Blimey.
This morning.
Dublin city centre
Robbie Coombes tweetz:
The queues outside Penneys is unbelievable, going right around the corner onto Parnell street from Mary Street….
Meanwhile….
Queue for #Penneys #Cork at 9.15am pic.twitter.com/fKX2XsPTG0
— Fiona Corcoran (@fiona96fmnews) June 12, 2020
This morning.
Cork City.
Meanwhile…
Some queue in #Limerick as Penneys re-opens…. pic.twitter.com/M3HeKiDt5a
— Nick Rabbitts (@Nick468official) June 12, 2020
This morning.
Limerick city.
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why
A chronic lack of jammies, clearly.
I need socks
Leggings, dear- leggings.
Your favourite item of clothing in the whole world no?
vile so vile, I am fed up seeing the half formed glutes of Eire
Nothing like a firm apple :)
Again with the arses Janet , you really need to get back to the gym for some visual therapy .
I know it’s a sad state of affairs, you’ve put me in the mood for apple balls now clamps,
*core a cooking apple and fill center with crown sugar and cinnamon
* place apple in a butter pastry ( one you’d make for an apple tart ) and surround
* place ball in oven at a lowish heat, serve with crème anglaise or fresh cream
* delish, it’s the weather for it
*brown sugar
sure I broke my elbow two months ago, the official story was I was waving at a neighbor, the truth..I was ogling botty
This is why I adore you
I think she’s a pervert myself.
you’d be right
More reason to adore her presumably…
Indeed.
People have been locked out for 3 months, could they not wait another couple of days… the panic is real people!!
fresh jocks wait for no man, harry.
Are penny’s stocking masks now?
There are online tutorials about how to turn stockings into masks, so technically yes they are.
You can make a house out of concrete but that doesn’t mean that Woodies sells houses.
if that’s Penny’s, imagine how difficult it will be to get into a pub when they reopen. I’m not going anywhere for a few months. Let people get it out of their system.
And I bet when people queue from the night before (with a bag of cans for company) to get a pint there won’t be half the online abuse levelled at them.
how much do you want to bet?
Of course there will be loads of abuse hurled at them.
no one gave out about the throngs of careless fools crowded at the canal in Portobello during the warm weather, so i think pub goers should be safe from scorn. A small walk around Dublin adn you’ll see 90% of the people are ignoring the virus. Disheartening.
Sure they did. There’s always at least one curmudgeon. Look here: https://www.broadsheet.ie/2020/05/27/i-need-you-to-step-out-of-the-car/#comment-2200030
I hate to break it to you cian but broadsheet.ie isn’t the real world.
what has the real world got to do with it?
Fart said “no one gave out “… but someone did.
Dying for a new outfit?
Hate that shop
they could be giving away air-miles
and I still wouldn’t go in there
Why on earth would you queue for ages for a clothes shop? What could possibly be urgent enough to warrant that? Just wait a week and go when theres no queue, and no crowds.
Also – a weekday morning, have they no jobs to go to, etc.
Pennys’s business model is interesting because they bucked the trend and never went online. It is all about high street presence and oddly enough, it still works. They are one if not the fastest growing retail chains in the UK- and doing really well in Europe too.
That is at least part of the reason for the queues.
I remember when the first Primark stores opened on the continent, I thought that it was mad that people would be queuing up to get inside, but well, there was a degree of novelty involved. 4 or 5 years later, there are still often queues to get into Primark, and not only at Christmas, either.
Child labour or almost slave wages and facilities for these workers in warehouses across South Asia, is the real success story behind their business model.
No one cares as long as the leggings are cheap.
Literally every major retailer, apart from American Apparel, manufacture their clothing using the same supply chain, and often the same factories, as Pennys; the only difference is that they charge you 2 or 3 times’ more.
I know. They all do it! But Penny’s/Primark are a huge client of these underpaid practices. It’s interesting to see the hordes of people returning to support this business, but also many of them will have recently supported BLM and rage against the slave trades in history on social media. Do Asian kids/women not count?
According to Marx’s critique of capitalism all profit is accrued from underpaid labour .
Pennies make their clothes in Bangladesh where the worst conditions in the textile industry are to be found. Not all companies do.
It’s not a straightforward issue: yes, there are loads of unresolved issues in the garment industry. But the industry has given jobs to hundreds of thousands of workers, mainly women, who would not have many employment opportunities otherwise. People used to starve to death in Bangladesh all the time; since the textile industry has moved there, people at least have jobs. There are loads of NGOs supporting garment workers in Bangladesh, and none of them are suggesting that the factories should close.
“Where’d ya get the cough, luv?”
“Pennys”.
I chuckled..
Reports of scuffles in the Cork store and Gardai called.
can you imagine the noise in the shop
Just going by these photos of the queues and what I saw earlier in Swords,
the overwhelming customer demographic is female,
young female especially, mainly students I presume?
{I’m old, I have kids in their early and mid 20’s}
Can I ask that you all remember to punch up?
I fear Broadsheet has turned into an alt-right camp
full of alt-right agendas and commenters in the past 3-4 years
Well said Italia!
“Only be mean to people I don’t like, please”, is it?
I’ll punch who I like, figuratively speaking.
good point and apologies for my snobism
It’s not snobbish Janet to discourage people from buying cheap, throwaway tat that’s doing the planet no favours.