A pineapple cup, money napkins and outside candles that I thought were for indoors were my last purchase.
the kind woman at the till was there 16 years and the manager 19. it was quite sad, local businesses in the heart of villages just disappearing along with the jobs. Communities feel so dead lately
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Fuck. Love eurogiant.
I only hope the staff aren’t getting screwed out of redundancy or pension money as has happened in the UK with retail chains. There urgently needs to be a review on what we do with our town centres now everybody buys online. I’m not sure that can ever be put back in the box but there has to exist a diversified local economy instead of money being sucked into a few giant websites.
Every single store?
Ah that’s sad. My mom used to love picking very random quirky stuff from there.
And your purchases there indicate why it’s not really a bad thing.
Disposable crap that is littering the planet sold for a few cents profit so you can satisfy an urge to consume as cheaply as possible.
Oof another large unit shutting on the high street, right next door to the New Look that itself shut mere months earlier. Grim stuff.d
The rise of Temu and Amazon and shein won’t help shops like this. I can happily say I’ve never ordered from any of them.
Have only ever used it for work party stuff but really hope the staff get what they deserve redundancy-wise, and manage to find new jobs quickly.
I guess the availability of similar stuff online via Temu and the like has reduced the market for their stuff.
Was in one yesterday and it was fecking bleak.
A win for the environment. These places pump out plastic shite by the ton, I don’t even want to think about what happens to the stock they don’t sell. Good riddance.
Wait, can you use the outdoor candles inside? Or is that forbidden by Big Candle?
They were great for cheap art and craft supplies.
Feel bad for the staff but terrible shite in there.
That explains the weird stocking the last few months
i am only a month away from flying back to ireland💔 i can’t believe next time i’m there, eurogiant won’t be. 💔 all my sweets and small gifts for family and friends outside ireland came from EuroGiant.
Mr Price but worse in every way.
I just hope that the employees don’t get screwed and are able to sort themselves out. Horrible horrible situation for the two you described.
Absolute tat though, plastic pineapple BPA bottle.
I get many people have memories with it and it’s a change for people. But I won’t miss it. I don’t like buying poor quality plastic stuff that I’ll only use a couple of times.
For a long time it was the only place to get greetings cards for a reasonable price, so I’d go in for that and maybe impulse buy something else from another aisle. Card Factory has taken over the cheaper cards market, and Temu/Aliexpress the rest
One less tat store
This is directly the result of cheap Chinese goods being delivered by post.
Theyre 3 euro for 2 bottles of diet coke deal was banging
Rent was prob a killer
Fret not, we have Tik Tok shop 😒
(I am sorry for the workers here, however)
I was in the one in Mullingar with my son around New Years Eve time. The young man serving us could not have been nicer or more helpful. He went out of his way for us, finding the last 3 remaining packets of sparklers. He was chatting away to an eight year old and some Mam and genuinely seemed interested and engaged. Hopefully it was a part time gig for many students and young people. It’s the long term ones feel especially terrible for. Some of their employees have put serious time in.
What happens when you buy from Temu and dont support your own.
I would have thought when the small package levies from An Post hit on the AliExpress/Temu/Shein shit later this year their business would probably have improved.
I liked it, they had a lot of plastic junk undeniably but they had a good selection of cables and adapters and they did stock durable delph and glassware too.