Iceland coming to the Cork Road

south

planning notice in the window down there today beside buylo. change of use of unit 2(the empty one) from warehouse to discount retail store.

ziedth

I still can't believe they picked that unit. Parking is going to be a nightmare when it opens first.

eimearos

Iceland are coming. They are hoping to open in early June. Can't wait

ziedth

That's not what i heard. rumor has it they were delayed for 18 months sometime before the end of last year. be great if they did open soon.

eimearos

ziedth wrote: »

That's not what i heard. rumor has it they were delayed for 18 months sometime before the end of last year. be great if they did open soon.

It's true, you will just have to wait and see. They have already been in fitting lifts and the keys were handed over Monday just gone

Stove Fan

The one thing you are all forgetting is it will be run as a franchise with prices controlled by Iceland Ireland and not Iceland UK.

Just like tesco Ireland does not compare price wise to tesco UK.

They will just compare to the rest. Just like garveys and tesco with prices compared to each other.

We'll see. Personally Iceland is ****e in the UK.

Noelly

Stove Fan wrote: »

The one thing you are all forgetting is it will be run as a franchise with prices controlled by Iceland Ireland and not Iceland UK.

Just like tesco Ireland does not compare price wise to tesco UK.

They will just compare to the rest. Just like garveys and tesco with prices compared to each other.

We'll see. Personally Iceland is ****e in the UK.

Iceland in Clonmel has regular pricing in terms of exchange, ie: items priced at £1 are sold at €1.50 which is fair considering the extra transport costs and all!

ziedth

I still don't think they are picking a good unit. I know they have teams of guys who know better then me who examine these kind of things but i just can't see it working as well as it could have.

I know Dealz are going into Lisduggan so that's not an option now but that is a far better location IMHO.

spankmemunkey

Your talking about frozen vegetables, theres nothing wrong with frozen vegetables in fact i would say frozen is better than fresh, fresh from supermarkets anyway, frozen veg is picked and frozen within one hour, where as your "Fresh Veg" in the shop has probably been half way round the world in a ship or on a truck then time sepnt on the shelf.

Im talking about the Sheppards pie's the lasagne the ready made meals, frozen sausages. People think the cheaper the food the better, the cheaper the food the more crap thats in it, the less quality in it. just read the back of the packs,

spankmemunkey

ziedth wrote: »

I still don't think they are picking a good unit. I know they have teams of guys who know better then me who examine these kind of things but i just can't see it working as well as it could have.

I know Dealz are going into Lisduggan so that's not an option now but that is a far better location IMHO.

I agree, i know for a fact that i wont go there now, parking isnt really ample, dont know what they were thinking,

fuzzy dunlop

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

I seen that episode of south park!

Penn and Teller did a rebuttal documentary about Walmart that could easily be transferred to Waterford.Worth a watch.It was called Wallmart Hate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AloHq0ih4mw

Nypd

Isn't there a lot of parking to the rear of that unit ?

Adyx

Do we really need another supermarket though? Even one that's a little more "specialised" than the others. Obviously the jobs being created is great but there's a Superquinn, Aldi, Lidl, BuyLo right there, 2 Tescos not that far, there's that party frozen food place nearby too. Hell if you're really stuck there's a Centra and a Spar too. And all that's before you drive from that general area.

Obviously it means more choice but I can't see there being enough business to take anything from the other shops.

sonyvision

ziedth wrote: »

I still don't think they are picking a good unit. I know they have teams of guys who know better then me who examine these kind of things but i just can't see it working as well as it could have.

I know Dealz are going into Lisduggan so that's not an option now but that is a far better location IMHO.

Dealz are no longer going into lisduggan, an objection was put it, when up through the chain and objection was held fair, dealz pulled out all units are up for sale in tescos lisduggan

ziedth

sonyvision wrote: »

Dealz are no longer going into lisduggan, an objection was put it, when up through the chain and objection was held fair, dealz pulled out all units are up for sale in tescos lisduggan

Trust me, they are going in there. I still don't know why they put those signs up.

sonyvision

Mind me asking how do you know they are still going in ?

ziedth

sonyvision wrote: »

Mind me asking how do you know they are still going in ?

Let's just say i'm on the front line, I cant go into full details but i can guarentee you they are going to be in Lisduggan within the coming weeks.

sonyvision

Well in fairness I hope they do, few jobs for people would be nice in fairness, and that shopping centre needs a massive boast......

Are you working there ya ?
Oh and them objections were put in when they knew dealz were about to move in, bad form by the competition infairness

ziedth

I'm involved alright (I know being so cryptic is annoying but its a necessary evil).

I guess that's just business with the objections. I mentioned in the general chat thread but all those empty units along that side of Lisduggan are going to be in use by the summer which is great.

Great to see any few jobs created in the city.

abcdef123456

ziedth wrote: »

I'm involved alright (I know being so cryptic is annoying but its a necessary evil).

I guess that's just business with the objections. I mentioned in the general chat thread but all those empty units along that side of Lisduggan are going to be in use by the summer which is great.

Great to see any few jobs created in the city.

Just out in Lisduggan now and there are to let signs all over the place dealz was supposed to be going in.

Are they new signs?

ziedth

abcdef123456 wrote: »

Just out in Lisduggan now and there are to let signs all over the place dealz was supposed to be going in.

Are they new signs?

Ya they went up a couple of weeks ago. im not sure what the situation is with them to be honest.

jo06555

Lisduggan shopping centre???