Dunnes Stores

This shop is great for value shopping both regarding their clothing range and especially their household ware. Another overlooked facility is the restaurant upstairs which is the best value regarding all the majors stores and genuinely tasty.

I love Dunnes Stores and wish we had this one in Wales!!! I’ve been to the one in Cork a few times but never this one until a few days ago. I could spend all day in it! So many bargains to be found and a wonderful range of clothes and household goods; good quality too yet so inexpensive compared to most other high street stores. I would have bought far more but, owing to restrictions on weight on my flight home, I had to restrict myself to a beautiful quilted gilet for £10. Friendly staff too and a nice café upstairs to relax between shopping frenzies!

When growing up this was a bit of a by-​word for cheapness and crap stuff. It was, for me anyway, where I would go once and year to get school shirts to do me the year. Terribly, my Mum took me here one faithful day in 1996 and bought me grey shirts for school. This would be ok but I was the only boy in a 500+ pupil school who wore a grey shirt. Epic Fail.
Since then I haven’t had much call to go into Dunnes but anytime I have been in I have found it to be a perfectly passable shopping experience. You can get everything in here from food to clothes to homewares.
As other reviewers have said, this isn’t the most fashionable place but don’t let that put you off. The staff are dead on as well.

Dune-​ayez, this is what you say if you’re going shopping in Dunnes but wanna disguise it as something posh! So I’m going shopping in Dune-​ayez sounds like your off to get a posh frock in a boutique rather than picking up Dunnes own brand of coke.
Dunnes is a classic family store and they offer great value for money on food and clothes.
This store is large and offers great choice in clothes, some food and homewares.
The clothes aren’t really the most fashionable but it’s a great place to get staples like socks or towels or the like.
The Savida range has the odd nice thing and has a bit more of a classy feel than usual casual stuff.
Shop here if you want great value for money.

Ah Dunnes — ‘better value beats them all’
If I lived in Belfast city centre I would do my shopping here as it is cheap and they have a bigger selection than other rivals. mostly though I go in to look at the clothes.
I love the Savida range which is just slightly more expensive than the regular dunnes brands but very sheek, hip and happening and modern — the garments are true to size and have a nice cut and feel to them — they feel more expensive than they are.
Dunnes is a mothers classic, I was dragged into more times than I care to imagine when I was younger as they do good quality basics for really great prices.
This particular Dunnes has a massive ladies department with lingerie and nightwear on the next floor — the second floor feels empty compared to the bottom floor and sometimes I wonder why they don’t make more of their space?
Anyway, to summerize Dunnes is the dog’ bits — go!

Dunnes really does have a continental feel about the overall layout compared with one of the big stores like Tesco or Sainsburys. When I say continental I don’t mean you’re going to find a fantastic range of wine and craft beer, a cheese counter half the size of the store and prices in Euros but being a southern chain it does feel more welcoming.
Dunnes is cheap — a lot of their fresh foods and popular items are a touch cheaper than the much larger conglomerate of Tesco, it just feels more homely and family owned (even though Dunnes in its own right is a huge company)
I have a ha bit of calling in to pick up the paper and grab some smoked salmon. Nice little place with a solid hot food counter, range is a bit limited but still, worth a shot.

Dunnes is criminally under-​appreciated if you ask me.
It’s cheap as chips for most things, but doesn’t worry me ethically like stores such as Primark do.
The branch on High Street is huge — 4 floors huge — and stocks everything from food to clothing to home wares.
The clothes are pretty hit and miss, and if I’m honest, I don’t buy that much from them, although they’re great for basics like gym clothes or bikinis and such. That said, I have bought a few pieces from there that I’ve worn to death!
What I do love is their bags and shoes. The shoes are cheap, so don’t expect comfort, but if you need shoes to set off an outfit, but don’t want to pay a fortune, visit Dunnes. You’ll probably find something to do you.
The food section is also worth a visit, as they’re very often cheaper than Tesco and Sainsburys.

Dunnes Stores is one of those great Irish institutions which some won’t appreciate until it’s gone. Ah the foresight the recession has given me. A bit like poor old Woolworths, R.I.P., the joys and memories of Dunnes will live long throughout Ireland, north and south.
It wasn’t really until an English friend of mine came to visit that I really ‘got’ how good Dunnes can be. Don’t get me wrong, I love a bargain, but I’d always passed it off as fuddy duddy, granny style clothing. We decided to wander in and take a peek (meaning, have a giggle) at what they had on offer. I was stunned by how many clothes I NEEDED just there and then. I can tell you, ever since, they’ve got a heck of a lot more customer from me. The clothes are actually fashionable! No, really. I’m 22 and I know my own style, I also know what looks good. The clothes here are great. It’s like Primark but better. Better quality, better design, and better in the fact that not every single person walking down the street is wearing the same clothes as you (I CANNOT stand this!)
I haven’t even got to their food hall yet! Talk about a bargain. They give Tesco a run for their money any day. The fresh baked bread in store here is mouth watering. Literally, if I smell it, I have it buy it.
Give it a chance, please don’t pass it off the same way I did, and we can’t let it decline in the same way other local stores are doing.
Viva Dunnes Stores! As they say, Always better value!

This is a good store for kids clothes they seem to have a wider range of baby boys clothes but are all good quality and worth the money you pay. Their food range is also good with lots of bargins to be found and offers on.

This is a fantastic store and completely huge. It has a massive selection of great clothes at bargin prices. The addition of the home store — which is a great place to buy furniture and accessories for a modern stylish look, the store has set itself up as a flagship for the rest of Northern Ireland. It also has a restaurant which serves typical canteen type food and good prices. It really is a one stop shop! Love it.