What shops would you like to see in carlow.

SV · 16-11-2008 5:10pm

Hayley Skinny Rooster wrote: »

Compared to the ****e you get in most other coffee shops? Bewleys? Heated up MUCK!!! Starbucks produce good quality coffee and a great athmosphere... Oh and your ass doesn't hurt when you get up off their seats

You think you are going to walk into a place which offers you an amazing service and pay the same as you would anywhere else? Pffft, you are sooo wrong. By comparison, bewleys has rediculous prices.

Less of the grammar police, christ... not everyone is as perfect as ye two, God help us all if they were.

Great atmosphere? Amazing service?

Are you a bloody rep for starbucks or something?

It's a load of ****e. Nothing more to it.
oh and the people who serve you are always arseholes(if they're in Dublin, they're usually from D4 or think they are, if the rest of the country..they think they're from D4 too)

Queen-Mise · 17-11-2008 1:44pm

Hayley Skinny Rooster wrote: »

Less of the grammar police, christ... not everyone is as perfect as ye two, God help us all if they were.

who is he talking about....

- sorry just copped it

I think starbucks is pretentious, tbh.

Nerin · 17-11-2008 1:46pm

queen-mise wrote: »

who is he talking about....

I think starbucks is pretentious, tbh.

Shay and kate i think.

Theres a very funny flash animation about starbucks,I'll see if i can find it

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 17-11-2008 4:01pm

ClioV6 wrote: »

Great atmosphere? Amazing service?

Are you a bloody rep for starbucks or something?

It's a load of ****e. Nothing more to it.
oh and the people who serve you are always arseholes(if they're in Dublin, they're usually from D4 or think they are, if the rest of the country..they think they're from D4 too)

No I am not a bloody rep for anywhere... I am entitled to my opinion, am I not? Explane how their employees are "arseholes", oh is it because that D4 accent annoys you?

I am speaking from experience, I have been to their coffee shops quite a lot and never found anything wrong with their service, and yes, their is an athmosphere to the place.

What other coffee shops are there? How would you rate them?

getz · 17-11-2008 4:23pm

in the town i live in we had no book shops -- we had a library but last week it burnt down--but all was not lost they saved one book --and not all the pages had been coloured in

robo · 17-11-2008 4:28pm

Not everyone has to buy from Starbucks...if you don't like it, don't go near the place. But it would be nice for those who like Starbucks to have it in the town?
I think that Carlow is big enough to have a few more coffee shops...a big Borders with a starbucks would be nice.

patrickc · 17-11-2008 5:00pm

Hayley Skinny Rooster wrote: »

No I am not a bloody rep for anywhere... I am entitled to my opinion, am I not? Explane how their employees are "arseholes", oh is it because that D4 accent annoys you?

I am speaking from experience, I have been to their coffee shops quite a lot and never found anything wrong with their service, and yes, their is an athmosphere to the place.

What other coffee shops are there? How would you rate them?

dibn ri and brooks coffee isn't bad IMO

stick-dan · 17-11-2008 5:04pm

Right lads, tone it down a bit, attack the post not the poster and everyone is entitled to their opinions...

KateF · 17-11-2008 5:40pm

patrickc wrote: »

dibn ri and brooks coffee isn't bad IMO

Brooks is good, I like it, its still expensive though so....I'm sticking with Starbucks

We have a Starbucks in our Uni's canteen and its far from posh or pretencious, the people working there are ordinary Joe Soaps. The decor is just the bare minimum of whats needed, not even any seats in there, and still theres a Q out the door most mornings, even though you could get coffee out of the machine for a £1. So people do pay extra for a decent coffee and obviously think its worth it if they keep coming back....
I'd love it if Carlow got a Starbucks....but I'm never ther so it doesn't bother me all that much

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 17-11-2008 5:57pm

We had one in I.T. Carlow Kate, I kept to the mocha :P Yum.

I do like the food in brooks, but I have never drank their coffee. You know when you like something from a specific shop, you tend to stick with it? I might try a coffee in brooks some day. I know The Temple (aka Tao) Do some really really nice hot chocolates, but I am not sure if they are machine dispenced or not.

robo · 17-11-2008 7:01pm

I do love Brooks also and it is the usual place that I go to for food when shopping in Carlow. However, I never go to Starbucks for food, only a Frapuccino!
I think that other coffee shops would survive with Starbucks there also.

Queen-Mise · 17-11-2008 11:18pm

I had the most disgusting coffee today in costa - not good.

brooks can be good. busier the place the better really for stuff

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 17-11-2008 11:23pm

or cheaper the produce

CountryGirl1 · 22-11-2008 10:30am

BOOTS!!!!
It's way overdue.Plus a decent Easons!:)

fitzyshea · 22-11-2008 1:58pm

Boots please! Whats wrong with Costa? Better coffee than Starbucks. Also WHERE IS OUR NEW CINEMA??????????

KateF · 22-11-2008 2:01pm

fitzyshea wrote: »

Boots please! Whats wrong with Costa? Better coffee than Starbucks. Also WHERE IS OUR NEW CINEMA??????????

I think two Sam Mcauley's do the job!
Costa is ok, Starbucks waaay better though, def agree with you about the cinema!! Think everyone does

fitzyshea · 22-11-2008 2:05pm

KateF wrote: »

I think two Sam Mcauley's do the job!
Costa is ok, Starbucks waaay better though, def agree with you about the cinema!! Think everyone does

Yeh but Boots have a better selection.

foggy_lad · 22-11-2008 3:11pm

i would love to see all the shops returning to the town centre instead of locating a half hours walk out in the country! and fairgreen should be turned back into a cattle mart

byhookorbycrook · 22-11-2008 4:10pm

Fairgreen is still a cattlemart!!!

