Poundland… Time to change the name?

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1. Much cheaper in Lidl and Aldi

2. Poundland means a place you pay for things in £s

3. Poundsland

4. They’ve been quite clever in keeping the name but ditching the £1 prices.

   The name and the way the stores look still makes people think they’re getting a bargain when, in fact, you can buy a lot of the items cheaper elsewhere.

5. £7 English pounds for shampoo!

6. It was always a curiosity to me to understand how Poundland and others like it would maintain the concept of everything being a pound with inevitable inflation. Seems those days are firmly gone.

7. Poundland.

   You’ll take a pounding over the price.

8. I’ve thought that for ages, because it’s not actually a land. Just a shop.

9. Don’t get how poundland survived Wilkos didnt

10. I’m sure they used to be very clear when something wasn’t a pound too – a *trial* and having those baskets with a big label on it

    Now it just looks like a normal store. You could genuinely have taken this in Superdrug for all we know (except they tend to have nicer shelves but you get the point)

11. I rarely bother going in Poundland these days, there’s better prices in other shops. 

12. They could keep the name but sell everything by the pound. A pound of shampoo, a pound of headphones, a pound of sun hats.

13. They are no longer the biggest single priced retailer because of this, like everyone else they’ve just become yet another B&M / Home Bargains clone

14. Poundland is extortionate for brands now and has been for a bit. Glad people are finally cottoning on to it

15. I stopped shopping there years ago when I started finding stuff cheaper in other shops.

16. They got fed up of customers messing with them saying ‘excuse me, how much is this?’

    Now they have a reason.

17. Poundland can fuck right off, always full of shit you wouldn’t buy.

    Savers and B&M for the win, occasionally the bigger farmfoods for bulk buys and pound stretchers

18. Even before the price rises Poundland used shrinkflation and unusual sizing to make the £1 prices. 

    You’ve always had to be vigilant shopping there.

19. £2.75 land has a certain ring to it

20. All they have to do is add an S between the D and the L.

21. > unsold and dodgy merch

    Have you not watched any of Ashens’ YouTube videos?! 😛

22. One Below is the new Poundland and most stuff is around the £1 mark

23. I only ever went in if I fancied a Caramac!

24. It’s called Poundland because you’re pounded every time you visit

25. What about poundstrecher?

    A pound can sketch from £1 to £9.99

26. seven-pound land, or in some cases twenty-pound land

27. I always preferred calling them Poundtown

28. You’ll find 2 ice creams for £9 in there soon