guineys

Guineys (or Micheal Guineys) is a discount department store chain with stores in Dublin and Cork, Republic of Ireland. It is well known for having its three Dublin stores within sight of each other - one on North Earl Street and two on Talbot Street, which run directly into each other off O'Connell Street. In 1940 the Guineys group purchased Clerys and changed the corporate name to Clerys, although they did not rebrand any of their stores. Guineys stores are still laid out in a very traditional style, with customer service levels more accustomed to the 1940s, including tailors on hand even in the sections of the store selling off the peg clothes. When the main store was destroyed in the Dublin Bombings in May 1974, the company turned down the chance to modernise it, and rebuilt the store exactly as it had been prior to the bombings.

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