CountryGirl1 · 22-11-2008 4:36pm

When will the new shopping centre Shamrock(or whatever it's called) be open?

SV · 22-11-2008 4:40pm

CountryGirl1 wrote: »

When will the new shopping centre Shamrock(or whatever it's called) be open?

Not really a shopping centre but..soon enough, just fitting out the interiors now.

Queen-Mise · 23-11-2008 7:10pm

i would like a decent sweet shop, with a huge collection of pick 'n mix

laurashambles · 24-11-2008 12:57am

queen-mise wrote: »

i would like a decent sweet shop, with a huge collection of pick 'n mix

I second this!

Also, I completely agree with everyone about the cinema/bookshop fiasco. It's beyond a joke. I just don't bother with the (cin)eplex (will they ever fix that sign?) or byrnes anymore. I just wait for the DVD and get all my books on amazon.

patrickc · 31-01-2009 4:56pm

i see bank of ireland is opening at shamrock plaza, is it relocating or opening another branch does anyone know?

aynon · 31-01-2009 5:01pm

think its a fully relocating, but going to be a gradual change, like over a month to let ppl get use to it. apparently ulster bank are going in there too? might be interesting neighbours

aynon · 31-01-2009 5:01pm

queen-mise wrote: »

i would like a decent sweet shop, with a huge collection of pick 'n mix

agrred!!

SpitfireIV · 01-02-2009 10:02pm

I'll tell you what we need, not a shop as such, and perhaps related to the cinema thread, but we need somewhere that'll show fecking decent movies, not all this regurgitated Hollywood garbage! I want to go to cinema more and enjoy movies in this format but how can i go when all thats on offer is some teenage flick (with all the same actors), some comedy about someone getting married, or divorced, another animation based on another fecking animal or a bloody part 4 or 5 of some sequence of movies when part 1 was rubbish anyway.

Somewhere that'll show European/foreign language movies or at least some sort of alternative, god damn we need it!! Too much to ask for? What sort of cinema is this new one we're supposed to be getting? Do you think it'd show such movies?

Rant over :pac:

Morf · 02-02-2009 1:21am

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

I'll tell you what we need, not a shop as such, and perhaps related to the cinema thread, but we need somewhere that'll show fecking decent movies, not all this regurgitated Hollywood garbage! I want to go to cinema more and enjoy movies in this format but how can i go when all thats on offer is some teenage flick (with all the same actors), some comedy about someone getting married, or divorced, another animation based on another fecking animal or a bloody part 4 or 5 of some sequence of movies when part 1 was rubbish anyway.

Somewhere that'll show European/foreign language movies or at least some sort of alternative, god damn we need it!! Too much to ask for? What sort of cinema is this new one we're supposed to be getting? Do you think it'd show such movies?

Rant over :pac:

It'd be great. I saw Nightwatch in the much derided cinema. I was on my own i think. A special monday night showing. Shows how much hunger there is for non-hollywood films in carlow i suppose.

The new one will probably be much the same. You have the IFI in dublin for films like that, that's the most likely place you'll see them i'm afraid.

aynon · 02-02-2009 1:28am

Morf wrote: »

It'd be great. I saw Nightwatch in the much derided cinema. I was on my own i think. A special monday night showing. Shows how much hunger there is for non-hollywood films in carlow i suppose.

The new one will probably be much the same. You have the IFI in dublin for films like that, that's the most likely place you'll see them i'm afraid.

interesting buissness prop, any one interested in openin one?

SpitfireIV · 02-02-2009 2:11am

aynon wrote: »

interesting buissness prop, any one interested in openin one?

How would one go about establishing such an enterprise?

aynon · 02-02-2009 2:20am

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

How would one go about establishing such an enterprise?

we need some scaffolding, 3 eastern workers, and the a-team

SpitfireIV · 02-02-2009 2:23am

aynon wrote: »

we need some scaffolding, 3 eastern workers, and the a-team

Scaffolding and the A-team arent a problem, finding 3 eastern workers now is! :pac:

aynon · 02-02-2009 9:30am

i will settle for turks.

shenanigans1982 · 02-02-2009 4:21pm

Yeah I think that for those kinda movies you are going to have to travel to the IFI or The lighthouse.

Definitely going to be in the minority with this but I would like to see a comic shop...... or decent toy shop for all the kids stuck inside us.:pac:

stick-dan · 02-02-2009 7:16pm

tkmaxx love that shop. forgot to add that.

aynon · 02-02-2009 8:13pm

would love a comix store. tkmaxx is opening soon their premission is this (-) close to being added

darc · 03-02-2009 2:47pm

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

Yeah I think that for those kinda movies you are going to have to travel to the IFI or The lighthouse.

Definitely going to be in the minority with this but I would like to see a comic shop...... or decent toy shop for all the kids stuck inside us.:pac:

was talking to one of the staff in Special Days and they were saying that there's a lot of retro kids stuff coming in instead of the food & wine which thay are clearing out. (yummy prices!)

She was talking about some huge marble stand that will be full of different marbles and a lot of old style games rather than the boring board games you get everywhere.

Also, heard that byrnes will be closing the upper levels of their tullow st store (does anybody go up there anyway??)

aynon · 03-02-2009 3:00pm

darc wrote: »

was talking to one of the staff in Special Days and they were saying that there's a lot of retro kids stuff coming in instead of the food & wine which thay are clearing out. (yummy prices!)

She was talking about some huge marble stand that will be full of different marbles and a lot of old style games rather than the boring board games you get everywhere.

Also, heard that byrnes will be closing the upper levels of their tullow st store (does anybody go up there anyway??)

i do from time to time, the puzzles are up there

What shops would you like to see in carlow.

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