Centre, there's Asda here they were offering .83 if you wanted to pay in Euro. Found the following good prices.
Asda
24 Charmin toilet paper £5/€6.02 v local Tesco 4 charmin €3.95
Quatro Razor £3/€3.61 v cheapest I could find was €10.99
Micky Finns drink £4.62/€5.57 v €13.49
Good value on washing powder and shower gels.
Superdrug
16 ibuprofen £.99
16 paracetomal £.39
Tommy girl 30ml £9.99
Headed then to Forestside and the clothes prices were different, alot of shops using .66 as you can see the sterling/euro prices on them. In Sainsburys they had a 40" Sony Bravia tele for £599.
Stopped in Tesco (got .84 rate) in Newtownbreda on the way back and got the following -
Smirnoff 1 litre £13/€15.48 v local tesco €23.99 not sure if that includes or excludes 20% discount they're running at the mo
Tropicana 1.75 litre orange juice £2/ €2.38 v local tesco €4.99
Pringles tube .74c/€.88 v local tesco on offer 2 for €3
Ribena 1Ltr £2/€2.38 v local tesco €4.15
Shaws Ham £1.04/€1.24 v €3.49 (50% free)
French Fancies cakes £1.76/€2.09 v €3.25
Lindemans wine x 3 £10/€11.90 v €6.18 each here incl 20% discount @ tesco
Jack Daniels 70cl £16.54/€19.69 v special at tesco €26.89 usually €28.89
Now 71 CD £12.71/€15.13 V €19.95
Good value on meat and clothes too.
Last stop was Sprucefield, huge Marks and spencers here.:)0 -
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Mmmm! LOVE JD, so i'll def be getting that on my next visit.Posted this twice -
Went up North yday to a couple of places. Took 2.5 hours from just outside Wicklow town.
First stopped off at The Westwood Shopping Centre, there's Asda here they were offering .83 if you wanted to pay in Euro. Found the following good prices.
Asda
24 Charmin toilet paper £5/€6.02 v local Tesco 4 charmin €3.95
Quatro Razor £3/€3.61 v cheapest I could find was €10.99
Micky Finns drink £4.62/€5.57 v €13.49
Good value on washing powder and shower gels.
Superdrug
16 ibuprofen £.99
16 paracetomal £.39
Tommy girl 30ml £9.99
Headed then to Forestside and the clothes prices were different, alot of shops using .66 as you can see the sterling/euro prices on them. In Sainsburys they had a 40" Sony Bravia tele for £599.
Stopped in Tesco (got .84 rate) in Newtownbreda on the way back and got the following -
Smirnoff 1 litre £13/€15.48 v local tesco €23.99 not sure if that includes or excludes 20% discount they're running at the mo
Tropicana 1.75 litre orange juice £2/ €2.38 v local tesco €4.99
Pringles tube .74c/€.88 v local tesco on offer 2 for €3
Ribena 1Ltr £2/€2.38 v local tesco €4.15
Shaws Ham £1.04/€1.24 v €3.49 (50% free)
French Fancies cakes £1.76/€2.09 v €3.25
Lindemans wine x 3 £10/€11.90 v €6.18 each here incl 20% discount @ tesco
Jack Daniels 70cl £16.54/€19.69 v special at tesco €26.89 usually €28.89
Now 71 CD £12.71/€15.13 V €19.95
Good value on meat and clothes too.
Last stop was Sprucefield, huge Marks and spencers here.:)
aoife161 you got a lot of shops in, in a day. Hats off to you.0 -
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ronbyrne2005 wrote: »Smirnoff and Bacardi one litre bottles now £11 in Sainsburys this weekend, so less than half the price of Tesco Dublin.
That's exceptional value
I've not been up yet but getting tempting.
The fact that I don't own a car kinda limits what you can do, you know. I'll rope someone in
I don't know what distributors charge ROI pub owners but it's getting to the stage where pub owners should be checking out if they can make a saving on these btls of spirits
Hope they don't buy all the stock!0 -
That's exceptional value
I've not been up yet but getting tempting.
The fact that I don't own a car kinda limits what you can do, you know. I'll rope someone in
I don't know what distributors charge ROI pub owners but it's getting to the stage where pub owners should be checking out if they can make a saving on these btls of spirits
Hope they don't buy all the stock!
Was just thinking that myself. Even if publicans pay 20euro for a litre thats only around 50cent for a shot and they sell it for 4-5 euro in pubs in Dublin! It's a joke down south. Of course it would be illegal for publicans to import stock from North without paying the correct customs and duties here in South but do you think the shadier publicans would be concerned with such legalities A lot of them water down the vodka too in nightclubs where drunken punters won't notice the difference 0 -
ronbyrne2005 wrote: »= Of course it would be illegal for publicans to import stock from North without paying the correct customs and duties here in South but do you think the shadier publicans would be concerned with such legalities
What you talking about Ronbyrne2005, pub owners take ethics very seriously!
Do you not remember early this year Tesco were selling crates of 24 cans at cost price?
The pub owners didn't like cheap drink this one bit, it encourages binge drinking (not to mention their profit margins). The Vitners association were giving out on the radio and newspapers.
Expensive drink ftw!
Sorry, I'm dragging this thread offtopic, bring on the bargains folks0 -
What you talking about Ronbyrne2005, pub owners take ethics very seriously!
Do you not remember early this year Tesco were selling crates of 24 cans at cost price?
The pub owners didn't like cheap drink this one bit, it encourages binge drinking (not to mention their profit margins). The Vitners association were giving out on the radio and newspapers.
Expensive drink ftw!
Sorry, I'm dragging this thread offtopic, bring on the bargains folks
Yeah, wait till you hear the friends of publicans and anti drink groups on radio next week complaining about the drink promotions in run up to xmas.0 -
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Back from Newry today - have been going up nearly every 2nd Thursday early for the past 5 months and today is the busiest I've ever seen it. Huge queues and no parking even at 10.30 :eek: but none the less 3 weeks worth of shopping and drink for around 380 euro - cannot complain Just dreading attempting to go again - even midweek before Christmas!
Offers today in Newry Sainsburys were
Celebrations/Roses tins for £4.49
Smirnoff 1l and Barcardi 1l £11 (saw a woman wheeling out a whole trolleyfull of around 6 cases of 12 bottles of Smirnoff :eek:)
Guinness 2 x 12 cans for £18
3 x Kumala Shiraz Red wine for £10
3 X Le Piat Dor for £10
Also big bars of Aero for a £1
The off license today looked like the night before Good Friday x 100 - serious amount of drink made its way down South going by these eyes!0 -
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