some welcomed additions to wexford shops!

RadioRetro

Good discussion here and I'm with vicwatson and Mr.Binary on this one. I won't use your delivery service because I live close by so prefer to walk, thus losing a couple of calories before replacing them. However, your ID security protocol seems sound enough to me and I wish you all the best with your negotiation/fight. Expanding your offering at this time of economic turmoil is to be applauded.

I just wish this panic over underage drinking could settle down into a sober, rational nationwide debate, then you might have an easier time of it.

Oh, and the kids looking for booze congregate at the street end of Oyster Lane so as not to arouse suspicion (doesn't work) so I think you're safe enough re. being bothered by underagers. If you need someone to testify about them asking passers by to go into the Carry Out for them, I'm your man, though they don't bother me any more as they know me and I've grown tired of their plaintive cries. [EDIT] By that I mean I don't bother even saying 'no' any more.

WexfordWarrior

stuff like this needs to happen...we are all adults and can make decisions for ourselves. never mind those scare mongering.

go for it and do it...my girlfriend was delighted when i told her and she thinks it should already be happening...we will support it... nothing better than sitting at home getting a chinese and having someone bring you some booze too while you get the missus to run downstairs in her pj's to collect it.

i hope we can get rid of some if not all of our local councellers too at some stage because as this post just proves, there is a serious objection to vision in this town. the sooner we get some younger forward thinking heads involved the better.

we had mr canty come down here and kick up stink about our shopping centre in the middle of town and object to everything that would of improved this town...where is he now ???

we got left with a rotten mess that is supervalue, a ramshackle carpark in the centre of town and ugly apartments on view. the alternative was somthing like the roofless courtyard shopping centre similar to whats in the centre of kilkenny... only better.

i know im always ranting about this but i was in arklow today...and the shopping centre up there is probably too big for there but they have tkmaxx, next, river island etc etc there...

now i know wexford can do without the large scale shopping centre but we need some more named and recognisable shops down here now. why havnt the authorities in power done anything to get them here?

friends of mine visited from munster and his girlfriend commented that there was hardly any shopping in wexford.. i know there is alot of individual boutiques and independant stores etc and thats what adds to the town...but we need a better mix now or face being left behind even further than we already are.

people are going to arklow to shop from wexford for gods sake!

I hope the lotus house have success in this venture and it works and here's to alot more of this type of thinking and these types of ideas coming to fruition... this town cannot move forward without it.

vicwatson

we had mr canty come down here and kick up stink about our shopping centre in the middle of town and object to everything that would of improved this town...where is he now ??? 

Last I heard he was a councillor in Tralee. Few years after he was paid off in Wexford for those looking for planning.

Actually it was Killarney - here ya go

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ahern-protester-to-run-for-council-seat-1728552.html

Corvo

Best of luck with the venture.

Can you also install some form of weapon to rid Oyster Lane of the youngsters?

P.S. Love the food there and I would probably buy the drink (sometimes!) should it be delivered. Can't beat a beer with the Chinese!!

RadioRetro

vicwatson wrote: »

Last I heard he was a councillor in Tralee. Few years after he was paid off in Wexford for those looking for planning.

Actually it was Killarney - here ya go

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ahern-protester-to-run-for-council-seat-1728552.html

Luckily for the people of that tourist-tat town, he failed to get elected, it seems.

Judgement Day

Nobody go to the pub anymore in Wexford? It's hard to believe that people are so disorganised that they can't buy beer in the supermarket - at knock-down prices - and are happy to pay extra to have it delivered. I thought there was no money in the country!

vicwatson

RadioRetro wrote: »

Luckily for the people of that tourist-tat town, he failed to get elected, it seems.

That article I posted is from 2009. He might have been elected and kicked out in the last 3 years !!

movingsucks

Judgement Day wrote: »

Nobody go to the pub anymore in Wexford? It's hard to believe that people are so disorganised that they can't buy beer in the supermarket - at knock-down prices - and are happy to pay extra to have it delivered. I thought there was no money in the country!

Its no different from getting soft drinks delivered with your meal

vicwatson

movingsucks wrote: »

Its no different from getting soft drinks delivered with your meal

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit:)

vicwatson

Saw a new shop in Wexford at weekend, a coffee and pastry shop, beside (old) Furlongs in the Bull Ring. Called Lilly's

Also new Tea/Spice shop two doors down from it towards the BOI

vicwatson

@ 000111000

How has your venture progressed or has it?

Jengagirl

Anyone know anything more about the rumours that TK Max are to open down on the quay? Great news if true.

