Ireland flying the good value flag once again
I have been noticing a trend of value returning to Ireland for the last 6 months but I think it has accelerated hugely over the past 4-6 weeks.
Have you noticed it?
Special offers, money off, 2 for 1?
You know what? I love it and embrace it totally. You want my money?, well do me a turn, give me a deal, “can you do anything on that price” is now common to hear among friends.
Too posh to haggle, well you loose.
Accompanying this is a sense of returning to old values, people doing simple things, our parks are full, people are cycling, strolling and picnic’s don’t get me started how many of them we have seen.
This is the positive side of this damn recession and I love.
How about you?
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We were out for a meal with my parents last night in The Malthouse Granary in Clonakilty. Incredible value for money on some fantastic fish dishes. The place was full and turning people away at the door. Other places we passed in same town were like morgues.
A pair of sandals for my Ma in local shoe shop recently were €65. She found the same ones in a local shop in Wexford for €30! So still plenty of gobshites who think they can get away with the rip-offs.
Value+Quality wins no matter what the economy is like. The sooner more Irish biz realise that, the sooner the whole economy will recover.
One biz I’d love to be in for the next couple of years is car repair. Those boys are going to clean up. The era of the back-lane great-value mechanic is back!
What I want to see is the pubs going back to the old days. I loved when the pubs would be packed for the football on a Sunday and we would all head down for a big roast dinner. Recently you would go down to the pubs and get a 10 Euro panini and 6 Euro pint and the place would be empty cause everybody was off driving their rane rovers around the country looking for property. We all got ahead of ourselves in many ways and we got too big for our boots.
@conor
lots of those trades are going to come back
Cobblers, butchers are flying, our throw away society in ending, thanks be to god.
@Niall that ham is on if you want to drop by, crusty bread, ham sangers tomorrow
Why has it taken so long for this to kick in? Biz owners too afaid of losing rather than gaining through cuts? Did it take Tescos cuts to start it? Or people really making the move based on price?
Read article the other day about how prices have come down for holiday makers coming to Ireland. If that had happened before Summer it would’ve been a better boost.
I’ve mixed feelings about it.
As a consumer I’m happy to see that retailers are passing on savings, but as a vendor I’m sick of hearing people use the recession as an excuse for just about everything.
@michele
If I was to pick any company I would pick Blacknight as a shining example of a participant in this new era.
I see your domain offers whizzing by pretty regularly on twitter, fair play to you guys.
Wife being from Ireland, I have watched the country go from friendly and reasonable to surly and expensive over 2 decades on our annual visits (this year we flew from Ireland to Germany, and for many items even Germany was cheaper).
Few years ago, I sat next to an IDA rep at a conference and I told him it was becoming difficult to justify recommending Ireland, and his response was smug – we get the business we want.
This year at a Fortune event, the IDA body language was much more welcoming.
I would love to see back the Ireland I fell in love with in early 90s – people and price wise..
@Pat – thanks
Though we’ve been doing special offers on and off for years
One of the problems we’re seeing is that people use the downturn as an excuse for not paying in a timely fashion or for simply not accepting pricing.