Dunnes Stores is set to close three of its grocery shops by the end of this month.<\/p>\n
It is understood the first of the three stores, in Cornelscourt Village in south Dublin, will close tomorrow.<\/p>\n
This is a small grocery outlet located a few hundred metres from the larger Dunnes Stores supermarket in Cornelscourt Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n
Then next Friday, 31 October, two more stores are set to shut.<\/p>\n
This includes one of the two Dunnes Stores located in the Ilac Centre (48-50 Henry St) in Dublin city centre, and the outlet on West Street in Drogheda, Co Louth.<\/p>\n
News of the closure of the Drogheda store was first reported last week, with up to 30 staff impacted.<\/p>\n
It is understood some workers in the shops that are closing have already been offered redeployment to other Dunnes outlets.<\/p>\n
The closures come despite industry figures earlier this week suggesting take-home grocery sales in Ireland rose by more than 6% in the month to October, with shoppers spending an additional \u20ac67.6m on groceries compared to the same month last year.<\/p>\n
The stats, from Worldpanel by Numerator, also indicate Dunnes has the largest market share of any grocery retailer at 24.4%.<\/p>\n
Dunnes Stores has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunnes Stores is set to close three of its grocery shops by the end of this month. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-140433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115423299845219672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}