New Blanchardstown Shopping Center 2021 Updates?

Thought I heard somewhere that Zara Home would feature, but appears it's just clothes and accessories. Seems like a missed opportunity as they have nice (but expensive) stuff on the online store!

Yeah but there is a quite a brand loyalty around Zara, I honestly think their homewares would sell well over those from Next and Home Store & More.

It's a new shop to me, never been in one. I was buying a Mac Book on Black Friday, the day they opened. Really nice guy bent over backwards to try and match the deal Apple had on offer buying direct. He couldn't come close, but I give him 10/10 for effort. On the other hand, went into Harveys and Currys to see what they would do. it was like I was a bit of dirt on the bottom of their shoe.

Would highly recommend Shopping in Dom's Shop

I said it in this very thread when I was shot down over a tesco taking over from Debenhams, Blanch Centre going down the Dundrum route (paid parking be next)

yea was in Flannels the other day and thought it did seem to be a big Dubai Bling alright

first thing I noticed was the tiny door....

I guess it might be a way of making a quick escape a bit more difficult 🤣

A Canada Goose jacket there I saw priced at €1049, people may be trying them on, but I'd say the number of people happy to drop over a thousand on a coat is pretty small.

Was in the centre on Friday & see that Yours clothing is closing on xmas eve. V sad to see that go, it didn’t last long at all. The only plus size clothes shop around.

Was in the centre on Fri evening at 20:30 to purchase two vouchers in JDSports. First time in there but what a poorly run store, loads of staff out on the floor for not that many customers, customers were all queuing down the back at the tills. Only two staff manning the tills for a queue of approximate 30 people. I asked one managerial type woman could she not put more personnel on the tills and she advised they didn't have the staff, when I asked about all the workers out on the floor she said they weren't trained and when I asked could she not help out she walked off into the staff room. 20 mins to queue and pay for something as simple as a voucher and had to pity the two workers flat out operating the tills.

I believe the store in question is part of a planning application to merge with River Island next door...presumably to make River Island larger.

Do the regular shops (Dunnes/M&S/even Penneys etc) not offer plus sizes too though? Otherwise where would all plus size shoppers get their clothes from?

the tiny door in Flannels definitely is to slow people trying to escape with a Canada Goose coat or similar but it doesn’t look very effective from a fire safety aspect.

Online.

For men, finding 2XL is hard enough (and they're often tents that are shorter than XL so no use when it's height related), bigger is impossible but nearly all brands do make that size and sell online

Next 2XL is one of the ones that can be quite short unfortunately!

Yeah I popped in a for coffee. Had the place to meself which was fantastic considering the carnage across the way.

Closing down "sale" in Sports World & Heatons, beside Argos. Going to be all change along there.

They've been doing this for years at any store they refurbish. Prices barely change initially, but you will then see "extra 20% off" and then "extra 50% off" in the final week.

It then gets a fairly substantial makeover to one of the new formats - Sports Direct / USC or Sports Direct & Brand Max, or possibly Sports Direct, Brand Max & USC which they have in Carlow.