Talk:Dunnes Stores

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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)

History (Cornelscourt)
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)

Article Changes
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)

Dunnes' brand is in a bit of a mess at the moment. Any new stores opened since the middle of last year are branded only "Dunnes" with the new white-on-black logo (starting with Henry Street) rather than "Dunnes Stores" and that name is featured on all signage in those stores and on till reciepts. Its' not just textiles-only stores either, Citywest has a supermarket and is just branded "Dunnes" too.

Dunnes is the name over the door of the South Great Georges Street head office. There are two stores on South Great Georges Street also, one is branded "Dunnes Stores" while the other is branded "DunnesHome" (only place I've seen that name over the door). dunnesstores.ie has the new "Dunnes' logo but you'll find mention of Dunnes Stores throughout the site.

But in older stores, the old green small caps "Dunnes Stores" logo is still to be seen everywhere (even on till reciepts) and there doesn't seem to have been a real attempt to rebrand the existing stores. The only one near me that has actually had the name changed from Dunnes Stores to Dunnes is Liffey Valley, but they've had a significant refit anyway.

It doesn't help that while Dunnes themselves announced the name was changing, they continue to run advertising campaigns to this day with "Dunnes Stores" on them.

Looks like they haven't really made their mind up about the reband...seems to be similar to Marks and Spencer and Your M&S (yet another of the many parallels between Dunnes and M&S) --Rdd (talk) 14:23, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 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)

Info section
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)

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St. Bernard branding
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)