Shopping
Superquinn on the Walkinstown Road. The Ashleaf Shopping Centre, located on Cromwellsfort Road, is the nearest shopping centre and has as anchor tenant Dunnes Stores, providing both supermarket and clothing retail services. Lidl is located on Walkinstown Avenue opposite Walkinstown Park. Aldi is located on the Long Mile Road.
Small commercial enterprises such as newsagents, pharmacies and fast food outlets as well as local branches of the major banks are concentrated in a similar fashion to the area's pubs, at the intersection of the Drimnagh, Walkinstown and Long Mile roads as well as around the Walkinstown Roundabout. There is also a Subway {fast food outlet}, Eddie Rockets and a Polish food store located at the rear of LIDL on Walkinstown Avenue. Walkinstown Medical Centre is on the corner of Thomas Moore Road with Prestige Properties Auctioneers next door.
Walkinstown Mall is located across from Superquinn on the Walkinstown Road. Located at the Mall is a Chinese take away, Papa Johns, Super Macs, a Funeral Home, Barber/Hairdresser, Eastern European food store, Employment Agency and a beauty parlour. Walkinstown Roundabout is one of the busiest in the city. Its construction was held up for many years due to protracted negotiations to purchase a small white washed cottage on the then Walkinstown Cross (scene of many bad motor crashes). The resident was eventually rehoused in a new bungalow at the top of Walkinstown Avenue. This cottage was formally in the centre of the new roundabout.
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Famous quotes containing the word shopping:
“It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.”
—Susan Chira (20th century)
“The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.”
—Henry Fairlie (1924–1990)