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Spar, Centra, Mace, Londis etc

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  • #62
    oppenheimer1
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    What I dislike about these shops the most is the awful, awdul shopfronts. They are hideous. The ones on O'Connell St. in Dublin are nothing short of a disgrace. Theres one of them with a "temporary sign" up almost three years! Special conservation area my arse. It and its kind along with mary meadiatrix really ruin the street, after the council spending all that money on it.


  • #63
    grenache
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    Dudess wrote: »
    Is any other town/city in Ireland being swallowed up by a sea of Subway, like Cork?
    There is now one less Subway in Cork. The store on South Main St is gone. Been replaced by some New Yorker bagel shop. But yeah, there is absolute deluge of them. There is ten that i know of in Cork and eight in Limerick. Quite a lot given the populations of both cities.


  • #64
    nibtrix
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    Dudess wrote: »
    Is any other town/city in Ireland being swallowed up by a sea of Subway, like Cork?

    In Dublin, there are three Subway's on Baggot Street alone! Not to mention five more within ten minutes walk...


  • #65
    Giblet
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    darkman2 wrote: »
    Anyone think that, em, there is way too many of each of these shops opening up everywhere? Im not complaining about the convienience - they are convienient (and expensive) but they are everywhere now. Does a new Spar open every day or something? Some streets in Dublin now have 2 or 3 Spars on them. Then you have Mace, Londis and the rest. UK chains incidentally. Our towns and cities are no different now to any below average UK city. It's hardly supprising that in a certain UK shop in Dublin I use to work some British people now and again genuinely did'nt realise they were not in the UK!

    Also they all look the same. Why do they all have to look exactly the same? I know they are brands but surely a bit of thought could go into the shop front designs etc. Terrible what is being allowed to happen to our towns and Dublin by British multinationals (and to a lesser evil extent American ones). All our streets look the same. Spars everywhere.

    Oh and in case anyone says more of these shops mean cheaper things - I hope people don't genuinely believe these shops are competing with each other on price in this country...Near me is a Centra and a Mace within 500m of each other. 2L bottle of coke €2.45 in both of them. Rip off.

    (just an example)

    Musgraves own Centra, Londis, Mace, Daybreak and Supervalu.
    BWG own Spar.

    They're both Irish.

    You're an idiot.


  • #66
    TheZohanS
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    Giblet wrote: »
    You're an idiot.

    Banned


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  • #67
    admiralofthefleet
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    the symbol groups are the way forward, so what if the shop fronts are nasty looking


  • #68
    Tchaikovsky
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    yoshytoshy wrote: »
    I don't understand ?

    Surely full time employment is good for people ,if more people were part time ,then it probably wouldn't be worth the employers while having all the staff on the books.
    Granted. I was just talking about employees here on student visas, where the law states that they can only work part-time. If the employers are aware of their status and still employe them full-time, then they should be fined and the employees could be deported.


  • #69
    gerrycollins
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    starbelgrade wrote: »
    There are 9 McDonalds in the centre of Paris, including outlets on their most famous streets - Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Boulevard Montmartre, Rue de Rennes & Boulevard Saint-Michel. They also have Spars.

    Rome has 3 Burger Kings & several Maccie D's.

    at least one of the mcdonalds in Rome is inside a big fancy old building converted not a new monstrousity


  • #70
    starbelgrade
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    gerrycollins wrote: »
    at least one of the mcdonalds in Rome is inside a big fancy old building converted not a new monstrousity

    That makes it so much better. We should convert all our old buildings to fast food outlets. In fact, I'm starting a facebook page to have the National Museum converted into a shopping centre.


  • #71
    crushproof
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    gerrycollins wrote: »
    at least one of the mcdonalds in Rome is inside a big fancy old building converted not a new monstrousity

    The McDonalds in Bray is in the old town hall....no monstrousity there!:rolleyes:

    Ps, the swift expansion of Subway is scary...it's like Starbucks popping up everywhere in thats Simpsons episode!!


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  • #72
    Kipperhell
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    gerrycollins wrote: »
    at least one of the mcdonalds in Rome is inside a big fancy old building converted not a new monstrousity

    Aren't the ones in the the city centre (Dublin) in old building too? I don't remember them knocking down anything to build them. In fact I remember some of the things there before hand. Burger King on O'Connell street used to be a big Chinese restaurant.

    Any way franchises means most of the corner shops are actually independent businesses. In fact McDonald's is very similar just the supply and style is more controlled and it costs a lot more. Spar is not an Irish company but Spar Ireland is owned by an Irish company although I though Jameson owned it for a while which is no longer Irish. Spar is a little more complex as it has a parent company that doesn't control that much and doesn't really own it subsidiaries AFAIR.

    I remember when Subway only had two stores as the guy who owned the franchise didn't know how to get it to work. Who ever took over figured it out.


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