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Petition Lodged To Wind Up Dunnes Stores

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  • #32
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Pottler wrote: »
    Marks and sparks used to be dead common. Did they go upmarket?

    They sell posh cakes and things with balsamic reductions


  • #33
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,000 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    I shop in M&S

    /adjust monocle
    One's household staff receive the delivery from Marks & Spencers. One does not demean oneself with these trivialities themselves. ;)

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  • #34
    michellie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭michellie


    It wasn't built in Kilkenny, it was north Waterford ;) :P

    Unreal building by the way, such a waste ! I think the library has opened in there.


  • #35
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    wait ... what ?

    please explain in what universe the average Dunnes customer would do their weekly shopping in Sainsbury's or Waitrose ?

    Dunnes supermarket isn't particularly cheap. I agree Waitrose would be a different market, but I'd say Sainsbury's wouldn't be much of a stretch. Anyway, this is after hours, my statements don't have to make sense, I just want a Sainsbury's or Waitrose

    Woooo 2000th post!!!


  • #36
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    michellie wrote: »
    It wasn't built in Kilkenny, it was north Waterford ;) :P

    Unreal building by the way, such a waste ! I think the library has opened in there.

    The copper used on the building must be worth the €21 million alone.


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  • #37
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    michellie wrote: »
    It wasn't built in Kilkenny, it was north Waterford ;) :P

    Unreal building by the way, such a waste ! I think the library has opened in there.
    Yeah, Nama has it on its books. It's just another lender they're running.


  • #38
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Pottler wrote: »
    Marks and sparks used to be dead common. Did they go upmarket?

    When they barred phasers


  • #39
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    When they barred phasers
    I always felt phasers added a bit of common charm to the place. Lifeless without him tbh.


  • #40
    joydivision
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 735 ✭✭✭joydivision


    Its funny as a kid you got slagged off if yer ma shopped in dunnes in my school . It was a really rough area too .
    Now with lidl and the likes its now posh to shop there .


  • #41
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    No harm if Dunnes were forced to close.


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  • #42
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    No harm if Dunnes were forced to close.
    Mmmm, unless your website lists Dunnes as one of your best customers...


  • #43
    Storm 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,293 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    No harm if Dunnes were forced to close.


    More on the dole...............Am no thank you.


  • #44
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Mad how people shop their thinking its an Irish company and its suppliers are irish.

    Then slate Aldi/Lidl for being "foreign" when they sell more irish produce then Dunnes.


  • #45
    laugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    This is piss all to a company likes Dunnes.


  • #46
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    No harm if Dunnes were forced to close.


    How do you arrive at that conclusion? You realise they employ 18,000 people directly and many more indirectly rely on them- suppliers, warehouse etc? I don't think you'd have many vouching for what a great company it is, but the vast majority would be content with it being sold as a going business or being changed to a public company.

    If they do close, Tesco have a lot more free reign in their pricing and less competition is bad.


  • #47
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    laugh wrote: »
    This is piss all to a company likes Dunnes.
    Hmm, 22 mil in one lash of actual cold hard cash is actually a lot of dollars, not too many with that laying around. I think Ireland is turning into a vampire state willing to do anything to suck in cash, at any human cost, just to keep the state going. It would start selling it's peoples blood if it thought it could get away with it. I really do. Between Revenue and NAMA, they seem determined to close as many businesses as possible. Madness.


  • #48
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Pottler wrote: »
    Marks and sparks used to be dead common. Did they go upmarket?


    M and S was NEVER common!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF like?


  • #49
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXxkyftpxs


  • #50
    Storm 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,293 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXxkyftpxs

    Seen that before, its not even funny and neither is he.


  • #51
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭touts


    The Dunne family, like most multi multi millionaires, didnt get rich by paying their suppliers in full and on time. This one they pushed a little too far but my guess is it will be settled for far less than the total claimed and viewed as a good bit of business within Dunnes.


