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    #3692
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    coylemj wrote: »
    Edit: Does DHL provide a service like PM
    There are 4 I know of

    parcelmotel -nightline
    parcel wizard - DPD
    addresspal -an post
    parcel connect -fastway

    Parcel connect is nearest me but I have never used it. They deliver to shops or cafes etc
    https://www.parcelconnect.ie/map/


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    #3693
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I've never actually used PM but I thought it was exclusive to Nightline. When I used they called when I wasn't there and dropped to the nearest location.

    The PM service makes it independent of the original carrier. You tell the vendor to deliver to the Nightline address in NI with your membership number in the address field so it could arrive in the Nightline depot via DHL, UPS, DPD or anyone. Nightline then ships it to your designated collection point in Dublin, sends you an alert with a PIN number to open the locker and charges you €3.95 for the service.

    Per L1011's response, the DHL service sounds like it requires you to contact the original shipper to ask them to divert the delivery to a DHL collection point but not every shipper allows this and in a lot of cases, you have no advance notice of who is involved so you can't phone or e-mail anyone to divert the delivery.

    For example, my last purchase from Amazon UK was a spare part sold and fulfilled by third party vendor, there was zero information about the shipping company in the e-mail which told me it had been dispatched so there was no way I could have had it diverted. The PM service gets around this issue.


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    #3694
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Club 92 formerly Blinkers is to close for good at the end of 2018 due to the racecourse redevelopment.


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    #3695
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Club 92 formerly Blinkers is to close for good at the end of 2018 due to the racecourse redevelopment.

    many good nights up there, havent been in about 5 years (too old :P)


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    #3696
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Union Cafe opened in Churchtown, doing very good business, always packed out.

    Had a coffee and cake, very nice. The place was a bit disorganized, they overcharged me, it's a new place so its understandable.


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    #3697
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,300 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I was in Aldi in Frascati SC for the first time today. It is a very nice store. It has a lot of foods there & middle shelf items that are very cheap. It only has about 6 tills in it so it is probably smaller than the stores in both Sallynoggin & Sandyford.

    Frascati has also got into the Christmas spirit already with having a lot of Christmas trees & lights located around the inside of it. The M&S Christmas shop is now located beside Vodafone. It is there because the old units which previously housed McDonalds & Vodafone is boarded up due to builders in there doing work in the older part of the centre. They even have a Santa Claus with a polar bear beside it behind the front beam in the new atrium near the new entrance. They are also reindeer & a fox around some Christmas trees outside the new McDonalds.

    The new travel agent opening there will be called Freedom Travel. It's said to open in November but inside the atrium; it said it will be open in 2019.


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    #3698
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Someone posted a while back but it certainly looks like the former fruit and veg shop in deansgrange will be an O'Brien's offie


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    #3699
    Jacinta086
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭Jacinta086


    Five guys opened in the Frascati Centre yesterday, i popped up for lunch.
    It was nice but the chips were ridiculously salty and the amount of staff behind the counter was obscene - maybe 15 people shouting at each other.

    Not the best set up for collections either; just people shouting rather than a screen showing the order number.


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    #3700
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    Someone posted a while back but it certainly looks like the former fruit and veg shop in deansgrange will be an O'Brien's offie

    That someone was me, I spotted some work going on to the front of the premises a few weeks ago and there was an O'Briens van parked outside but I've seen no activity since. It subsequently occurred to me that O'Briens could have been delivering wine to the Saba takeway next door so I might have put two and two together and come up with five!

    How do you reckon it now 'certainly looks like' O'Briens are involved?


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    #3701
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    coylemj wrote: »
    That someone was me, I spotted some work going on to the front of the premises a few weeks ago and there was an O'Briens van parked outside but I've seen no activity since. It subsequently occurred to me that O'Briens could have been delivering wine to the Saba takeway next door so I might have put two and two together and come up with five!

    How do you reckon it now 'certainly looks like' O'Briens are involved?

    Same colour green as their stores, same set up on the shelves but also the game usual big green sign under the til.

    It does seem small though.


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    #3702
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Noshington on SCR closed. I think they had a fire. Its been shut about 6 weeks, no sign of any work going on.


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    #3703
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Jacinta086 wrote: »
    Five guys opened in the Frascati Centre yesterday, i popped up for lunch.
    It was nice but the chips were ridiculously salty and the amount of staff behind the counter was obscene - maybe 15 people shouting at each other.

    Not the best set up for collections either; just people shouting rather than a screen showing the order number.

    I was in the new McDonalds soon after they opened, I ordered and paid from the self-service screen and was watching the screen above the counter which shows the numbers of the orders being processed but when my order came out, the server simply called out the contents of the tray instead of my order number!


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    #3704
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    Same colour green as their stores, same set up on the shelves but also the game usual big green sign under the til.

    It does seem small though.

    If it (the old Get Fresh shop on Deansgrange Road) was going to be fitted out as an O'Briens, I'd expect a gang of shopfitters to do the refit in a few days. Instead, the shutters were down today and nothing is happening :confused:

    If the 'green' you're talking about is the colour of the shutters, they've been that colour for a few years.


