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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Poundland Sale |
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| Thu, 12 Jun 2025, 12:04 | |
Jayenkai
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Poundland - For a pound. Linkage
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| Thu, 12 Jun 2025, 12:04 | |
cyangames
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Hopefully it doesb't get removed where I am, we lost Wilko a couple years back and Poundland picked up the slack from that. If that goes then we're kinda stuck for things / resort to just on-line :/
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| Thu, 12 Jun 2025, 14:42 | |
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Kuron |
No matter what shape the company is in, it would seem like 1 pound is a killer deal, but I imagine that deal includes absorbing all of the existing debt. Still, would imagine the stores still have some merchandise in them. Hoping it sticks around. Us normal folks often rely on these budget chains. |
| Thu, 12 Jun 2025, 14:48 | |
Pixel_Outlaw
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We have "Dollar Tree" where I live. It's sad, the prices start at $1.25 now and go through $10.00. Most of the folks working there are on hard drugs and can barely operate towards the end of their shift. My town has fentanyl and meth problems unfortunately. |
| Thu, 12 Jun 2025, 14:59 | |
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Kuron |
During the previous Trump administration, Dollar Tree went up to $1.25 due to the tariffs and the induced shortages, before Covid. After Covid things were up to $5. I went in yesterday, and stopped and stared because there is a price scanner for customers you see when you first come in. With the new tariffs and induced shortages, empty shelves and some things up to $10. Not knocking Trump, just stating timeframe of when it happened and the first increases to $1.25 were before Covid. We have a good Dollar Tree. Great folks and had great folks at all of the ones in TN we went to. In MS? Some were unusable because the shelves were continually blocked by boxes of stock that never got put away. |
| Thu, 12 Jun 2025, 15:15 | |
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Jayenkai
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When Wilco went bust a couple of years ago, Poundland actually took control of a LOT of their stores. I expect the sudden requirement to stock up and staff all of those stores likely caused a lot of the issues they were having. Wilko actually took a lot of their stores from Woolworths, when they went bust. Who could possibly have seen this coming!? -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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| Thu, 12 Jun 2025, 15:23 | |
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Kuron |
Over here back in the day, including in the 70s when I was Lil' Kuron, we had Woolworths and Woolco (which was related, but different). I get misty eyed seeing video from Australia for various news things and seeing KMart thriving and even in malls there. So many happy memories as a child with my grandparents had to do with Kmart. We would always go there for lunch on Sundays, after church (they had a smorgasbord cafeteria in Kmart). Also my great-aunt once fell and broke her knee running for the Blue Light special at Kmart. Was happy to still see some KMarts when I moved to TN, but they closed after being there a couple of years. |
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