The Quays Shopping Centre (or The Quays Newry) is a major retail and leisure centre situated in Newry, County Armagh and is one of Northern Ireland's top shopping destinations with its anchor tenants being Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer.
[2] In February 2018, Marks & Spencer relocated from the Buttercrane Centre to The Quays where a new 30,000 sq ft store was built on the site of the old Sainsbury's filling station.
In September 2023, Domino's announced that they are planning to open a restaurant in the new part of the shopping centre in 2024.
[6][7] The centre has experienced shoppers from the Republic of Ireland, who cross the border to Newry to buy cheaper goods due to difference in currency.
This remarkable increase in cross-border trade has become so widespread that it has lent its name to a general phenomenon known as the Newry effect.