Poundland is set to be sold ‘for a pound’: 200 stores face the axe

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14722423/Poundland-set-sold-hundreds-jobs-risk.html

by YchYFi

30 comments

  1. They should sell it for, like, £2.15 just so people can complain one last time. 

  2. How lucky is it labour gave them excuses for mismanagement and nobody wanting to buy cheap tat.

  3. Lost 40 million to shoplifters but apparently Reeves 10 million is to blame 😄

  4. Geez, we’ve only had a new one open in our town about 6 months ago.

  5. How in the name of the good Lord is Poundland going bust?

  6. > sold ‘for a pound’

    Ashens has the chance to do the funniest thing here…

  7. Went down the pan when they decided to become a wilkos / B&M / the range, but worse

  8. I want to buy 200 stores, now here’s a pound… And I want change

  9. I mean, it was inevitable, right?

    Poundland loses its selling point when all of the prices creep up.

    If you go into a Poundland, nothing is even a pound anymore.

  10. I know its lost its way a bit, but i didnt realise it was THAT bad.

  11. How long before Amazon is the only shop. Then they put up thier prices 200% and there is no competition.

    The 2020’s are shit and a con.

  12. You knew what you got with Poundland. Tatty but probably the cheapest you could get it anywhere.

    Then they jacked up prices and somehow reduced the quality. Once Lidl and Aldi showed you can get some decent things for dirt cheap it was game over.

  13. Poundland started to go downhill when all that pepco stuff started to appear

  14. TBH they should have started using the Dealz branding that they have in Ireland etc. when they stopped being £1 for everything. That’s probably when the rot really took hold, people going in and finding out stuff is no longer just £1.

  16. I reckon a lot of what they sell is either loss-leading or low margins (bottles of pop springs to mind)

  17. Another in a long line of chains who built their business on selling substandard products on a false economy. They’ll be replaced by something else that does the same thing.

  18. My local Pondland smells of misery, chip fat and stale fag smoke . It’s also a shit, more expensive Home Bargains.

  19. I’ve known for a while that these cunts are gonna go tits up.

  20. So the only thing in the shop that’s still actually a pound, is the shop itself?

  21. The Range will buy them, we’ve been hearing it around the place Chris Dawson is personally interested

  22. Owners are probably looking to follow in the footsteps of the former owners of 99p stores. Pivot into the lucrative world of social care.

    Wish I was joking. Look up National Care Group.

  23. They lost most of their attraction when everything went over £1 and they became more like B&M. Except you have to travel to the town centre and pay for parking to shop there

  24. I don’t have a problem with PoundLand

    This is a shame but it does seem like there’s sooooo many of these

    I’m not back in the UK much, just back to visit family each year but every high street just has the same stores, it seems

  25. This is self inflicted, I sometimes go in for a drink and the stores are awful, boxes everywhere, massive que to pay, and the self checkouts they use are terrible. B&M has filled alot of there function around my way.

  26. I feel sorry for the people who are working there, I remember it being a little rough depending on who was managing the store I worked at.

  27. They knocked down a long standing library to build the one in Exeter. Still absolutely shocked by that decision.

  28. Flying tiger is a so much happier dollae shop.
    Poundland is depressing

  29. Went too far with the over £1 price point, changed CEO over the last few years as well to a bumbling fuckwit with an attitude problem.

    Sad, good memories of working there and a lot of good people still there too.

  30. How’d they miss the chance to have called those stored “Pound Town”.

    The advertising copy writes itself.

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