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    #3705
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    coylemj wrote: »
    If it (the old Get Fresh shop on Deansgrange Road) was going to be fitted out as an O'Briens, I'd expect a gang of shopfitters to do the refit in a few days. Instead, the shutters were down today and nothing is happening :confused:

    If the 'green' you're talking about is the colour of the shutters, they've been that colour for a few years.

    The internals fittings are green, and have (from my experience) a similar tone/design to the rest of their shops


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    #3706
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    coylemj wrote: »

    Per L1011's response, the DHL service sounds like it requires you to contact the original shipper to ask them to divert the delivery to a DHL collection point but not every shipper allows this and in a lot of cases, you have no advance notice of who is involved so you can't phone or e-mail anyone to divert the delivery.

    Once your mobile number is on it, DHL text and offer the divert. But that is still reliant on the seller so much the same result


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    #3707
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    L1011 wrote: »
    Once your mobile number is on it, DHL text and offer the divert. But that is still reliant on the seller so much the same result

    I see DPD now offer this service as well, pickup points all over the place in local shops.


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    #3708
    frash
    Registered Users Posts: 2,564 ✭✭✭frash


    Roast Office, a coffee shop, has opened where the newsagent used to be in Deansgrange with the Post Office (see what they did there?)


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    #3709
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    frash wrote: »
    Roast Office, a coffee shop, has opened where the newsagent used to be in Deansgrange with the Post Office (see what they did there?)

    I could see them working on it for the last couple of weeks. A lot of independent newsagents have closed down in the last couple of years like the one on the ground floor in Blackrock SC. No where to top up a leap card now in Deansgrange though unless Supervalu have started it.


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    #3710
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    frash wrote: »
    Roast Office, a coffee shop, has opened where the newsagent used to be in Deansgrange with the Post Office (see what they did there?)

    Looked in the window today. The newsagent/sweetshop has been compressed to the left side with the post office still in the far left corner and the right-hand side is now a coffee shop.

    But I'd question the viability of the coffee shop as there is an Insomnia just around the corner at the entrance to the Supervalu car park, it has lots of comfortable seating and has seats and tables outside for smokers.


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    #3711
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    The fruit and veg shop isn't an obriens it's a pharmacy


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    #3712
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    The fruit and veg shop isn't an obriens it's a pharmacy

    Are we still talking about the old Get Fresh premises? Weird place to open a pharmacy, esp. when you consider that the Grange Pharmacy has a much larger premises up at the crossroads.


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    #3713
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    coylemj wrote: »
    Are we still talking about the old Get Fresh premises? Weird place to open a pharmacy, esp. when you consider that the Grange Pharmacy has a much larger premises up at the crossroads.

    Yep and agree. Looks like it'll be a pretty small pharmacy tbh


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    #3714
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,326 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    Yep and agree. Looks like it'll be a pretty small pharmacy tbh

    +1 signage installed today and the shelves looked well stocked at 2 p.m. when I passed in the car though the shutters were down at 4 p.m. so probably opening early next week.

    A branch of this chain .... https://www.purepharmacy.ie/


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    #3715
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    I remember a number of years ago they opened another pharmacy in Foxrock Village across the road from the one that's already there. It lasted about six months this kind of strikes me as similar.


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    #3716
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    It lasted about six months this kind of strikes me as similar.

    this new crowd are a discount pharmacy. I can see posts from 2 years ago.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057674340

    jmbkay wrote: »
    I was paying nearly 50 euro a month for blood pressure tablets and statins for high cholesterol, I am now paying 15 euro in Pure Pharmacy, Collins Avenue, near Donnycarney church. They also have other branches.

    they have 24 paracetomol for 90cent, which is enough to drag people down.

    I reckon the trick is purposely to open next to an existing one to steal their customers.

    I have no prescriptions, but regular pricey enough OTC items and wonder if they would be cheaper at all.


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    #3717
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    I did notice Grange pharmacy had a sign in the window this week advertising their really low prices for generics.. price war incoming!


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    #3718
    Viscount Aggro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,153 ✭✭✭Viscount Aggro


    Dundrum town centre - Beefstreet, steak place looks closed to me... or is that overdone?


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    #3719
    Exclamation Marc
    Registered Users Posts: 11,289 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Viscount Aggro wrote: »
    Dundrum town centre - Beefstreet, steak place looks closed to me... or is that overdone?

    Do you mean Beeftro?

    If so, could be linked to the Beeftro restaurant on Balfe Street which has closed down so maybe the chain has gone under completely.


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    #3720
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,363 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Exclamation Marc wrote: »
    Do you mean Beeftro?

    If so, could be linked to the Beeftro restaurant on Balfe Street which has closed down so maybe the chain has gone under completely.
    They are, or certainly were linked. Dundrum was 'Beeftro' when it opened, and then changed to Beefstreet maybe a year or so ago. Their deals on Pigsback were great value.


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    #3721
    Exclamation Marc
    Registered Users Posts: 11,289 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    They are, or certainly were linked. Dundrum was 'Beeftro' when it opened, and then changed to Beefstreet maybe a year or so ago. Their deals on Pigsback were great value.

    Wow. Shows how long ago I was there!! Ha :)


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