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TOPIC: Poundland Bust.
#178326
Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
If you increase the prices and dont bother putting price tags on, what do you expect?
 
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#178327
Silent Minority

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If you increase the prices and dont bother putting price tags on, what do you expect?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44446576

It's the much smaller Poundworld that is going bust,not Poundland.
 
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#178328
robbiex

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If you increase the prices and dont bother putting price tags on, what do you expect?

Really, I thought that everything was a £1? It has been going since 1974, who knew? I thought it was about 10 years old at the most.
 
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#178329
Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
It's PoundWORLD that has gone bust. Careful guys, PoundLAND are very litigious.
 
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#178330
Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
Silent Minority wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If you increase the prices and dont bother putting price tags on, what do you expect?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44446576

It's the much smaller Poundworld that is going bust,not Poundland.


Of course. That is what I meant. The names are interchangeable in my befuddled mind.

Robbie, both versions have been selling higher price things for a long time now, and nobody I know can be bothered with the confusion. (It could be just in a couple of places though, but it certainly seems deliberate.)

Even when things are a pound, you have to do mathematical gymnastics to work out the comparative cost because they sell smaller sizes. (Diane Abbot.. Don't bother!)
 
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#178333
Ged D.

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
It’s Poundworld that’s in difficulty not Poundland. They’re totally unconnected.
 
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#178334
Ged D.

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
Surely to not be absorbed into or rebranded House of Fraser?
 
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#178370
In The Know

Re:PoundWORLD Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If you increase the prices and dont bother putting price tags on, what do you expect?

The real reason is that most of the junk they sell is sourced overseas, and the exchange rate has collapsed - mainly due to thick PoundWORLD customers voting Brexit ! (but they are too stupid to understand that !)

The rapid growth in sales (at little profit margin) encouraged massive store expansion (on borrowed money)
 
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#178373
Re:PoundWORLD Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
In The Know wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If you increase the prices and dont bother putting price tags on, what do you expect?

The real reason is that most of the junk they sell is sourced overseas, and the exchange rate has collapsed - mainly due to thick PoundWORLD customers voting Brexit ! (but they are too stupid to understand that !)

The rapid growth in sales (at little profit margin) encouraged massive store expansion (on borrowed money)


If that was the case, wouldn't all of them go under? The same applies to them all.

How do you know Poundworld customers voted to leave?
And wouldn't stuff from China be unaffected?
 
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#178375
andrew

Re:PoundWORLD Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
In The Know wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If you increase the prices and dont bother putting price tags on, what do you expect?

The real reason is that most of the junk they sell is sourced overseas, and the exchange rate has collapsed - mainly due to thick PoundWORLD customers voting Brexit ! (but they are too stupid to understand that !)

The rapid growth in sales (at little profit margin) encouraged massive store expansion (on borrowed money)


Never stepped inside a PoundWorld or Pound Land. I'm sure you can get a lot of things cheaper in the supermarkets.

I get my pet supplies in Wilko.
 
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In The Know

Re:PoundWORLD Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:


If that was the case, wouldn't all of them go under? The same applies to them all.


Not entirely ... the rapid expansion (on borrowed money) tipped them off the cliff.

Others will probably follow shortly ....
 
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#178417
Rick

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
Ged D. wrote:
It’s Poundworld that’s in difficulty not Poundland. They’re totally unconnected.

Well, they're not 'totally' unconnected. They've both got 'pound' in their names.


Poundland seem a bit confused about their brand these days, because they include stuff for £2, £5 and even £10 along with the £1 items. It doesn't really work.
 
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#178418
andrew

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
Poundland bought out their rival 99p Stores. So they can do what they want.
 
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#178422
Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
andrew wrote:
Poundland bought out their rival 99p Stores. So they can do what they want.

Yes, they seem to have made 99p stores almost as crap as poundland is.

I shall miss poundworld because its just about the only place to get decent soap now, and its always handy for emergency butties.
 
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#178428
Sarah Myers

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
I shall miss poundworld - its just about the only place to get decent soap now

May I enquire as to what planet do you currently live on?
 
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#178432
Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
Sarah Myers wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
I shall miss poundworld - its just about the only place to get decent soap now

May I enquire as to what planet do you currently live on?


One in which I dont like or cant use the over perfumed or detergent based soaps which are currently all that is stocked in supermarkets (and with limited choice) and a world in which I prefer plain old Knights Castile and lux, which Poundworld tend to stock.
 
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#178438
Sarah Myers

Re:Poundland Bust. 6 Years, 3 Months ago  
Like thousands of other outlets.
 
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