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A NEW PENNEYS store has opened in Bray.
It’s the first Penneys in Co Wicklow and is part of a €250 million investment by the company in Ireland over a ten-year period.
The Bray store is expected to create around 100 jobs and Penneys invested €4 million into it.
It’s located in Bray Central and will take up close to 19,600 square feet of retail space across one floor and was officially opened by Emer Higgins, Minister of State with responsibility for Business, Employment and Retail.
The new store, the 38th in the Republic of Ireland, will also feature self-checkout tills.
There is now a Penneys in 21 counties in the Republic, in addition to ten stores in the North.
Fintan Costello, Head of Penneys Ireland and Northern Ireland, said he’s “delighted to finally open our doors in Bray” and that the €4 million investment underscores “the confidence and commitment we have in our home market”.
Penneys, which trades internationally as in the North as Primark, opened its first store in Dublin in 1969 and now employs over 72,000 people across more than 440 stores.
It aims to reach 530 stores by the end of 2026 and entered its 17th market recently, opening its first store in Budapest, Hungary,
This week, it also opened its 25th store in the US in the state of Virginia.
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Cars bad…fast fashion good!
@Emer McDonnell: Not good for landfill.
Great for jobs and extra money spent locally. Poor for the environment and those making the garments!
Dunnes stores better value beats them all.
@noel donohue: better value me h*le
@noel donohue: Tesco, ever little helps
@Kieran Ferrett: Better quality anyway.
Great day for the parish
Penneys speciality, Fast American nickers. A quick yank and they’re off. (I’ve got my coat, where’s the door?)
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: do you not have a drawer full of them already
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: fur coat no nickers I bet ;-)
People might want to have a think about the conditions of the labourers making those garments. Might encourage more ethical purchasing. The life of a factory farmed chicken might be worth investigating too. That’s some grade A cruelty right there. Happy shopping folks x
@Darth O’Leary: so who makes your clothes that you wear
@Darth O’Leary: people are also worried about cost of their clothes and pennys ain’t bad at all for that
@Shane O Mac: go to jd sports pay over 100e for a football jersey tell me where that is made
Same place as pennys
@Shane O Mac: Organic free-range chickens make his clothes for him?
A nice pair of sweatpants and a hoodie, to go with my cans of Dutch Gold and 20 Superkings
@Auld Lad: Maccy D’s KFC only one choice in this city
Looks great on the rack.
There won’t be a mountain goat milked in Wicklow tonight.
Jesus, they’ve been deprived for years. What other counties have been too.
Wow, golly and gee whilikins!
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