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Carpetright Ireland closing ??

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    #32
    drury..
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭drury..


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122428410#Comment_122428410

    It's usually the other way round

    UK always seems slow to switch from imperial in other areas



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    #33
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,986 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    UK construction trades went fully metric ~50 years ago

    that's why you get all the 2440x1220mm sheets of chipboard 😉

    I wanted some fully metric measuring tapes (why the only ones you can get here are useless on one side, beats me). No problem getting them from the UK though, pre-Brexit.

    Another funny one - about 15 years ago we were getting our kitchen tiled. Tiler measured up in feet and inches and VERY laboriously converted that to sq yd, and then the conversion factor to sq m. Fair enough, he's old school…

    We went to the tile shop, told them how many sq m we needed. Prices were in sq yd (how is that legal?). They converted to sq yd to give us a price. But of course the tiles came from Spain and each box was 1/2 a square metre… you couldn't make idiocy like this up.

    The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.



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    #34
    Markd518
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    Just seen Ted Baker closing all stores in 3 weeks.....

    Homebase is in talks to be sold

    Alot of uk chains seems to be shutting up shop here



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    #35
    L1011
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430922#Comment_122430922

    Homebase Ireland is in separate talks to be sold to B&Q, they have next to no store overlap so should keep most or all open if they do.

    UK domestic economy is in bits



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    #36
    Markd518
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    Would probably take over the Irish stores and rebrand them all to B&Q



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    #37
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,898 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430939#Comment_122430939

    That's the intent, yes. The UK parent was not (officially…) up for sale which this process started.

    Could still fall through.



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    #38
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,986 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    In the longer run we will probably see more EU chains here instead of UK... Decathlon for one is doing well. I'll get my tiniest violin out for the UK's reaping of what they sowed.

    The Dublin Airport cap is damaging the economy of Ireland as a whole, and must be scrapped forthwith.



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    #39
    JVince
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430922#Comment_122430922

    Nowt to do with Ireland per se.

    We are in the EU, the UK is not. It adds a few extra layers of administration for what is a very small market.

    The only thing we have in common is the same language.

    Plenty of European retailers looking to open here.



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    #40
    drury..
    Registered Users Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭drury..


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122432328#Comment_122432328

    Are they ? Who ?



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