Talk:Dunnes Stores

message: With reference to the statement "The grocery operation only operates in Irish stores."
Unless the stores policy has changed during the past few months this is incorrect as the Spanish store at Mijas Costa has a large grocery section catering for British, Irish, German and Scandinavian ex-pats.
:Is it possible that the food section also used to be in some UK stores? I'm sure I remember the 'St Bernard' brand food being on sale in the store in Barnsley (possibly in the late 80s / early 90s). I think the food section closed down at some point and vaugely remeber something being said about them closing all their food stores. The rest of the shop remained open for a few more years before the whole lot shut down. Can anyone remember any detials of this? Maybe it would go well in a history section in the article? Evil Eye (talk) 22:11, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: Cornelscourt was opened in 1966, and recently (November 27-28 2006) celebrated the 40th anniversary of its opening. As an employee I was present at these celebrations.--83.71.70.232 17:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History (Cornelscourt) 

message: Ive been a cash office assitant in Dunnes for the past two years and as far as I can tell, the trading name is still Dunnes Stores, Dunnes is just the homeware department. Consider changing article title. Also the competiton section seems a bit pointless.Mc8755 (talk) 17:14, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They may have tried to rebrand, but the company name is still "Dunnes Stores", and as per common name is still Dunnes Stores.  I believe the article should continue to reside at their main name so I've reverted the recent page move. --HighKing (talk) 16:12, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Changes 

message: The following sentence is to be found in the info section:
"A combination of Food, Textiles and Homewares all under one roof makes Dunnes Stores unique amongst Irish retail companies."
There is no reliable third party source for this statement. For example, I can think of a number of other retail companies existing in Ireland which also offer the same services. But this is not the only problematic sentence. The entire section reads as though it were promotional material and should in my opinion be entirely rewritten as an encyclopaedic entry. ‣Mac Tíre Cowag 07:05, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info section 

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message: I've added a citation needed tag to the claim that the St. Bernard brand was intended to appeal to the Cattholic customer base. This seems very dubious. The branding and general product line closely paralleled the St. Michael brand used by Marks and Spencer in the UK. There was some form of cross-licensing and non-compete agreement between the two companies at the time, with both chains carrying similar merchandise and neither business operating in the other's territory. That arrangement went away with the advent of the EU, with Dunnes opening stores in Northern Ireland and M&S moving into the Republic market. As with much of this article, a lot more reference sources are needed. jxm (talk) 15:15, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Bernard branding