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Updated 4. 54 pm
DESPITE RECENT INDUSTRIAL action, Dunnes Stores has grown its sales compared to last year.
The latest figures from retail industry monitor Kantar Worldpanel show that the value of Dunnes’s quarterly market share was 3.6% more than the same quarter in 2014.
By comparison, SuperValu grew its grocery market share by 0.8% while Tesco fell by 3.5%.
Dunnes Stores’s market share has fallen back compared to its rivals more recently. This echoed a similar dip in sales from last year, when sales actually fell by more.
Dunnes Stores’ overall market share was 23.8% back in February of this year but have fallen to 22%.
In 2014, market share fell from 23.6% to 21.5% during the same period.
Kantar point out that Dunnes’s comparatively strong showing owes much to its performance in Dublin, where sales are growing.
Figures show that over a quarter of grocery spending in Dublin happens in Dunnes Stores. This contrasts to the nationwide figure which has its market share at 22%.
Workers at Dunnes Stores went on strike last month and picketed 107 stores around the country. The workers are seeking the implementation of banded-hour contracts, fairer pay and a review of temporary contracts.
The Mandate trade union has not ruled out further industrial action.
(Quarterly market share figures, 2014 v 2015)
SuperValu v Tesco
Last month, SuperValu crept ahead of Tesco in terms of Irish market share but the multinational has clawed back enough sales to draw level again at 25% each.
While Tesco’s market share may be falling, the decline has slowed, allowing it to match SuperValu.
Aldi and Lidl have also continued their growth in Ireland and now combine to make up 16.8% of the Irish grocery market.
It means that about €1 out of every €6 spent on groceries in Ireland is spent in either of the two German retailers.
Despite this, their growth may have plateaued somewhat according to Kantar Worldpanel director David Berry:
One of the most interesting trends in the latest data is the slowing growth rate of both Aldi and Lidl. While the 8.8% growth posted by Aldi and 7.8% for Lidl remains impressive, this is the first time since 2010 that both Aldi and Lidl have grown their sales by less than 10%.
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Rolex is a private company.
Nothing to do with oil, they just don’t like the idea of wealth or expensive things and are now building a populist agenda for attention.
@Paolo Fandango: …and long may they continue. Eat the rich, etc.
@Ajax Penumbra: Sounds like it’s jealousy eating you, to be honest.
@Paolo Fandango: They’re actually a registered charity, believe it or not, which makes the whole situation even more dumb.
@Paolo Fandango: rolex donates 90% of its profits mainly to environmental, science and arts. Rolex.org provides more information
@Paolo Fandango: An stern example should be made for these offences.
@Paolo Fandango: what are they charging them with ?… assault with a deadly colour lol
@Dave Ryan: sure let’s go around to your gaf and cover it in orange paint that would cost a few grand to remove. You wound mind will you?
@Tommy Roche: well said, typical response from a left-wing snowflake
@The Bolt: registering as a charity for tax purposes is what most non profit organizations do. It does not mean they do charitable work. I think the name “charity” should be reserved for specific organisations while “non profit” should apply to the likes of these organisations and religions and sports and social clubs etc.
@Niall Ó Cofaigh: Rolex do distribute 90% of their profits for charitable causes. So although not a charity themselves, as a charitable foundation they do a lot of good for actual charities by way of large cash donations.
@Paolo Fandango: Suppose it’s working, doesnt matter the opinion, all these comments count towards that agenda and justify the publicity. The Ouroboros, etc.
@thesaltyurchin: not sure what comments you’ve been reading but 90+ percent of comments have no mention of agreeing the climate is at massive risk, they all just mention that these protesters are tw@ts.
In some cases any publicity is good publicity but not in this one unfortunately
@barry moore: Splort! So they’re target is actually doing useful things in the area they claim to support.
@Paolo Fandango: Jesus your always an angry little man …ya need to relax sometimes paolo …its not good for you that ya can’t take a joke sometimes…. although your use of the word gaf tells me everything….
@Dave Ryan: I’m fairness you weren’t exactly writing comedy gold there.
What does my use of the word ‘gaf’ tell you?
@Paolo Fandango: Do you think media outlets care wheather your for or against an issue. They just count clicks, posts and likes. Its not even about publicity, its about shifting units.
@thesaltyurchin: although you’re right, it’s not really relative to the overall discussion here.
@Paolo Fandango: This isn’t a ‘discussion’ it’s your own version at a populist agenda.
