Welcome to ShopAthy

Thank you for visiting us at ShopAthy.com. You have just found a convenient portal to all the member businesses in and around the Historic town of Athy. Please take some time to browse through the businesses and pick up some of the fantastic value on offer. You might be surprised at just what’s available right on your doorstep.

ShopAthy was set up in February 2009 to stem the negative effects of the current economic downturn. It is a non-profit registered company that seeks to market and promote its member businesses, improve the retailing and commercial environment in the town and ultimately provide additional employment for the town and its people. It is a co-operative response which finds its strength in the diversity and breath of experience of its members.

This website will give you a convenient place to check what's on offer in Athy from each of the member businesses. You can download vouchers for each of the businesses to get even better value. We hope that you will check back regularly to see what’s new in our business directory, to read news updates on our many town improvement projects and to give us your feedback.

SHINE ATHY.

Shine Athy invites you to a Failte Ireland Customer Service workshop.

The workshop is for owner/managers and frontline staff of all businesses in Athy. All participants will receive a Failte Ireland Customer Service Certificate of participation.

The same workshop will be repeated twice, so choose the time that best suits you. The details are as follows:







The Shine town initiative aims to reinvigorate the traditional Irish welcome offered to all visitors. The overall objective of the SHINE TOWN programme is to ensure that tourists visiting Athy, experience the best possible service wherever they go in the town, leading to increased repeat visits, positive word of mouth and recommendations.

The workshop will be great fun and very practical. It will give you useful tools to deliver the best possible customer experience with wonderful, friendly service, displaying the four key behaviours of the SHINE programme: S-omeone who is H-appy, I-nterested, N-atural and E-xpert.


For more information contact ShopAthy