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Lidl in Portmarnock Village

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    #92
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,482 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Not true.

    I know lots of people in Portmarnock who would love a Lidl in their area, but this specific area is just a really bad idea.
    Anyone who knows the area will tell you the same.
    You clearly do not.

    And besides, Lidl isn't a 'lower class' super market.
    There is a Lidl in Stillorgan, Terenure, Rathmines, Ranelagh, Dundrum.... all 'lower class' areas??

    Correct, cannot understand how the traffic 'system' will be able to cope.

    Most people see the problem as that, and cannot understand the location.

    If you scoped the whole area of Portmarnock you could hardly fined a more likely location to provide traffic chaos.


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    #93
    adox
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    mayway wrote: »
    There is no "better end". It's all crass. The Portmarnock residents simply do not want a lower class supermarket in their area. It's sad but true.

    The guaranteed gridlock is just an added bonus.

    What nonsense.


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    #94
    subpar
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    Guarantee there will be queues out the door when it opens


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    #95
    Ernest
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    subpar wrote: »
    Guarantee there will be queues out the door when it opens

    Probably but doesn't that support the arguments made here that it would tend to cause traffic jams.


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    #96
    Brendan Bendar
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    Ernest wrote: »
    Probably but doesn't that support the arguments made here that it would tend to cause traffic jams.

    There are traffic jams before it ever existed.

    In your opinion will this extra attraction ease those traffic jams?


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    #97
    dak
    Registered Users Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭dak


    Crane being assembled on site this morning! Building is progressing fairly fast.
    Dak

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208239061643422&set=a.3929908655363.2134262.1509135265&type=3&theater


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    #98
    la ultima guagua
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭la ultima guagua


    Recently went through Portmarnock - store open !

    So how are you all finding it ?


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    #99
    Hollister11
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    Puts the baldoyle one to shame.

    It's big, open and spacious.


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    #100
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    Hollister11 wrote:
    It's big, open and spacious.

    It is also the only Lidl I've been in where, if you don't buy anything, you can walk straight out without having to squeeze past the people at the tills.

    Still a Lidl, though, so apart from interior design, same as all the others!


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    #101
    dak
    Registered Users Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭dak


    Very modern store with very friendly staff . Traffic problems not as bad as expected but we await the kids back to school to see the effect on the area !


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    #102
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
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    It's a level 7 store didn't you know! Only one in the country!


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    #103
    neris
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    Delilah Modern Rucksack wrote: »
    It's a level 7 store didn't you know! Only one in the country!

    then what level is the one is Baldoyle?


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    #104
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 82,587 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    I was in it last week, one very odd thing I noticed was they had music playing out over the speakers, all other LIDL's I have been in are whisper quiet with no music.

    The staff are a little too friendly and almost seeking a long chat from you instead of the normal "how are you/how's it going", I'm a get in and get out with my groceries as quick as I possibly can and if I want a chat I will call the Samaritans type of shopper. Perhaps they should have a special "I'd like a chat" till for people wanting to have a natter.

    Getting in and out of the store on to the main road is a pure pain in the hole, it should never have got planning at the location.
    neris wrote: »
    then what level is the one is Baldoyle?

    I'd say level 1 or so, it was one of the first group that opened in the country to be fair, they were pretty much selling things purely out of the boxes with little or no instore furniture across all stores initially.


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    #105
    Cloudio9
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    neris wrote: »
    then what level is the one is Baldoyle?

    Minus 10. Probably the only one in the country.

    Don't know what level 7 means but the only thing better than the new swords one is the tills have a double loading area.


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    #106
    ct5amr2ig1nfhp
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    No idea. They were talking about it on the radio.
    Swords is level 6 I believe they said. Baldoyle is one of their older stores. Haven't they been trying to get planning to upgrade that store for some time?
    neris wrote: »
    then what level is the one is Baldoyle?


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    #107
    neris
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    Delilah Modern Rucksack wrote: »
    Baldoyle is one of their older stores. Haven't they been trying to get planning to upgrade that store for some time?

    they were trying to get PP to build a new store up at the crossroads on the old Grange builders site and waste land there opposite Baldoyle indst estate few years ago but was rejected


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