They should be sent to jail without anything that uses oil. No lights no heating no cooked food no hot drinks.
@bomber: For spraying a bit of paint, get a grip.
@Sos: yeah it’s wasteful
While some manager at a Rolex store is spending his morning looking for a cleaning company, its business as usual for corporations who are actually extracting and selling fossil fuels.
Why didn’t they spray a petrol station?
@Cian Martin: the added irony when said cleaning company has to send out a crew in a van and use supplies/equipment that were produced in another country and flown here. I’m sure people more familiar with this process could chime in, but I cant see the cleaning process being done without the use of fossil fuels
@Cian Martin: And how do think your food shows up in the supermarket or medicines show up in the hospital or the lights come on when you flick the switch. We wouldn’t have civilisation without fossil fuels. People could always boycott those corporations by simply not using anything that uses fossils fuels…. see how far you’d get.
@Cian Martin: I also don‘t understand why they used paint, a petrochemical, oil based chemical which will need solvents and other environmentally harmful chemicals to be removed all contributing to the problem.
Twelve months in the slammer would soften his cough.
@Benny McHale:
Should be doing Time for that caper
Time to stop giving these people a voice until they say something.
@Steve O’Hara-Smith: Do you think your comment and the associated likes are doing that?… Like they catagorise all the angry faces in a different place to the happy ones? lol.
Counterproductive vandalism
@John Byrne: Preffered when Kidult did it, subtle, under the radar. Proper vandalism.
Should have targeted Fossil watch store instead….I’ll get my coat
Met Police were quickly on the scene in their fossil fuel powered cars to arrest them! Then the cleaning crew arrived in their fossil fueled powered vans and started up their fossil fueled powered generators to power hose off the paint!
What a waste of fossil fuel!!
What a bunch a saps. And this is news worthy?
I wonder is the spray paint “Oil Based”???
@M.J. O’ Neill: God I hope its not desperate to get it off the hands
@M.J. O’ Neill: Oil based paints tend to use Linseed oil, not petroleum oil.
I wonder is he available to paint haysheds?
Yesterday Shell published quarterly profits more than double this time last year, this is what should be getting everyone riled up
@Laura Mulcahy: and I read that Europe has so much gas stored that ships cannot unload and the price of gas actually went negative for a time the other day. I agree that we should focus on these companies massive profits and stop blaming the Ukraine war alone
I’ve a Rolex and it operates without fossil fuel
@Paul: that’s the irony. Rolex watches are powered by Kinetic energy from movement of wrist or winding. They’re literally one of the greenest mechanical devices you can buy.
@Paul: More of an Omega fan. Rolex just got to in with the waspy, greaser types.
Exactly where do they propose we get energy from? You can’t just turn it off like a tap, yes we need to look towards renewable energy and honestly nuclear power but this type of nonsense will only damage any positive sentiment towards their cause.
Someone will get badly hurt soon.
wonder would they like it if somebody painted their house orange….Carrying out criminal damage loses all validity of any message they had in the first place. Absolute t8ats
What was going through this guys head as he was spraying a Rolex shop… take that you guys… so there…
Gonna see a few folks arrive here saying ‘’bUT tHE WoRlD Is GoNnA BuRn’’ bla bla bla and ‘’yOuRe MIsSing The POiNt’’
We’re not missing the point. We just see that these folks are being fo0ls.
These dopes throwing paint around are not doing anything to help their supposed cause. They’re just making the average Joe hate them.
@Paolo Fandango: cool story you’ve made up, needs dragons
I hope they are using water based paints
Badly want to start jailing those criminals
Oh no! Where will all the crims get their Rolex’s now?
What a bunch of complete ……! If they really are serious, let them concentrate their efforts on oil companies, petrol stations, car dealerships, airports etc. Those basically responsible for the bulk of emissions, even farmers. ”Mr Van Gogh, Does sunflower oil cause serious emissions” “No Barrycelona, but transporting 600 people to and from jail could give us a starry starry night”.
Is anti Oil or anti Wealth ??
@Koukliahills: The irony is that they can afford paint and fire extinguishers. I’d like to see them clear up their mess for a start. And donate to homeless people instead.
In the process of manufacturing paint there’s bound to be oil used somewhere
Paint looks oil based to me
They aren’t helping the climate
These law breakers won’t have an issue with me destroying their houses
Morons
More product placement…….
Can’t get Heinz soup out of my head
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