poundland

wtf @ this place

just got

4 x knives
4 x forks
4 x spoons
a hammer
3 x tins of baked beans
mccoys multipack
roll of wrapping paper
11 aaa batteries
adapter for electric shaver

for, yes, nine pounds

document poundland hauls here

Sounds like a reincarnation of the original Woolworths.

Will all pound shops have to raise prices?

NO is the reassuring answer

Poundland has existed for aaaaaaages. In fact, my one-off band for a seasonal gig was called 'Christmas @ Poundland'. Though I became aware of its existence after the chain 'Everything's £1'.

the scart lead i got there was bobbins. the 3" cds also.

the licorice and chocolate raisins i did like.

The retailer claims that their Croydon store is the busiest single-priced discount outlet in the world, generating more than £9 million in revenue per year with 30,000 customers a week, which as of December 2008, was more than any of its yen and dollar counterparts in Japan and the USA respectively.

i haven't tried the adapter or the cutlery yet but i can vouch for the mccoys

apparently they have the financial muscle to persuade snack manufacturers to supply them with lower weight packets of stuff to stay on price.

there are two freezer shops in walking distance of me that are better value for food. the rest of what they do is tat, tbh. can always source better stuff cheaper.

how do these places stay open in the days of amazon/ebay

pain in the arse to buy rawl plugs/scampi fries over the internet

Try buying in bulk.

(helps that rawlplugs also taste like scampi fries)

^^^ so close to an SBing

let's not bring Cheesey Moments into the equation

Revenue £396 million (2009

We have about seven or eight unconnected variations on the theme on my local high street. There aren't that many places to buy basic home essentials (hammers, lightbulbs, mops, etc) that cheaply any more. DIY stores have been taken out of the game by Homebase and local corner shops are almost 100% food now.

The best one in my local area used to do a pretty wide range of Irish products (red lemonade, Chef ketchup, etc).

theyve failed to annex anything local but tis only time

ive been to a departement of poundland in the lower reaches of the lea before and bought too much chocolate iirc

this must be where last flatmate bought cutlery (after all our working forks vanished, vanished to her workplace imo)

it's fucking shit and you could use it like a magician uses balloons.

forkslovetofuckoff ime

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/workaholics-allaboard.gif

^^^^^

apparently they have the financial muscle to persuade snack manufacturers to supply them with lower weight packets of stuff to stay on price.

hmm i did seem to get through that packet of mccoys a bit faster than usual.

not at all surprised to hear that the cutlery is shit. i paid my money and i took my choice.

oh so this is a britishes dollar store then

yes it's poundland

adapter for electric shaver

is this like a 2-pin to 3-pin thing cos I need one of those and the only way i'll remember to look for one in town is if I read this thread at work

Poundland tupperware is approved by this reporter, it's about 1/3 of the price of even other grody discount shops and has yet to fail me in admittedly unarduous tasks

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The "rubbish CD section" has seen a marked improvement lately.

Actual albums that people have bought for full price, back in their day.

Joss Stone, Blur, Misteeq, Space, etc.

Not that you'd buy them now, more that no-one bought their previous stock items in regular shops, that's why they were in aye£1.

(Although I did buy a regular copy of "The Great Escape" for £1, as at the time I bought it on cassette in Thailand, intrenational traveller so I was, and a CD in a chuckout in Blockbusters a bit later)

imagining an 18th century poundeworlde luxury store that the combination of inflation, trading standards and stubborn refusal to just change name has brung low

also, store of the future that only sells corn nibs.

imagining an 18th century poundeworlde luxury store that the combination of inflation, trading standards and stubborn refusal to just change name has brung low

this made me irl lol but it'd be wasted on those swine in the Excelsior thread

it's a worthy concept for a dusty granduncle's occupation in my teen market posh wizard book imo

I got Bruce Lee and Rambo pop art canvas's from Poundland (or Poundworld)...I painted little creatures on them, so it looks like Bruce is beating them up.

for, yes, nine pounds

we're not in the eastern suburbs of sydney anymore

There's one of these near me, I don't know why I don't use it, I must be nuts... I suppose it's because it's not on my way home

Whenever I've gone into one of these shops, I always exit thinking "I won't go back to your Pooounndlaa-and"

ha, me too!

but i always do :-(

Poundland, "Where a man can stand by another man without an ego flying".

They should use that.

xpost damn, and so do I!

That's enough to start a facebook club (or whatever they call it) init?

Hope they open up Poundland in America and call the chain UNITED STATES OF DOLLAR.

i had a splinter in my thumb yesterday and needed a needle. the poundland down the road sorted me out with a whole sewing kit for £1 and i got the splinter out. god bless em

I am currently drinking an instant latte I got from Poundland (8 sachets for a pound). Fucking rubbish so it is.

Poundland in general is pretty good though - I was in the other week and got a shaving adaptor, a pack of four insulating tapes (but with no earthing green/yellow), a countersunk spotlight bulb and a 9-pack of Timeouts to go with my shitty lattes.

shattes?

shittè latte

id guess it would be v hard at any price to make an instant latte that wasnt terrible

Instant cappuccino is a better bet, but still pish.

It was an impulse buy. 12.5p for a shatte- what could possibly go wrong?

I srsly thought this thread was going to be about a new reality tv show about bullies beating people up in some shitty town

6 packs of blue rizlas, and 3 packs of swan ultra-slim filters, 2 quid

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/24/poundland-steps-back-work-experience-scheme

not sure how poundland's retreat from using slave labour is going to affect its prices. my guess is they'll stay at £1.