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MORE than eight in 10 Ennis shop- pers think that the town needs a better selection of stores. And the shops that they most want to see in the Clare capital are the high-street stores which are popping up in other Irish cities and towns.
The majority of those calling for a better shopping selection are the young shoppers of the future, with 96 per cent of those aged 14 to 20 say- ing they believe that Ennis requires a
stronger selection of stores.
The British high-street stores fea- tured largely in the survey, both in a question in which respondents were asked, unprompted, which stores they would like to see in Ennis and in a question involving choice of named NIKO) KeKe
Unprompted, River Island, alwear and Marks and Spencers were the first choices for women in the age brackets 14-30 and 40-50+, respec- AYO WA
Brown Thomas, Next and Deben-
hams were among the stores of choice of women in the 30-40 age group. The stores that men aged 30-50+ most want to see come to Ennis in- clude Marks and Spencers, Argos and Homebase, with TK Maxx being first choice for the 14-20-year-olds and Jack and Jones the store most wanted by 20-30-year-old men. Other stores on the top six wish list for Ennis shoppers are No Name, Woody’s, Debenhams, ‘TopShop, B&Q, JJB Sports, Champion Sports, Footlocker and Superquinn.
Given a list of named stores and asked which they would most want to see coming to Ennis, women in the 14-20 age group favoured Zara, with Marks and Spencers as their second 1 aToy (exer
Those in the 20-30 age group pre- ferred their first and second choices the other way around.
Females surveyed in the 30-50+ age bracket all gave their first prefer- ences to Marks and Spencers.
Shaws was a popular second choice for women aged 40-50+-.
Between one third and a half of the female respondents were interested in seeing Eason’s open a store here. Up to one third of women, according to age group, would like to see Moth- ercare open its doors in Ennis.
Between 23 and 36 per cent of women across the age groups sur- veyed said they wanted an Evans store in Ennis.
Eason’s was the second choice for males in the 50+ age group, who put Shaws and Mothercare ahead on their wish list.