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With reference to the statement "The grocery operation only operates in Irish stores." Unless the stores policy has changed during the past few months this is incorrect as the Spanish store at Mijas Costa has a large grocery section catering for British, Irish, German and Scandinavian ex-pats.

Is it possible that the food section also used to be in some UK stores? I'm sure I remember the 'St Bernard' brand food being on sale in the store in Barnsley (possibly in the late 80s / early 90s). I think the food section closed down at some point and vaugely remeber something being said about them closing all their food stores. The rest of the shop remained open for a few more years before the whole lot shut down. Can anyone remember any detials of this? Maybe it would go well in a history section in the article? Evil Eye (talk) 22:11, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

History (Cornelscourt)

Cornelscourt was opened in 1966, and recently (November 27-28 2006) celebrated the 40th anniversary of its opening. As an employee I was present at these celebrations.--83.71.70.232 17:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dunnes Rebranding and branding issues

Dunnes' brand is in a bit of a mess at the moment. Any new stores opened since the middle of last year are branded only "Dunnes" with the new white-on-black logo (starting with Henry Street) rather than "Dunnes Stores" and that name is featured on all signage in those stores and on till reciepts. Its' not just textiles-only stores either, Citywest has a supermarket and is just branded "Dunnes" too.

Dunnes is the name over the door of the South Great Georges Street head office. There are two stores on South Great Georges Street also, one is branded "Dunnes Stores" while the other is branded "DunnesHome" (only place I've seen that name over the door). dunnesstores.ie has the new "Dunnes' logo but you'll find mention of Dunnes Stores throughout the site.

But in older stores, the old green small caps "Dunnes Stores" logo is still to be seen everywhere (even on till reciepts) and there doesn't seem to have been a real attempt to rebrand the existing stores. The only one near me that has actually had the name changed from Dunnes Stores to Dunnes is Liffey Valley, but they've had a significant refit anyway.

It doesn't help that while Dunnes themselves announced the name was changing, they continue to run advertising campaigns to this day with "Dunnes Stores" on them.

Looks like they haven't really made their mind up about the reband...seems to be similar to Marks and Spencer and Your M&S (yet another of the many parallels between Dunnes and M&S) --Rdd (talk) 14:23, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 Unless the stores policy has changed during the past few months this is incorrect as the Spanish store at Mijas Costa has a large grocery section catering for British, Irish, German and Scandinavian ex-pats.
-Is it possible that the food section also used to be in some UK stores? I'm sure I remember the 'St Bernard' brand food being on sale in the store in Barnsley (possibly in the late 80s / early 90s). I think the food section closed down at some point and vaugely remeber something being said about them closing all their food stores. The rest of the shop remained open for a few more years before the whole lot shut down. Can anyone remember any detials of this? Maybe it would go well in a history section in the article? [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] ([[User talk:Evil Eye|talk]]) 22:11, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
+:Is it possible that the food section also used to be in some UK stores? I'm sure I remember the 'St Bernard' brand food being on sale in the store in Barnsley (possibly in the late 80s / early 90s). I think the food section closed down at some point and vaugely remeber something being said about them closing all their food stores. The rest of the shop remained open for a few more years before the whole lot shut down. Can anyone remember any detials of this? Maybe it would go well in a history section in the article? [[User:Evil Eye|Evil Eye]] ([[User talk:Evil Eye|talk]]) 22:11, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 == History (Cornelscourt) ==