Should UK stores change their brand names for Ireland?

Kermit.de.frog · 02-09-2014 07:50PM

Red Nissan wrote: »

Thirty years ago, like in the last century I used to tour and camp roadside with the little chislers.

One can hardly pull over today anywhere in Ireland! I feel your pain, at least I have the memories.

I support the rights of travellers to privacy but I think you are a little harsh on the settled community.

Having said that the bungalows painted in the most vivid white and worse take away a lot from the landscape.

Buona Fortuna · 02-09-2014 07:59PM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Ah now, that's a bit much. The infrastructure itself is fantastic, if a tad unpleasant but there has to be worse in other countries.

I got stuck, not moving, on the M25 for about 6 hours once .

md23040 · 02-09-2014 08:12PM

The individual has replaced by the massed produced for the collective,and every strand of society has been homogenised by big industry. Individualism and self-identity died out in the 1980’s.

Youth culture is dead, there are no more Punks, Mods, Rockers, New Wavers, Teds, Goths, Morrissey lookalikes etc, these have been replaced with an homogenised collective of youth in Penneys hoodies, Jack Wills or Hollister.

People even try to impossibly differentiate themselves by paying over the odds for a phone like an Apple iPhone, when over 70% of all phones out there are either this or a Samsung. Most creative businesses have been taken over and become homogenised, bland and a mass produced industry - like the music industry,fashion industry, film industry, retail industry, communication industry etc.

We are plugged as near into the matrix as possible, and UK retailers rebranding bollox is just the tip of the iceberg of individuality being lost.

shruikan2553 · 02-09-2014 08:25PM

We still keep these UK businesses but we just pretend they aren't UK businesses while doing the exact same in them as we would in the UK business.

Jawgap · 02-09-2014 08:35PM

md23040 wrote: »

The individual has replaced by the massed produced for the collective,and every strand of society has been homogenised by big industry. Individualism and self-identity died out in the 1980’s.

Youth culture is dead, there are no more Punks, Mods, Rockers, New Wavers, Teds, Goths, Morrissey lookalikes etc, these have been replaced with an homogenised collective of youth in Penneys hoodies, Jack Wills or Hollister.

People even try to impossibly differentiate themselves by paying over the odds for a phone like an Apple iPhone, when over 70% of all phones out there are either this or a Samsung. Most creative businesses have been taken over and become homogenised, bland and a mass produced industry - like the music industry,fashion industry, film industry, retail industry, communication industry etc.

We are plugged as near into the matrix as possible, and UK retailers rebranding bollox is just the tip of the iceberg of individuality being lost.

I really don't miss all that you describe - I don't feel like I've subsumed my identity into some hive-like collective.

I like my i-phone, my i-pad and my trans-Atlantic entertainments - it is fantastic technology, even if it is both cleverly marketed and over-priced. In short I don't really miss the 1980s - if the choice is between the dreary, individualism of 80s Ireland and the go-anywhere-see-anything wonder of today, I know which I would prefer.

I like that it's no longer a big deal to jump on a flight to London, or that I've a Tesco just down the road, or that there are farmers markets within easy driving distance (or that I can order whatever I want over the internet).

I prefer to embrace today than pine for yesterday..........

Jawgap · 02-09-2014 08:38PM

md23040 wrote: »

Of all the places you could have choosen from in the Cotswolds - WTF, Chipping Norton...

.....as opposed to Chipping Sodbury, just outside Bristol (now there's a city that's reinvented itself!! - the good burghers of Waterford could do worse than take a leaf out of their book).

Paramite Pie · 02-09-2014 09:03PM

Yeah because the UK is famous for it's Starbucks, McDonalds, Burger King, TGI Fridays, Hard Rock Cafes, KFC ..... it's the Plantations all over again..... :pac:

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Having said that the bungalows painted in the most vivid white and worse take away a lot from the landscape.

When ye Urbanites clean up the city streets then you can complain about what we did with the countryside.;)

Steve F · 02-09-2014 09:20PM

Wonder how the thread starter feels about McDonalds and Burger King....oh wait...they're American that's OK then

Kiwi in IE · 02-09-2014 09:29PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Tesco are getting a good kicking in the Irish market now and i'm delighted because they have been ripping people off in Ireland since they came here and refuse point blank to show separate accounts here because they know themselves.

Why do people shop there then? If people are getting ripped off in Tesco, as you claim, then the same products must be cheaper in Dunnes and Supervalue? I havn't found that to be the case myself.

mikemac1 · 02-09-2014 09:35PM

I dread the thought of bringing back yellow pack

Smiles35 · 02-09-2014 09:50PM

Only brand I want to see go is Sharwoods. Such an obvious price-gouge for little jars of spices.

Karl Stein · 02-09-2014 11:44PM

I'd be pretty nationalistic but UK chain stores is way down my list of 'things-to-get-bothered-by'. As for city centres? Well city centres are city centres. The shops will come and go, corporations rise and fall - it's the city architecture that's important to us historically and that's what I'd be more concerned about.

What a lot of people forget is that you only own something while you're alive and that's why buildings are listed - it stops some **** with more money than sense destroying our heritage.