Amazon yesterday opened their first checkout free grocery store to the public. The store, named Amazon Go and located in Seattle, USA comes after four years of testing and legwork by the Internet retail giant. So how does it work? The store has a companion app...
Popular discount chain Dealz has announced its plans to open 30 fashion outlets. The retailer will roll out it’s sister brand ‘Pep & Co’ in 30 of its existing Irish stores next month. The Pep & Co stores within a store will create 120 jobs while also...
It’s forecast that Dublin will see 1,300 new hotel rooms added to the capital this year. More than 500 of the rooms will come from extensions to existing hotels while six new hotels are expected to open in the city in in 2018. Dalata, Ireland’s largest hotel group,...
Irish shoppers spent a record €90 million on their grocery shop at Christmas with the average household spending a record €1,532, an increase of €38 on the previous year. David Berry, director at Kantar Worldpanel, comments: “Much of this increase has been driven by...
The Kildare Village shopping outlet has been granted planning permission for a substantial new extension. The expansion will see the development of 2.47 hectares into an additional 6,212 square metres of floor space to the outdoor shopping centre. There will be 29 new...
The Restaurants Association of Ireland is urging restaurants to take a non-refundable deposit when customers are making a booking to guard against ‘no-shows’. The Association is calling on its members to take the deposits as a way to discourage the practice of people...
