Shopping/Bargain Alerts In Sligo Town/County (Merged)

AlmightyCushion

magnumlady wrote:

Are you not going off topic muffler

Nice knowing you magnum lady.

nicolaonfire

il gatto wrote:

Have they advertised for staff? If not it might be slower than we hoped for.

I have only seen job ad's for Elverys, Exit, The Bag Shop and The jeans Shop so far.

Oh and when I was in Galway I saw a sign on the Claires Accesories Window saying something like they need a manager for their new Sligo store.

sligotrue

yeah,

i ould say it will be open by 25th october definitely so the businesses can make money up to xmas.

delay has only been so that more shops can come on board

if it opened in september it would prob have been elverys and a couple of other shops making the huge publicity about it a bi of a joke.

this way there will be a lot more shops and id say if it wasnt so close to x=mas theyd leave it longer but now they hav e to open for business reasons.

most shops make the majority of their annual turnover in those 2 mths

Gillie

sligotrue wrote:

delay has only been so that more shops can come on board

Nah the building wasn't near ready anyway!

gustavo

Call me silly but shouldnt you have tenants alrready confirmed as being in situ before announcing an opening date?

Gillie

gustavo wrote:

Call me silly but shouldnt you have tenants alrready confirmed as being in situ before announcing an opening date?

Technically yes but generally they just get a couple of Anchor Tenants and the rest should follow.

For the quayside it was TK Maxx & Next.

(BTW. Your not Silly!)

vesp

I think the new shopping centre will be great - just what Sligo needs. However, one problem I see will be parking if it is to be really successful. Pity much of this new shopping centre was built on a car park. Instead of solving / relieving Sligos parking problems it will not help it - think of where all the customers and staff and residents of the apartments above - where do they park ? For potential visitors arriving in to Sligo off the inner relief road - where next ? Do they pay the expensive rates in the Wine st car park, if they can find a space there at all ? Not condusive to browsing in the new shops. People should set up a petition to Sligo Corporation - they should provide better parking facilities.

Gillie

[sarcasm]Well the county manager thinks there is no parking issue in Sligo so we must be all wrong and mad![/sarcasm]

il gatto

Then we should all start parking over at the council offices at Riverside and see if he thinks there's a problem. Typical civil servant. Has free parking laid on and can't see what the problem is.
Apparently 60% of parking in Dublin 1&2 are reserved for civil servants who park for free. And parking in Cork for civil servants (300 odd spaces) costs the tax payer €250,000 a year.

TequilaMockingBird

I heard a rumour today that Virgin have pulled out of Johnstons Court. I've Googled it but can't find anything. Apparently, someone who had been hired by Virgin received a letter informing him they were no longer opening a Sligo store.
Havn't a clue whether its true or not, but if it is, it would be a big blow the Centre.

magnumlady

sueme wrote:

I heard a rumour today that Virgin have pulled out of Johnstons Court. I've Googled it but can't find anything. Apparently, someone who had been hired by Virgin received a letter informing him they were no longer opening a Sligo store.
Havn't a clue whether its true or not, but if it is, it would be a big blow the Centre.

Oh no, I really hope thats not true, the signs are up for it.

Culchie

It will definitely open on 25th October, I was in it last week on a job, some spot.

There'll be about 5 units not occupied by the time it opens.

nicolaonfire

In the Sligo post today there was an ad for it's grand opening, it said "October 25th at 11am".
Like they have an exact time now, it makes me feel like it is actually gonna happen now. Plus what culchie said!

Gillie

sueme wrote:

I heard a rumour today that Virgin have pulled out of Johnstons Court. I've Googled it but can't find anything. Apparently, someone who had been hired by Virgin received a letter informing him they were no longer opening a Sligo store.
Havn't a clue whether its true or not, but if it is, it would be a big blow the Centre.

Has this been verified?

sligotrue

yes it is true that virgin have pulled out

my uncle works in johnston and told me.

he doesnt know the reason though

Gillie

F*ck it!

This is a disaster!
I wonder would HMV come in?

