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Yet another phone shop in Blackrock...

  • 24-02-2012 01:43PM
    #1
    mailforkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,838 ✭✭✭


    Just popped out to grab a bite to eat there and what was formally the bookies at George's Ave/Main St. is being branded with eMobile and Meteor logos.

    So that's now Meteor, Vodafone, o2, the small phone shop in the shopping centre and a Carphone Warehouse. The only one missing is Three, which of course is my own network (tragic irony).

    Can we get some real shops please.


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  • #2
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    mailforkev wrote: »
    Just popped out to grab a bite to eat there and what was formally the bookies at George's Ave/Main St. is being branded with eMobile and Meteor logos.

    So that's now Meteor, Vodafone, o2, the small phone shop in the shopping centre and a Carphone Warehouse. The only one missing is Three, which of course is my own network (tragic irony).

    Can we get some real shops please    .

    They are real shops, and they wouldn't be there if there wasn't the business for them!


  • #3
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Damn, I was hoping it would be another bookies to give Boyles some competition.


  • #4
    EricPraline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    BDJW wrote: »
    They are real shops, and they wouldn't be there if there wasn't the business for them!
    I think the OP means diverse, locally-run businesses, rather than generic high-street stores (phone shops, convenience stores and so on) that appear on the high street of every UK town and city. See Grafton Street for a worse example of a declining retail area.

    Sad to see Blackrock village in such decline when villages like Ranelagh, Sandymount and Terenure are thriving.


  • #5
    liffeylite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭liffeylite


    Dublin villages generally do well for independent shops. Which one do people feel is the best? I think ranelagh is really good, though it could do with a street market!


  • #6
    mailforkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,838 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    EricPraline wrote: »
    I think the OP means diverse, locally-run businesses, rather than generic high-street stores...
    Sad to see Blackrock village in such decline when villages like Ranelagh, Sandymount and Terenure are thriving.

    Exactly.

    I just noticed that Gentleman Please, the men's clothes shop in Blackrock, shut its doors at the weekend. Walked by it there and the owner has a letter posted on the window.

    Another fairly well established store gone, it really is sad to see the village with so many empty units.


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  • #7
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    EricPraline wrote: »
    I think the OP means diverse, locally-run businesses, rather than generic high-street stores (phone shops, convenience stores and so on) that appear on the high street of every UK town and city. See Grafton Street for a worse example of a declining retail area.

    Sad to see Blackrock village in such decline when villages like Ranelagh, Sandymount and Terenure are thriving.

    Obviously there's no demand for them, would you rather see people waste their money on a business doomed from the start and hire next to no one there or a generic high street store that there is demand for, makes money and creates jobs for the area?


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