Limerick_Lass wrote: » Lads this thread is so depressing to read .... is it just getting worse so?
ongarboy wrote: » Best of luck in your new job! It does seem a slightly peripheral location but i guess the fact it's a joint bus and train station means it does get a constant flow of passengers. I'd say AMT Coffee which has a kiosk there will not be pleased at the new competition! Separately, Paddy Powers is taking Ladbrokes old shop next to South's pub.
leo505050 wrote: » I seen your man that owns Enzo's talking with the builders in the former Munster rugby store site, O'Connell St. two separate occasions in fact. Maybe Enzo's are going to relocate. Their business hasn't been as busy as was in previous years although the takeaway side still does really well. I think it'd be great if the restaurant side moved but the takeaway side was kept in William St.
BobMc wrote: » heard some form of fish and chip restaurant
zulutango wrote: » That block is becoming Limerick's junk food strip.
jaxxx wrote: » It's been claimed that by 2030, Ireland will become the most obese country in the world. Fairly hard to argue with that.
pone2012 wrote: » Did anyone notice a new massage parlour pop up near Pery St?? Phoenix massage or something along those lines??
mrsoundie wrote: » Pop up and massage parlour, a poor choice of words.
pone2012 wrote: » Perhaps I was just curious as I havent noticed it in the past..
mrsoundie wrote: » Not the popping up I hope?
source wrote: » There's a Top service station opening where Great Gas were on the Dock Road.
dr.fuzzenstein wrote: » May they do better than their predecessor. Can't see much room on the Dock Road for yet another filling station.
Special Circumstances wrote: » Inver in fairgreen are lowest around I'd say @ 139.9 for unleaded.
highlydebased wrote: » The old great gas station there used also close for lunch!
dunworth1 wrote: » Natural woodcrafts Ireland new shop opening on Saturday in 19 upper William street.https://www.facebook.com/naturalwoodcraftsireland
MrLaurel wrote: » Nice to see a proper craft business going to that street. Hopefully will encourage others
dr.fuzzenstein wrote: » The problem with rents and rates (anywhere really) is, they encourage only big, international franchise operations, who employ minimum staff at minimum wage and who can well afford to piss away a lot of money on stupidly massive running costs of even a small shop in as they have a very wide base and can live on paper thin margins, since they would have hundreds or thousands of shops internationally and it all adds up. Small, local and in any way independent business can go fcuk themselves unless they want to live on the tiniest sliver of very meager profits. At some stage it has been realised that we can charge silly money to businesses, if they have the base, they can afford to. It just means that opening a small shop, unless it is of the highly exclusive kind that charges telephone number amounts for very exclusive and high end items, will not enable anyone to make any kind of living. As a small to mid sized retailer you have to go online, brick and mortar shops now belong to global players. And they have helped that fact in a big way. Their margins may get squeezed, but you can be certain that putting the running of a shop out of reach for anyone but the big guys with the deep pockets was more than a happy coincidence. But city center and small, artisan, independent retailers will never happen again.
