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Ireland). The acquisition also included Stewart's Supermarkets in Northern Ireland. The first Tesco-branded supermarket was the unit acquired by Quinnsworth in the Golden Island Shopping Centre the previous year, which opened as Tesco rather than Quinnsworth in October 1997. All shops were rebranded over the following years, with the rebranding process almost completed by April 2001.
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shops and had a turnover of IR£6 million. It opened its first supermarket outside of Dublin at
Douglas, Cork in December 1971. In 1972, the business, which by then had seven supermarkets (in Ballymun, Dundrum, Rathfarnham, Douglas, Wilton, Galway and Shannon), was acquired by Power Supermarkets Ltd, which in turn was owned by the Weston family and controlled the rival chain,
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centre in Artane, to extend its Ennis and
Wexford shops, and to open new supermarkets in Tullamore and Navan in 1982. It contended that it had bigger and better outlets near the closing shops, including on Baggot Street, where the acquired Five Star supermarket was located directly opposite the existing Quinnsworth outlet.
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Crazy Prices (occasionally Super Crazy Prices) was a brand used by
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supermarket chain and had proposed that the chain open a supermarket in the
Stillorgan Shopping Centre. H Williams rejected the proposal, and Quinn decided to open a supermarket there himself in December 1966, which became the first shop in the Quinnsworth chain. By 1971, Quinnsworth had grown to six
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and that the takeover of Five Star by
Quinnsworth should not have been permitted. Quinnsworth responded by citing size limitations and a modernisation programme, and countered that it was carrying out a major expansion of its Rathfarnham supermarket that year, and that it intended to open a shopping
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On 20 March 1997, it was announced that
Quinnsworth, including its Crazy Prices outlets, had been acquired by the UK supermarket company, Tesco, for IR£630 million. By then, the business had 57 Quinnsworth-branded supermarkets, and 31 branded as Crazy Prices (21 in the Republic of Ireland and 10 in
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During the 1970s, the company was acquired by
Associated British Foods plc. During that period, it used the slogan "Let's get it all together at Quinnsworth". It was one of the leading supermarket chains in Ireland in terms of turnover, and by 1978, it had 41 outlets, rising to 43 outlets in 1979 .
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By 1981, following the acquisition of Five Star, Quinnsworth had 71 supermarkets. That same year, the business announced that it intended to close 7 of its 31 supermarkets in Dublin (in Baggot Street, Blackrock, Dolphin's Barn, Finglas, Killester, Ranelagh and
Rosemount). The Irish Association of
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city) or Friday. KVI branding was Crazy Prices equivalent to the Quinnsworth Yellow pack. It came in blue red and white striped packaging. K.V.I. stood for "Keen Value Item" and was the equivalent of the previous Quinnsworth
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