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Shops you miss or wish were still around

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  • 21-07-2023 4:10pm
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    jonnreeks
    Registered Users Posts: 417 ✭✭jonnreeks


    Many second hand record stores / exchange places. The internet largely ruined hunting around for that album you couldn't usually find. Yes, it's easier but it took the fun out of it.

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    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,106 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    Argos

    Debenhams

    Roches Stores

    Borders

    Woolworths

    Habitat

    Pier Imports

    Probably loads of others too.



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    Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    Registered Users Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand


    Rainbow records in Carlow town



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    Trampas
    Registered Users Posts: 7,634 ✭✭✭Trampas


    Virgin megastore on Aston quay



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    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,256 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Roches Stores.

    There's bits and pieces that I randomly need every now and then that I have absolutely no idea where to get, since the demise of RS!

    There's no such thing as a haberdashery any more.



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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,679 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Borders, although some of what made it special would be gone now regardless - US magazine market is in such a state it makes the UK/Ireland market look healthy; so the mags section would be tiny; ditto there'd be less DVDs and CDs about.

    Maplin and/or Peats.

    There are still second hand record stores around, I'm planning my occasional trip around the core 3 in Dublin (Spindizzy, RAGE, Freebird) tomorrow; Cork has loads too.



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    AMKC
    Registered Users Posts: 16,006 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
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    A-Wear. They used to have great sales and lovely dresses and skirts.

    Maplin. Only recently I was thinking of the things I could have got there.

    HMV on Henry Street. I've that store.

    Clearys and the other shop that used to be at the top of Talbot Street where sports World is now.

    Carphone Warehouse

    Also there was a great little phone shop on the quays in the early 00s that used to do great deals on phones. Can't remember the name of it but I bought many sim free phones there mostly Nokias.

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    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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    SuperBowserWorld
    Registered Users Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120881269#Comment_120881269

    Yup. The only shopping experience I ever liked 😊 HMV was pokey and more expensive by comparison.



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    Jim_Hodge
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    Woolworths, without a doubt.



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    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 24,860 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    None. I remember the first thing I bought online, Cdwow ~20 years ago, it was cheaper and post came from Hong Kong. The novelty! And then tricks to buy from different country sites. And the pain when the DVD player was region-locked and you could not play an Asian DVD.

    I remember when Amazon UK launched and being so upset they would not ship to Ireland for so so so long.



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    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Murder Ink , was on Dawson Street.

    Stocked a huge range of US published crime fiction.



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    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,407 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    I think Superquinn was a brilliant supermarket and I still really miss it. You could go in and be sure of getting something really nice. Their bakery and deli were top notch as was the fruit/veg and meats. Now it’s all generic pre-packed crap in all the supermarkets. My own local super value which is actually a good one recently stopped doing sliced meats- I was directed to the pre packed section. Utter rubbish



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    gipi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭gipi


    Times Past, which was on Wicklow St in Dublin (there may have been others). Loved mooching for gifts there.



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    scotchy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,193 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Switzers.

    Frawleys.

    O'Conners jeans.

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



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    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users Posts: 6,356 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120881289#Comment_120881289

    Maplin was way over priced. Peats was great before they started selling tat.



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    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Peats

    GAME

    Virgin Megastore



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    washiskin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,363 ✭✭✭washiskin


    Heatons

    We Frame It

    Apollo One

    Times Past

    Woolworths

    Clearys

    Boyers



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    Strumms
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    Peats - a neighbour working there used to give my Dad the heads up on the sales..great staff knew their shît.

    Virgin - not cheap but an enjoyable browse

    Switzers - a family fave.

    Clearys - much missed, again, a nice experience, an elegant department store, had EVERYTHING

    Woolworths - loved the huge pick a mix as a kid

    Boyers - almost giveaway sales… especially sportswear

    Roaches - a Dublin institution…everything from school uniforms to groceries.



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    callaway92
    Registered Users Posts: 14,610 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Has to be Debenhams. Mahon Point ruined for men since it left



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    #20
    Furze99
    Registered Users Posts: 11,088 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    If you don't use them, you lose em :)



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    #21
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,106 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    To the two who miss "Times Past" it actually was Past Times - I'd forgotten about that. It was my mother's go to for birthday presents for years.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Times




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    gipi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭gipi


    Thanks Caranica, I must be slipping!



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    Bridget Clarke
    Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭Bridget Clarke


    The old fashioned sweetshop run by two spinster sisters on the main street in our town. Shelves & shelves of jars of bulls eyes, clove drops , pear drops apple tarts etc. And on the front counter, fizzle sticks, candy cigarettes,pink sugar mice & other such delicacies. The smell in that shop was sufficient to give anybody type 2 diabetes, but it was great.



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    BusyBee1234
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭BusyBee1234


    I have to agree I miss Past Times very much. Also Roches stores, was great to pick up anything really, gifts and stuff for the house



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    Mikaela Silly Stone
    Posts: 0 ✭ Mikaela Silly Stone


    Roches Stores definitely is missed. Their former enormous Cork flagship store is about to be turned into yet another sports shop :(

    Virgin Megastores were somewhere you could go almost as a destination. There’s really nothing like that anymore. You could browse and browse.

    The only place that reminds me of it of it are the large FNAC stores in France.



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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,679 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120882308#Comment_120882308

    Fnac is what the HMV-Waterstones merger should have created. Instead about all it did was dual use vouchers

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


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    Mikaela Silly Stone
    Posts: 0 ✭ Mikaela Silly Stone


    Waterstones in Cork is looking very shabby at the moment. I’m wondering if they’re going to be another victim of the UK retail contraction. It looks like they’ve really not investing.



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    SuperBowserWorld
    Registered Users Posts: 6,980 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120881367#Comment_120881367

    I remember going to Woolworths in Tralee when we were kids on holidays in the 80s. It was a magical place. 😊



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    endofrainbow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    Roches Stores, Frawleys, Cassidys and Woolworths



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    stargazer 68
    Registered Users Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Debenhams and AWear. Good clothes shops in general that aren't aimed at 20 year old with size 8 figures! Went shopping recently and there just aren't any shops left!



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    Bicyclette
    Registered Users Posts: 379 ✭✭Bicyclette


    The Book Depository.

    Roches.

    O'Sullivans Childrens Shoes in Limerick - the staff were all experts at fitting children's shoes and always so nice.

    Nevils Shoes in Limerick. Any time you went in there, you would find something nice. I haven't been able to find anything like it since, and I've tried.



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