TequilaMockingBird

Virgin signs are still up this morning.

No doubt, it will be because of some ridiculous planning regulation...

I would imagine the other stores are not best pleased with the anchor store pulling out. (If its true that Virgin have pulled out)

Gillie

sligotrue wrote:

yes it is true that virgin have pulled out

my uncle works in johnston and told me.

he doesnt know the reason though

Well his name is SligoTRUE!;)

muffler

sueme wrote:

I would imagine the other stores are not best pleased with the anchor store pulling out.

Would Virgin be the anchor tenant in this type of development? I would have thought that one of the big supermarket chains would fill that position.

AlmightyCushion

muffler wrote:

Would Virgin be the anchor tenant in this type of development? I would have thought that one of the big supermarket chains would fill that position.

It's not a very big development so yes they would.

Gillie

muffler wrote:

Would Virgin be the anchor tenant in this type of development? I would have thought that one of the big supermarket chains would fill that position.

Next and TK Maxx are the anchor stores in the Quayside.

There's not a snowball's chance in Hell that Tesco would "allow" another supermarket in such close proximity especially since they were denied planning for a superstore at carraroe!

sligotrue

another ridiculous decision

Gillie

sligotrue wrote:

another ridiculous decision

The tesco one?

daveboy01

yes it is true that virgin have pulled out

my uncle works in johnston and told me.

he doesnt know the reason though

It could be just that Virgin are changing their name to Zavvi (seems strange that they've erected Virgin signs). This article was in the Irish Times a couple of weeks ago:

The Virgin Megastore brand is the latest marquee name set to vanish from the streets in what has been an eventful year for the music retail sector.

This week’s management buy-out means that Virgin’s 125 outlets across Ireland and Britain will be rebranded as Zavvi stores in the coming months, with four new stores also set to open in Ireland.

The new owners, led by current Virgin Megastore boss Simon Douglas, are not planning to rock the boat too much and will continue to sell entertainment products of every stripe. Douglas says he sees Zavvi as “an independent entertainment specialist that puts customers, product, service and personality at the top of the agenda.”

Many other stores had similar high hopes, but changes in music consumption have scuppered any such ambitions. The disappearance of the Tower Records chain in the United States and the Fopp and Music Zone shops in Britain in the past 12 months, as well as previously reported losses at HMV and Golden Discs, are all indications of challenging times for those who sell music for a living.

Here at home, the latest shop to close its doors is the hugely-respected Mulligan outlet in Galway. It joins Black Spot (Limerick), Synthetic (Cork), Carbon (Dublin) and Selectah (Dublin) on the growing list of Irish casualties, with other shops downsizing, cutting the size of their music catalogue and diversifying into DVDs and games in order to survive.

Branson will no doubt harbour some personal regrets at seeing his Virgin brand disappear from the high street. However, he and his advisers are in no doubt that they’re getting out of the entertainment retail sector in the nick of time, with even Branson’s reported £100 million investment in the stores over the past few years failing to stop the rot.

The stores contributed only 5 per cent of the Virgin group’s turnover in 2006 and incurred a pre-tax loss of £82.2 million in the year to March 2006.

As with his disposal of the V2 label, Branson knows that business is no place for sentiment and was happy to do a deal with management.

For the sake of Zavvi’s 2,500 employees, you really hope that Douglas and his team know what they’re doing in what are increasingly difficult retail conditions.

donegalman1

Virgin in whatever guise or brand name are coming.

sligotrue

So what do you have to do to post a new thread on the northwest page apart from talk about the new shopping mall

muffler

sligotrue wrote:

So what do you have to do to post a new thread on the northwest page apart from talk about the new shopping mall

Im lost - can you elaborate on your post?

Gillie

sligotrue wrote:

So what do you have to do to post a new thread on the northwest page apart from talk about the new shopping mall

Start a thread about something relevant to Sligo!:cool:

sligotrue

i did but it was forbidden and it didnt contain any false advertising or bad language

Gillie

sligotrue wrote:

i did but it was forbidden and it didnt contain any false advertising or bad language

I refer you to the mods!:)