To not be surprised that Poundland is failing. (Another 14 stores to close.)

Yes, it looked like Wilkos but was not the same.

I think this was the one I went to.

www.wilko.com/en-uk/stores/l/poole/97a-dolphin-centre/805

they are owned by range now. So aren’t quite the same.
Poundland did used to be good at it, I remember influencers covering them a lot. I’ve got some oven dishes from there from about a decade ago. But now it’s just over priced shite.

The wilko near my mother became a Poundland and then that closed as well not much luck there for that premises.

Exactly! They're like Primark for fashion, but for homewares instead.

Yes, shame about Wilko. I was shocked to see there was a Wilko a few weeks ago, I thought they had all gone!

Your spot on @nomas its about following trends isn’t it. home bargains, aldi and lidl all do this really well. With their dupes and social media.
Wilko did it really well too, range not so much as their quality isn’t anywhere near as good (probably how they are going and Wilko is not - Liz truzzs fault).

I think Home Bargains does innovate more though.

A small thing but I find this food storage with removable compartments so useful preparing things like omelette fillings in advance. It's £5 or £6 in many places but £1.99 in Home Bargains.

www.debenhams.com/product/living-and-home-4-compartment-fridge-storage-container-4-detachable-inner-boxes-with-lid_p-fafc0680-024a-4ebb-8940-36e5f602a0a6?colour=White&size=One+Size&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22741463703&gbraid=0AAAAABevdS7zJPUFwXetiT25gWHoKFDRs&gclid=Cj0KCQiAi9rJBhCYARIsALyPDttSx9PvCp4Utz1OP6MI1MCeTmt2jNjeJkXBSOsptSG9lLrVUF4wt_waArVdEALw_wcB

Yep it’s not surprising

If you are going to run a physical (or possible even virtual) store, then some strategy would be nice. Strategy beyond "lets make as much money as possible".

As soon as you go into a shop and find yourself asking "What exactly is this shop ?" then the writing is on the wall.

i understand inflation, so appreciate the £1 bit has long gone. What I object to is paying more than normal supermarkets (let alone Lidl or Aldi)
and the quality is just utter shit now. It’s a shame. They had a good thing going.

@SpottyAardvark but they scrapped "everything for £1" almost a decade ago. How can it still be confusing?

@Ved the owners of Poundstretchers didn't "take over" Poundworld stores - they just took on some of the leases of the empty shops.
The same as Poundland moved into a lot of units that were previously Woolworths.

Poundland is a very badly run company. They had a distinctive USP on which the success of the business was built ; ‘everything’s £1’ But they binned it and now nothing is £1 so their pricing & customer offer is completely incoherent & confusing.

They opened a large store in Leicester city centre, on the site previously occupied by Wilko. It lasted 18 months before closing again. They operated two stores on the same street in Loughborough, less than 100m apart. Now, they have closed both and they don’t have a store in a town of 65k people. They deserve to go bust.

I never said Poundstretchers sold everything for £1.
I have never claimed that. Not once.
However MY research tells me the owners of Poundworld were going to use the name Bargain Buys but they went bust before they did.
As they had never registered the name the owners of Poundstretchers decided to use it.
The owners of Poundworld then started One Below which because One Beyond.
Why are we arguing about this anyway 😂
All I care about is the fact I have no Poundland's to shop in and it annoys me 😂😂😂

We very rarely go in anymore. Lots of their items can be purchased cheaper in B&m and home bargains or for example they used to do toothpaste £1 Colgate but it was because it was actually smaller a lot of their branded items where smaller but people did not seem to realise.

I agree the name should have changed.

@donaldtrumponlyhasonedancemove yeah..... I have too much time on my hands to look up stuff on Google now I haven't got my Poundland's to go shopping in 😁😁
Seriously... I am finding it really irritating now that when I have want to buy something really ordinary like sellotape or some cleaning cloths I have to traipse around further to find a shop selling them when I used to be able to nip into Poundland daily because it was right there on the high street where shops traditionally were found.
It's so annoying.

uh oh...

Except it's wrong....
Poundstretcher never took over Poundworld 😁
(sorry @Ved but they didn't)

I respect your knowledge of budget stores.

Hm, ours is very samey. It's like they wheel the unsold stuff from last year out, blow off the dust and adjust for inflation.

Ours will be closing down I reckon. Which is a shame because our highstreet is pretty much dead as it is.

Huh?
The clothes change every season (ie every 3 months or so).
At the moment it's Christmas and winter clothes.

Of course with household goods and food you'd expect consistency, but they sell home decor and clothing which never seems to change - every other shop refreshes their product lines every year or two but Poundland doesn't (or at least our one doesn't), that's all I mean. It's certainly not going to compete with Home Bargains and B&M which are their main competition.

Why would you buy cleaning products, toiletries, food and everyday items like felt tip pens or batteries from Temu?

But they sell mostly household goods and food so surely you'd expect to find the same products year after year.
The same as supermarkets or Boots etc.
It's not like you buy some toilet cleaner and never need to buy some again. It runs out...you buy more 🤷