Shops/Businesses opening/closing down

Cheshire Cat

Wompa1 wrote: »

Joyces have been in court a few times e.g. rancid meat and displaying one price but over charging at the till. Chancers.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/shop-fined-4000-for-keeping-rotten-meat-26439074.html

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/shops-forced-to-pay-the-price-for-overcharging-customers-26361901.html

I am not a fan of Joyce's by any means and tend to avoid them, but in the interest of fairness it has to be said that the two articles you are linking are 10 and 11 years old.
Also overcharging is quite a common problem. I find that SuperValu (Fr. Griffin) is an expert in it. You always have to check your receipt very carefully.

joeKel73

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

I find that SuperValu (Fr. Griffin) is an expert in it. You always have to check your receipt very carefully.

That used to be my local shop and they were notorious for having offers on the shelf and charging full price at the till. It happened with most shops. They'd close up the till and have a long slow check of the offer on the shelf if you pointed out the errors.

Bredabe

J o e wrote: »

That used to be my local shop and they were notorious for having offers on the shelf and charging full price at the till. It happened with most shops. They'd close up the till and have a long slow check of the offer on the shelf if you pointed out the errors.

Had pretty much the same experiences in Joyces in Knocknacarra, took an hour even tho, the ad on the paper and on shelf were in agreement and the till was didn't reflect this. An easy fix I would have thought.

_Whimsical_

I don't use Joyces myself so I don't know that it's true but there were a lot of complaints (more than 10) about out of date food on the facebook pages of local papers who posted about this takeover.

GalwayGrrrrrl

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I don't use Joyces myself so I don't know that it's true but there were a lot of complaints (more than 10) about out of date food on the facebook pages of local papers who posted about this takeover.

I've seen out of date food there and been overcharged at the till (I make a big deal of checking my receipt now). I think they stock a huge variety of foods which is good but they can't cope with date checking and price checking on such a vast range. I buy a basket of bits there occasionally but wouldn't do a full shop.

Bobeagleburger

I heard today Cruinniu in Ballybrit Business Park is closed. Notice on door thanking customers.

Shame as the food was good. It was very busy the past few months, so surprised it's shut.

D Trent

RoboKlopp wrote: »

I heard today Cruinniu in Ballybrit Business Park is closed. Notice on door thanking customers.

Shame as the food was good. It was very busy the past few months, so surprised it's shut.

It's now 'chríochnaithe'

etselbbuns

"Lidl also has some additional sites in Galway and Cork but will take time to get those sites through planning."
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/lidl-boss-targets-200-irish-shops-in-700m-expansion-35994450.html

Anyone know where in Galway the potential Lidl sites are?

Guffy

etselbbuns wrote: »

"Lidl also has some additional sites in Galway and Cork but will take time to get those sites through planning."
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/lidl-boss-targets-200-irish-shops-in-700m-expansion-35994450.html

Anyone know where in Galway the potential Lidl sites are?

Hardly still the knocknacarra (ballymoneen rd) site?

Cheshire Cat

Guffy wrote: »

Hardly still the knocknacarra (ballymoneen rd) site?

No, that site was sold not too long ago. AFAIK the plan is to build houses there.

manageit

Cafe in Leisureland closed for the last week or so. Sign on door announcing renovations, but nothing being done.

youngrun

http://www.galwayindependent.com/holdingpage/

ben.schlomo

youngrun wrote: »

http://www.galwayindependent.com/holdingpage/

Link does nowt, on mobile anyway.

CeilingFly

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Link does nowt, on mobile anyway.

Probably becasue they've just gone bust. - Meeting of creditors to appoint a liquidator due 18th Sept.

youngrun

CeilingFly wrote: »

Probably becasue they've just gone bust. - Meeting of creditors to appoint a liquidator due 18th Sept.

Yes, sad to see.

cfeeneyinterior

The Galway Independent is gone?

Cheshire Cat

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

The Galway Independent is gone?

Seems like it. Didn't get one this morning as usual and none in the Corner Shop when I bought the Irish Times.
Not surprised really, the GI had been going downhill for quite some time.

Hope all employees find another job soon.

pjohnson

Actually got bits of news from the Independent

youngrun

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

The Galway Independent is gone?

Liquidation unfortunately

bodhrandude

CeilingFly wrote: »

Probably becasue they've just gone bust. - Meeting of creditors to appoint a liquidator due 18th Sept.

Why? the paper was out last week I don't see why it would be any different this week.

westgolf

bodhrandude wrote: »

Why? the paper was out last week I don't see why it would be any different this week.

Once notice of meeting to appoint a liquidator became known no printing firm is going to risk not getting paid for their work particularly as its a freesheet which relies totally on advertising income.

?Cee?view

The only thing worth reading in the Galway Independent was Willy Henry's regular history piece. The quality of the rest of the paper was abysmal. Hopefully he'll get a regular column in one of the other local papers.

Sad for the staff. Hopefully they'll be treated property and get work elsewhere.

bobbyss

?Cee?view wrote:

The only thing worth reading in the Galway Independent was Willy Henry's regular history piece. The quality of the rest of the paper was abysmal. Hopefully he'll get a regular column in one of the other local papers.

Exactly and I hope he gets an outlet for his talent somewhere. Abysmal it was. At least it wasn't as impossible to hold as the Advertiser

smurf492

bobbyss wrote:

Exactly and I hope he gets an outlet for his talent somewhere. Abysmal it was. At least it wasn't as impossible to hold as the Advertiser

I'd say the only thing keeping the advertiser going is the auctioneers, Joyce's and dunnes...

TerrorFirmer

The Advertiser isn't bad for a free paper. There's some decent stuff in there and it's usually worth a flick through.

ben.schlomo

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

The Advertiser isn't bad for a free paper. There's some decent stuff in there and it's usually worth a flick through.

I find it great.........for wrapping my food waste in. Years ago when it actually printed news stories it had some value.

civis_liberalis

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

The Advertiser isn't bad for a free paper. There's some decent stuff in there and it's usually worth a flick through.

They had a bizarre 'article' last week that obviously wasn't written by a local that, in my opinion, should have been flagged as an advert, not journalistic content or whatever you'd call it.

Galway have won six and drawn one of their last ten games in the league and cup, a run of form that suggests their odds are worth monitoring at Unibet as the season reaches its climax.

The bold portion was a dodgy looking link purporting to be a Unibet site, which I have my doubts about.

And they used a pic of a player that is no longer at the club, but that would hardly be a first time for the press.

Arghus

Yeah, but for a free paper...

TerrorFirmer

civis_liberalis wrote: »

They had a bizarre 'article' last week that obviously wasn't written by a local that, in my opinion, should have been flagged as an advert, not journalistic content or whatever you'd call it.

Many stories in free newspapers aren't written in-house, they're press releases sent from companies/politicians that are published in the paper.

It's not just free newspapers that do this, but free ones tend to do it more.

Bobeagleburger

It's a free paper. No doubt if they put a charge on it, even with better stories, people would moan.