Jengagirl

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

PLANS TO open a TK Maxx department store in Wexford town next year are said to be very advanced, The Echo has learnt.
The discount designer label department store is said to have had an interest in opening in a prominent Wexford town location for some time and it is believed that the Staffords building on Paul Quay is the most likely location for the store.
At a time when the town is experiencing a retail resurgence, with fewer vacant shops on the main street than at any time in the past four years, news of the potential arrival of an international store like TK Maxx can only be seen as great news for the town.
The UK based retail giant’s nearest stores are in Arklow and Waterford City and it is believed their arrival here would provide a great boost to many businesses in Wexford, as well as much needed employment in the town.

Niles

Jengagirl wrote: »

The UK based retail giant’s nearest stores are in Arklow and Waterford City and it is believed their arrival here would provide a great boost to many businesses in Wexford, as well as much needed employment in the town.

Not arguing on the employment point but not sure how why they think it'll be a boost to other businesses in the area...

Zhane

Niles wrote: »

Not arguing on the employment point but not sure how why they think it'll be a boost to other businesses in the area...

There is absolutely no pull to south Main Street. If Tkmax is going to stonebridge, then it will drive people to the area. Just like Tesco did.

Jengagirl

Meadows & Byrne to open beside McDonalds....great news for shoppers. Good to see a few big name stores opening in Wexford.

Judgement Day

Jengagirl wrote: »

Meadows & Byrne to open beside McDonalds....great news for shoppers. Good to see a few big name stores opening in Wexford.

Hardly in Wexford Town though is it?

Zhane

Judgement Day wrote: »

Hardly in Wexford Town though is it?

Close enough

vicwatson

Jengagirl wrote: »

Meadows & Byrne to open beside McDonalds....great news for shoppers. Good to see a few big name stores opening in Wexford.

Are these guys not a bit like Home Store and More? They must see something in the retail market the rest of us don't. Maybe it's the cheaper rents?

Good story though.

McLoughlin

Be nice to see a store opening in Wexford that deals with music and blu rays that kinda thing there is a real market from that in Wexford town.

Judgement Day

McLoughlin wrote: »

Be nice to see a store opening in Wexford that deals with music and blu rays that kinda thing there is a real market from that in Wexford town.

Swimming against the tide with that idea I think - did you not hear about HMV?

Jengagirl

vicwatson wrote: »

Are these guys not a bit like Home Store and More? They must see something in the retail market the rest of us don't. Maybe it's the cheaper rents?

Good story though.

They're more upmarket than Home Store & More and a bit more expensive.
I think they'll do well there - v good location. They will get alot of business from holiday makers going to/from Rosslare during the spring/summer/autumn. The other units in that block should fill up fast now too.

McLoughlin

Judgement Day wrote: »

Swimming against the tide with that idea I think - did you not hear about HMV?

I'm talking about an Independent music store. Independent music stores are growing in Ireland its the music stores that cater towards casual music fans that are in trouble. I spend allot of money online buying direct from Independent stores in Dublin, Cork and Galway be nice if one opened up down in the south east even a small place like Wingnut in Waterford.

bigron2109

McLoughlin wrote: »

I'm talking about an Independent music store. Independent music stores are growing in Ireland its the music stores that cater towards casual music fans that are in trouble. I spend allot of money online buying direct from Independent stores in Dublin, Cork and Galway be nice if one opened up down in the south east even a small place like Wingnut in Waterford.

BPM Operated in Wexford for years and it was a great Music Shop which had a very decent arrary of both music and DVD's but that had to close down.

McLoughlin

bigron2109 wrote: »

BPM Operated in Wexford for years and it was a great Music Shop which had a very decent arrary of both music and DVD's but that had to close down.

Which is why Wexford needs a music related shop

jd

People may say Wexford needs a good music shop but they don't spend enough there. Problem in Dublin too (cf. Comet etc)

Cantona's Collars

A music shop would be doomed to failure,it's too easy to access any music you want online these days.What's the point of buying a cd if you are simply going to rip it & stick the music on an mp3 player?

Wexford has access to 150Mb/s broadband now,an album can be downloaded almost instantly.

Even if people want physical copies,it's cheaper to buy them online.

Niles

zerks wrote: »

A music shop would be doomed to failure,it's too easy to access any music you want online these days.What's the point of buying a cd if you are simply going to rip it & stick the music on an mp3 player?

Wexford has access to 150Mb/s broadband now,an album can be downloaded almost instantly.

Even if people want physical copies,it's cheaper to buy them online.

Exactly. No doubt this was a factor in HMV's downfall. There is something appealing about a specialist music shop but the general market just isn't big enough these days.

heathersonline

Just back from town, and had to post. The old Chinese/Thai restaurant across from meylers is covered in Apache menus. Brought a tear to my eye. No dates mentioned or anything, anyone heard anything?

vicwatson

heathersonline wrote: »

Just back from town, and had to post. The old Chinese/Thai restaurant across from meylers is covered in Apache menus. Brought a tear to my eye. No dates mentioned or anything, anyone heard anything?

Heard nowt. It would be great news -give Dominos a run for it's money. Is that red square one still open?