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

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And they've already closed around 100.

It used to be called Poundland because everything in there was a pound. Then a few years ago, they started selling loads of things that were £2, and £3, and £4. Then they ramped it up and started selling clothes and shoes and toys and household ornaments and cushions, and general household items and the like, and some stuff started being priced at much more. £8, £10, £15. Even more for some items.

The whole point was that everything was a pound. So they've basically lost their way... I haven't shopped in a Poundland store for about 5 or 6 years now. I use B & M, Poundstretcher, and Home Bargains... Seems like many others have drifted away too, as they're closing down stores left, right, and centre...

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https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/poundland-reveals-more-store-closures-121000388.html

I rarely go in one. Somethings cost more than I'd pay in a regular supermarket and there isn't anything that I can ONLY buy from there.

YABU. There was a time when they could sell a wide range of products for a £1. Then they couldn’t so they had to start selling things for more than a pound. It’s not easy or cheap to change the name of an already established business. In the meantime, people began to buy items that they would have bought at a pound shop online from Shein, temu etc.

Yanbu

My local poundland is run down anyway - although they do sell very useful DIY bits and bobs, like drill bits and allen keys for £1

Will have to stock up 👀

More likely that consumers soon cottoned on that some items were less than £1 elsewhere!

While it was owned by Pepco they should have changed their name to Pepco which is what the stores in some other European countries are called.
The "wah wah it's not a pound anymore" people could have stopped moaning and it would have been just a regular shop selling useful items at a reasonable price.
I'm pissed off that so many of my local branches have closed because I regularly shopped there.

We never go in there. Not our sort of place

They should have kept selling items for a £1. Or changed their name to twopoundland and sold everything for £2. The single price point was their gimmick and once that was gone, people weren't interested.

It was good when it started , my best buy ever was wooden brio trains, but now you have Home bargains selling the same things but often branded names at cheaper prices.
Its sad that people will lose their jobs and that there will be another boarded up shop on the high street.

There's far too many of these kind of shops now, Home bargains, B&M, Savers The Range, all selling same items.you can get for same price in most supermarkets.

How do you know.....if you never go in there 🤔

I loved Poundland and I am disappointed that all our local ones have closed.

I bought cleaning stuff, lunchbox biscuits and crisps and their £3 meal deal was brilliant value.
I did think that the clothes would not catch on though.
The staff in our local one were lovely and I feel bad for them losing their jobs just before Christmas.

Sadly the one in the local town isn't on the current closure list but I won't be surprised if it isn't soon.

They painted the entire building the Poundland colour(now hideous) and went into direct competition with a similar locally owned and long established business which most local people continue to support in preference. The Poundland store is almost always empty.

I buy my glasses in there. I'm always losing mine and can't go wrong 3 for £3.00.
I'll have to stock up . I dont know anywhere that does 3.5 reading glasses that cheaply

Same. Everything that was good value is now equal or better somewhere else. Most things are actually more expensive there. They tried to level up with their Pepco range but with the name Poundland they should have kept their USP.

The only good thing there are kid's toys. You can get a decent primary school birthday present there for £3-5 which is better than most places.

Where I live we don’t have B&M or Home Bargains & The Range is out of town. And it’s a handy place to walk to at lunch. So it will be a loss.

I often go in there for bits and bobs.

Doesn't look like ours is in the list of ones closing down though

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My nearest one wasn't on the closure list..... and then it bloody burned down 😭😭😭😭

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I go in all the time, pretty much every time I go shopping as it’s one of the only useful shops on our high street, most are just vape shops, fish markets, butchers, bubble tea, phone shops, so it’s pretty much one of the only shops I go in when I go to my town centre, the likes of B&M and home bargains are quite some distance away from me and usually only in retail parks where I am anyway so I rarely go to them so it’s a shame as I use Poundland a lot.

Pound shops were big in the 90s and early 2000s. Do people have such little understanding of inflation that they still expect shops to be able to stock a wide range of quality products and sell them for £1 whilst making profit in 2025?!

That was my point really, but I do 'get' a pp's point that it was very likely untenable to keep selling stuff for a pound in 2025, when the company started over 30 years ago. Still, as you say, the attraction was that everything is a pound, and now much of the stock isn't.

Well then as a pp said, they should have closed down, and reopened with a rebrand. They can't keep the name Poundland with the tagline 'everything's a pound' when half the stock isn't!

In our local one they kept turning the self serve machines off then would wait till a massive queue at the one person till before putting them back on then as soon as the queue was gone they would run to shut the self serve tills again .
That one has now shut and a massive savers has had it .

In the town they have a huge one that has no self serve at all and one day there was nearly 20 people in the queue with one on the till . It makes no sense . If you’re not gonna have self serve tills then you need to employ the staff to run the tills . I walked out and so did a few of other people . They are losing so much trade. You can get what they sell anywhere else now and sometimes cheaper so they don’t own the market like they used to .

I won’t miss it when it’s gone .

I have seen similar things happen before in various Poundlands too...