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Convenience storesStudent marketing for convenience stores near campus.
Students buy lunch and snacks near campus every day. Here is how convenience stores, forecourts and local retailers win the daily student shop.
Students shop near campus every day. Which door do they choose?
Students buy lunch and snacks near campus every day, and in the weeks before exams they are on campus late revising. For a convenience store, the student shop is a daily habit worth winning: meal deals, coffee, breakfast rolls, top ups and the evening shop on the way back to student housing.
That habit is local. Students choose the store on their route between lectures, the library and where they live. There were 47,600 purpose built student beds in the State at the end of 2025 (Sherry FitzGerald Research, February 2026), and many more students rent in the neighbourhoods next to campus.
Campus posters with a student offer and directions to the store, plus posters in the student neighbourhoods, put your store on that route. A loyalty card or app sign up keeps them coming back.
Where campus postering and sampling fit.
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Posters with directions
A3 posters on campus naming the nearest store and the student offer.
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Student neighbourhoods
Placement around residences and on the routes students walk to the store.
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Student offers
A meal deal or student price on the poster, with a QR or code you can count.
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Loyalty
Stamp cards or app sign ups that turn one visit into a habit.
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Banner or store level
A campaign for a whole banner across several campuses, or for one store near one campus.
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In store sampling
Samples or tastings at the store on campus days, staffed by students.
When it works best.
- September and Freshers': new students find their local shop.
- November to December: late revision and exams.
- January: back to campus.
- April to May: exam season.
Exactly what you get.
No guesswork: these are the parts of every StudentLink campaign.
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Artwork
We adapt your artwork for students or design it, and send it for your approval before print.
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Print
A3 posters, plus a full reserve set for replacements.
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Placement
Campus buildings, students' union areas, library approaches, canteen corridors and the student neighbourhoods nearby, within each campus's rules.
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Monitoring
Two checks during the run. Anything removed, damaged or covered is replaced from the reserve at no extra charge.
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Proof
Photos when the posters go up, and a campaign report at the end.
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Payment
A deposit secures the dates and your category. The balance is due on the campaign report.
One advertiser per category per city.
One advertiser per category per city for each campaign window. If you book, no competitor in your category runs with us in that city at the same time.
Our own placements include Trinity College Dublin and TU Dublin Grangegorman. Other campuses are planned campus by campus, within the rules of each campus. See Irish colleges.
Talk it through. Call or WhatsApp Philip on 087 054 9971, email hello@studentlink.ie, or use the brief form below. Tell us the product, the cities and the dates, and we will come back with a plan and a quote.
Can you run a campaign for one store near one campus?
Yes. We can plan a campaign around a single store and its nearest campus, or for a whole banner across several campuses.
Can the posters name our store and offer?
Yes. The artwork can name the nearest store, the student offer and a QR or code you can count.
Can you place near student residences?
Yes, on approved boards and walls in the student neighbourhoods around campus, as well as on campus within each campus's rules.
Is the category exclusive?
Yes. One advertiser per category per city for each campaign window, so no competing convenience brand runs with us in that city at the same time.
How do we start?
Call or WhatsApp Philip on 087 054 9971, or email hello@studentlink.ie with the stores, campuses and dates.
Got a poster run in mind?
Call or WhatsApp Philip on 087 054 9971 and he'll walk you through it personally.
087 054 9971Prefer to write it down? Use the form and you'll usually hear back within one working day.