We’re joined today by Irish Times journalist Louise Holden for a special guest post on the politics of shopping. Grocery shopping has become complex to the point of absurdity. There has been a steady convolution of the simple act of shopping over the last twenty years, but recession brings a new and bewildering twist. How [...]

This will be my third post about Bray-based click and collect discount grocery warehouse CheepCheep, but they’re cheap, so it bears repeating. It seems, for reasons unknown to me, that they’re relocating premises, and so they’ll be closed from Saturday August 29 for the month of September. As a result, there’s a clearance sale, with [...]

As Jackeen blow-ins to Wicklow, Glendalough Fayre in Laragh came in handy. We’d come from Dublin where there were ethnic food shops everywhere, where specialised ingredients like asefetida, banana leaves, and preserved lemons grew on trees, to a place where our nearest supermarket was at least half an hour away. Glendalough Fayre – our nearest [...]

We wrote about CheepCheep here a few weeks ago. It’s Ireland’s first “click and collect” warehouse; customers select their (non-perishable only) groceries online and collect them from the premises in Bray, Co. Wicklow. It’s a bit like a Cash and Carry for domestic users, and its prices live up to its name. The product range [...]

The food market at Bloom in the Phoenix Park last weekend was one of the best I’ve visited in a long time. The gardens, helped by the blazing sun, were really beautiful, and there were also stands on growing your own food, beekeeping, and wildlife. Over 40 Irish producers were selling jams, cheeses, meats, fish, [...]

“Prices typically 50% cheaper than mainstream supermarkets,” says CheepCheep, a new discount grocery warehouse. Customers reserve their products online and have four days to collect them from the depot in Bray, Co. Wicklow. This is a great initiative and it will be interesting to see how well it does. The company, founded by husband and [...]

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