{"id":288490,"date":"2026-02-09T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288490\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:12:09","slug":"the-indo-daily-how-dunnes-stores-won-irelands-shopping-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288490\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: How Dunnes Stores won Ireland\u2019s shopping war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dec83a19-db86-4552-9bea-1fc3d44f9d3f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The high street \u2013 or main street if you prefer \u2013 in Ireland has played host to quite the evolution over the past hundred-odd years &#8211; structurally, socially, and of course, commercially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today, bricks-and-mortar stores continue to contest a difficult battle with online retailers, yet certain household names remain mainstay destinations for the average punter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sudden and major change, however, is always lurking around the corner, and at least one big discount chain is hanging in the balance following the announcement that EuroGiant has been placed into liquidation after decades of trading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On the other end of the spectrum, Dunnes Stores has emerged as the most popular spot in the country for shoppers, topping the most recent supermarket league table, with Tesco nipping at its heels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Who is the octogenarian matriarch behind its success?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">And what does it all mean for you, the valued consumer?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On this episode of The Indo Daily, host Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan is joined by Irish Independent group business editor Donal O\u2019Donovan, and by Irish Independent features writer John Meagher, to go wild in the aisles with a comprehensive supermarket sweep.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The high street \u2013 or main street if you prefer \u2013 in Ireland has played host to quite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99066,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-288490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dunnes-stores-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}