Darrers

Darrers Stores was a department store and supermarket brand with outlets in Waterford, Dungarvan, Tramore and Carlow, in Ireland.[1] Operating as a grocers and drapers,[2] Darrers was reputedly one of the first stores to introduce the concept of a free plastic shopping bag. In some parts of Waterford and Carlow, "Darrers Bag" became a synonym for "plastic shopping bag",[3] and retained meme status following the store's closure.[4]

Darrers
IndustryRetail
FoundedDungarvan, Co. Waterford
Defunct2007 (2007)
Key people
Brendan Darrer[1]

The store in Carlow closed in 2007 having traded on the main street, Tullow Street, for 40 years.[5] It followed the closure of the Waterford store earlier in the 2000s.

References
  1. "Untimely death of prominent businessman Brendan Darrer". Munster Express. 15 November 2012. As a supermarket owner and retailer, Mr Darrer [..] prior to retiring from business, operated flagship stores in Waterford, Tramore, Dungarvan and Carlow
  2. World Food Marketing Directory, Volume 1. Euromonitor. 1999. p. 352.
  3. "End of an era as closure is imminent of Darrers". Nationalist and Leinster Times. 24 September 2004 – via Flickr. Ask any middle-aged person upwards for a plastic bag and the chances are they will refer to it as a Darrers bag
  4. "Marc-Ivan's docudrama on Flann O'Brien and his Carlow Connections". Nationalist and Leinster Times. 4 April 2017 – via Flickr. From the Darrers bag to Corcoran's red lemonade, a wonderful glimpse of Carlow through the eyes of one of Ireland's greatest writers filled the airwaves last Saturday night
  5. "Darrers to close". Carlow People. 1 October 2007. Archived from the original on 12 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014.


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