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  • #52
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,466 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    touts wrote: »
    The Dunne family, like most multi multi millionaires, didnt get rich by paying their suppliers in full and on time. This one they pushed a little too far but my guess is it will be settled for far less than the total claimed and viewed as a good bit of business within Dunnes.
    Or they go to the wall and close down.

    I don't spend a red cent in the place. It is the embodiment of cute hoorism. It operates as a virtual monopoly in most towns. Thankfully I can spend my money elsewhere and not bother with such a place.


  • #53
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    Or they go to the wall and close down.

    I don't spend a red cent in the place. It is the embodiment of cute hoorism. It operates as a virtual monopoly in most towns. Thankfully I can spend my money elsewhere and not bother with such a place.

    i hope you don't shop in tesco either then by that logic?

    @storm 10, yes it is, and yes he is.


  • #54
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    phasers wrote: »
    Every time I go to Tesco their veg is half dead,

    It comes back to life?...neat, the veg in my supermarket is dead.:(


  • #55
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Pottler wrote: »
    I always felt phasers added a bit of common charm to the place. Lifeless without him tbh.

    He's a sound lad, that fellow.


  • #56
    StudentDad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭StudentDad


    If Dunnes owe 20 odd million they should pay, simple as. If they have to be wound up to do that, so be it.

    SD


  • #57
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,926 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Big Bottom wrote: »
    The debt should be waived if it means saving all those jobs.
    It won't really make a difference to jobs - the food still needs to be made, delivered and sold. Quite a few retailers would be willing to snap up their operation, just like H Williams or Superquinn were snapped up.


  • #58
    Lantus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,873 ✭✭✭Lantus


    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    How do you arrive at that conclusion? You realise they employ 18,000 people directly and many more indirectly rely on them- suppliers, warehouse etc? I don't think you'd have many vouching for what a great company it is, but the vast majority would be content with it being sold as a going business or being changed to a public company.

    If they do close, Tesco have a lot more free reign in their pricing and less competition is bad.

    The same sort of argument re interdependancy in the economy is why we bailed out the banks instead of just letting them fail.

    How many more 'special cases' are there looming that we simply cannot let fail. I'm not advocating we let them fail. Simply the irony of a capitilist system in which failure of the biggest results in being saved at the expense of the people.

    If they are too big to fail then its no longer capitalism as we have been brought up to understand it.


  • #59
    Corruptedmorals
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,195 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Lantus wrote: »

    The same sort of argument re interdependancy in the economy is why we bailed out the banks instead of just letting them fail.

    How many more 'special cases' are there looming that we simply cannot let fail. I'm not advocating we let them fail. Simply the irony of a capitilist system in which failure of the biggest results in being saved at the expense of the people.

    If they are too big to fail then its no longer capitalism as we have been brought up to understand it.


    The thought of 18,000 job losses is what I am thinking of. I have worked there and I still work in retail. It is doing incredibly badly and all new jobs are temp contracts. So if half of those were working again within a year that would be a miracle. I can't welcome a decision that would let that happen. Knowing exactly how they operate, I would be more than happy for it to be sold as a going business or even changed to a public company. Drapery is not turning a profit really but grocery is. They also own a lot of their stores outright, so I'm sure they can lay their hands on that money somehow.


  • #60
    kodoherty93
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭kodoherty93


    Dunnes must have been ignoring the company and then send a petition to the High count to scare them to wind up. It sounds like a sly tactic from the good wife.

    But at the end of the day Dunnes are going to have the best legal team that Ireland can offer so I wont be counting on the the company closing anytime soon


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  • #61
    Dicky Pride
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Dicky Pride


    I live across the road from the Ferrybank shopping centre. It's absolutely massive and has been completed and empty since 2008.

    Dunnes took a gamble on the building, but then the building industry went bust and all the houses that were supposed to be built in the area never materialised Dunnes pulled out. So many people suffered serious losses as a result of the downturn but Dunnes are unwilling to face theirs.

    Like a punter in paddy power on a Saturday afternoon, they gambled and they lost. Only difference is they are refusing to pay.


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