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What foreign business or service would you like to see in Ireland?

  • 24-03-2015 01:16AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭


    Any businesses or services you've experienced abroad that you'd like to see in Ireland?
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    H.E.B Supermarket. They're all over the state of Texas.The choice of food is amazing plus they practically have a whole tobacco section that would equal the size of Petersons and JJ Foxes.

    Remember buying cartons of Marlboro for 40 dollars and boxes of King Edwards for only $2! God I miss that place.

    Yes I know! My life is that empty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Mallagio


    Legal prostitution.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,723 ✭✭✭MightyMandarin


    Getting back deposits for returning bottles like you do in Germany, Holland and a few other European countries. I think it's a great idea as bottles get re-used (obviously after cleaning in a factory) and it encourages recycling in society.

    Plus it's handy to get a few euro back after returning a crate of bottles to the shops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    Swiss Federal Railways


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    In Germany there's a tax (pfand) on most bottles and cans you buy to encourage recycling. You bring the bottles/cans/crates to the shop and a special machine gives you a voucher for cash. I think it's 25c for a plastic bottle or can and 9c for a glass bottle and about €4 for a crate. (Open to correction on those prices though.)

    Added bonus, in the student place where I was living, people would call to your house the morning after a house party offering to clean the living room in exchange for the empty bottle and cans. Added extra bonus, (one for the students!), you could exchange 16 empty coke bottles (or water or whatever as long as it was plastic) for a 700ml bottle of vodka. Sure it was ****e vodka, but vodka nonetheless! :)

    Seriously though, overall it's a great idea. No cans or bottles littered around the streets either as the homeless guys collect them and exchange them for food.

    Ah, MightyMandarin, you are indeed mighty, you beat me to it! :/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    International House of Pancakes.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Money for returning bottles like they do in Germany.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Money for returning bottles like they do in Germany.

    Didn't we do something like that until the 80's?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭Tearin It Up


    Allowing dogs on buses and trains here, that would be great.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Banks open at lunchtime and weekends


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    Drive through Starbucks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Water ice. Loved that stuff in america.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Rickshaws. Loads of them. Enough to clog up the streets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Here's one US company that I reckon could be very successful if they opened a franchise over here. Subject to regulations, planning approval etc of course! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Water ice. Loved that stuff in america.
    You ever in a bar that served beer below freezing? Mmmm frothy ice running down the glass over your fingers on a 100 degree day! Heaven. Makes you pish like a motherfcuker though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    International House of Pancakes.

    Agree....nom.

    But even better.........The Cheesecake Factory..... if only for their deep fried mac'n'cheese. Glorious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,937 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    I wish shops in Ireland did gift wrapping like shops did when I lived in Holland.
    Also their local government. Much more efficient than here and no potholes in the road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭policarp


    Water Works.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    i would like to see an atom bomb dropped on this sh1thole


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Lord PuppyMcSnuggle of Cuddleshire


    Abortion clinics, whore houses, hash bars, euthanasia, those crazy Japanese game-shows, and Gladiator fights from Ancient Rome.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,647 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I second IHOP (International House of Pancakes). Divine.

    In N' Out Burger. HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes on our busiest sections of road.

    Dutch style "coffee" shops.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Bars full of Thai girls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,908 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Left turn on red lights.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,740 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    The German Government


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Kauto0709


    IHop


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,467 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Credit card points.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Wanker alert but the only thing I miss about Spain business-wise when I visit home is the strength of the coffee, so places that serve stronger coffee.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Tim Horton.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,286 ✭✭✭shanec1928


    Chipotle


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    Breadtalk


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