Dunnes Stores

Dunnes is a supermarket and clothing retail chain, that is based in Dublin, Ireland. The chain primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain has operations in Great Britain and Spain. The format of the chain's stores include a grocery supermarket operating alongside a clothing/textiles store. The grocery operation only operates in Irish stores and some Northern Irish stores, althoug... more

Dunnes is a supermarket and clothing retail chain, that is based in Dublin, Ireland. The chain primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain has operations in Great Britain and Spain. The format of the chain's stores include a grocery supermarket operating alongside a clothing/textiles store. The grocery operation only operates in Irish stores and some Northern Irish stores, although some limited grocery ranges can be found in the Spanish stores. However some stores contain only textiles, while some (more rarely) contain only a supermarket. The chain was founded in 1944 in Cork by Ben Dunne as a clothing retailer. The food side of the business began in the 1960s. The company opened the first Irish out-of-town shopping centre at Cornelscourt, Co. Dublin, in 1966. The company is particularly known for the lockout/strike of the retail workers union, who refused to handle goods sourced from South Africa, then under apartheid... less