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Liffey valley SC loads of units closed

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    #152
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    messrs wrote: »
    Do you know what else is there? From what i remember seeing few months ago there were 4 units there and had seen signs for BK and KFC but didnt hear who else was going in

    Sbarro pizza was planned and pulled out I think and Starbucks was 4th unit which is now open. So one left.


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    #153
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    anewme wrote: »
    Starbucks opened drive through near the Ark roundabout.
    ...and yet another reason to loathe Liffey Valley


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    #154
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,461 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    IMC Cinemas are closed for good in the Square Tallaght. I'd imagine a lot of Tallaght folk will go to Liffey Valley or Vue in Dundrum from now on.


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    #155
    messrs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭messrs


    Ush1 wrote: »
    IMC Cinemas are closed for good in the Square Tallaght. I'd imagine a lot of Tallaght folk will go to Liffey Valley or Vue in Dundrum from now on.

    Do you think some other cinema will go in there? cant imagine them letting it go to waste:confused:


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    #156
    L1011
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    Vue were on the acquisition trail but it would just end up competing with them at LV.


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    #157
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,461 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    messrs wrote: »
    Do you think some other cinema will go in there? cant imagine them letting it go to waste:confused:

    Maybe but I can remember it being empty for quite a while when UCI closed down.


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    #158
    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 15,557 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Ush1 wrote: »
    IMC Cinemas are closed for good in the Square Tallaght. I'd imagine a lot of Tallaght folk will go to Liffey Valley or Vue in Dundrum from now on.

    Awe thats a pity. Hopefully some one maybe Omniplex or the ones who run Swords and the Dundrum cinema take it over.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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    #159
    Stealthirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Stealthirl


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Maybe but I can remember it being empty for quite a while when UCI closed down.

    It was UCI from 1990-2010 and then IMC from 2012-2020
    It sat unused for a week short of 25 months


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    #160
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,461 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Stealthirl wrote: »
    It was UCI from 1990-2010 and then IMC from 2012-2020
    It sat unused for a week short of 25 months

    I must be getting old, it was IMC 8 years but in my mind was still the "new cinema".:pac:


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    #161
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Does anybody have any idea what's being built in the car park of the Liffey Valley Retail Park? Looks like a new unit is being constructed?
    Could it be the new smaller Decathlon?


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    #162
    5500
    Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭5500


    Its a Costa coffee going by the plans on sdccs website

    http://www.sdublincoco.ie/Planning/Details?regref=SD19A%2F0212


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    #163
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    It's in such a weird place. Right in the middle of road. Don't know why they didn't move it further up or back


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    #164
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    So the mass Arcadia walkout a few years ago would just have developed the same result now anyway. Only Wallis is left to go now.


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    #165
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    L1011 wrote: »
    So the mass Arcadia walkout a few years ago would just have developed the same result now anyway. Only Wallis is left to go now.

    Will stay till after Christmas anyway


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    #166
    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Wallis store also to close!
    anewme wrote: »
    last ditch rescue plan to save the group, or what remains of it. That Wallis was one of the most profitable of the group, that’s why it was left there first time round. Family member will lose their job.

    above posts are from May 2019 - long before covid was a word. That group was on life support for a long time. Covid just pushed it along and took it out of its misery


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    #167
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,859 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    silver2020 wrote: »
    above posts are from May 2019 - long before covid was a word. That group was on life support for a long time. Covid just pushed it along and took it out of its misery

    Not adapting with the digital age at the right speed is a huge factor.


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    #168
    Pasteur.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Pasteur.


    messrs wrote: »
    Is that down where the new Burger King and KFC is?

    Only places booming with the coffee shops

    Trouble brewing there eventually with the obesity epidemic


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    #169
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,771 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    And remember folks, do not buy any gift cards / vouchers from any shops. Chances are the shop will be gone next month and the vouchers worthless...


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    #170
    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    unkel wrote: »
    And remember folks, do not buy any gift cards / vouchers from any shops. Chances are the shop will be gone next month and the vouchers worthless...
    That's a wild generalisation. In the greater scheme of things very few shops will close.

    Even Arcadia is less than 600 shops in the whole of the UK and Ireland. A tiny tiny number.

    But for security, buy them with a credit or debit card and you have visa/mastercard protection just in case


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    #171
    Pasteur.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Pasteur.


    silver2020 wrote: »

    That's a wild generalisation. In the greater scheme of things very few shops will close.

    Even Arcadia is less than 600 shops in the whole of the UK and Ireland. A tiny tiny number.

    But for security, buy them with a credit or debit card and you have visa/mastercard protection just in case

    Since when is 600 shops a tiny tiny number

    If you said small that would be ok


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    #172
    Washout
    Registered Users Posts: 2,911 ✭✭✭Washout


    Pasteur. wrote: »
    Since when is 600 shops a tiny tiny number

    If you said small that would be ok

    there isnt a chance that there is only 600 shops. there must have been at least 50 minumum in dublin alone to do with arcadia


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    #173
    jrosen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭jrosen


    Not a chance would I buy vouchers for individual stores anymore. Not worth the risk.


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    #174
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,771 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    silver2020 wrote: »

    That's a wild generalisation. In the greater scheme of things very few shops will close.

    Of course, but I just wouldn't take the risk. Give a present. Or give cash. Or if you must, give a one4all voucher.

    Many people in Ireland have been stung with shop / restaurant vouchers in the last few years and chances are this year is going to be worse than any year before.


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    #175
    Pasteur.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Pasteur.


    How safe is one4all lol


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    #176
    L1011
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    Owned by the State, indirectly (An Post). Not going to get more secure.


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    #177
    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    L1011 wrote: »
    Owned by the State, indirectly (An Post). Not going to get more secure.

    you're two years out of date with your information.

    Sold Nov 2018 to Blackhawk Network
    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/an-post-sells-one4all-in-100m-deal-1.3692440

    But just as safe as its part of a $60billion+ turnover company (Albertsons USA) that has about $2 billion profit a year


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    #178
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,226 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    There's a generic Liffey Valley voucher that works in all the shops there, that wouldn't be a bad option either.


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    #179
    Pasteur.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭Pasteur.


    Wouldn't cash be simpler


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    #180
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    silver2020 wrote: »
    you're two years out of date with your information.

    Sold Nov 2018 to Blackhawk Network
    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/an-post-sells-one4all-in-100m-deal-1.3692440

    But just as safe as its part of a $60billion+ turnover company (Albertsons USA) that has about $2 billion profit a year

    That got less media coverage than I'd have thought!

    They're also Central Bank regulated, something a single store giftcard isn't.

    The Liffey Valley and mulitcentre ones are also regulated; they're operated by Wirecard, who have gone under but I believe that function is being taken on by Santander.


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    #181
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,641 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I see the former Arc/Elms has reopened, but I managed to forget its new name by the time I'd driven past the Foxhunter, so can't find if it has any web presence


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