Superquinn founder Feargal Quinn
Supermarket tycoon and former senator Feargal Quinn, who helped revolutionise shopping in Ireland – including introducing SuperClub, the country’s first supermarket loyalty card, in 1993 – has died.
RIP.
Superquinn founder Feargal Quinn dies aged 82 (RTE)
Meanwhile…
News of his death has sparked a vivid memory of #FeargalQuinn presenting my mother, and every other woman shopping, with a red rose for Mother’s Day in #Superquinn in Bray. Must have been about 1980 or 81. RIP. https://t.co/q3Kii8RNpp
— Alison Begas (@kamfinsa) April 25, 2019
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RTE gave him a full 25 minutes on the RTE News at One, RIP and all that, but 25 minutes?
was listening to that and timing it. He’s a news item. 2 minutes at most to tell us of his passing. Not the likes of Shane Ross extolling his virtues on a news show that lasts 45 minutes an over half of it taken up with this.
Did he have to pay hello money at the pearly gates?
…Feargal ‘friend of israel’ Quinn…
oh how awful bisted.
What a lovely man he was: https://www.thejournal.ie/quinn-proposes-a-bill-to-stop-esb-strikes-1207383-Dec2013/
Was this about the same time that Brendan Ogle & the €80k-earning ESB workers were threatening to cut everyone’s electricity during one of the coldest winters on record?
Apparently, water is so important to the people of this country that it is unconscionable to be charged for it; Quinn was proposing that it wouldn’t be cut off in the event of industrial action…
“introducing SuperClub, the country’s first supermarket loyalty card in 1993”
He was monitising your data before Zuck was even in school
He was a successful Irish person. Irish begrudgers on the web need to take him down a peg or 2.
+1 sadly, fupp them.
RIP Mr Quinn.
+1 Some nasty unhappy foops
+bugrudger…rot you horrible zionazi…
Really BS?
What are you on about you troubled and weird person?
+1
I have several friends who worked in SuperQuinn over the years – they were all on well over the minimum wage, with their wages going up each year. He also used to hire disabled people to work in his stores.