Better than Poundland???

julesgr

We have a 99p stores and a Poundland in our local shopping centre, and I think that the 99pstores offer a much better deal they tend to be bigger than most poundlands and a bit more organised. There are at least 46 around now.

Does anyone else use them?

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hammy_the_hammer

julesgr wrote:

We have a 99p stores and a Poundland in our local shopping centre, and I think that the 99pstores offer a much better deal they tend to be bigger than most poundlands and a bit more organised. There are at least 46 around now.

Does anyone else use them?

check here for locations

on the whole i find their prices are 1% cheaper

lamb7994

I find them better than the £1 shops they seem to stock a better range of stock.

Also they seem to have they stock for longer which means you can go back again for it..

Look out for boxes of bic pens normally 12 in a box they're very good.

And yes they're 1% cheaper
James

lamnicholas

Quite amusing on Hounslow High Street, where there is already a Poundland and a 99p Store, someone has opened a '98p Store' and there's a new '90p store' further up the road.

Scarlett1

I have a 99p store local to me, but have noticed a couple of items to be cheaper in wilkos

mdeebee

We have one in Barnsley. It's brill!

All the staff seem to be from Eastern Europe (Poland, FRY?). They are very polite and amenable - some staff in other, more established stores would do well to take notice of the example.

Is it me, or are shop staff getting worse these days? When I was in training, the rudeness, general ignorance and generally bad manners certainly weren't tolerated or acceptable.

julesgr

They're mostly Eastern Europeans or Poles here too, and yes I'd agree wuth you about them being polite and it makes such a difference

mdeebee

Thanks for the reply. That's interesting. I wonder if the company is owned in Eastern Europe?

hammy_the_hammer

two problems with this genre of stores are
1. as someone posts as everything is the same price you can often buy some products cheaper elsewhere ( ie it's not always a bargain )
2. they have to stop selling some products because the manufacturers can't absorb the cost of inflation and neither can the store ....the product becomes uneconomical at a quid.
maybe we'll have £1.10 stores soon

aris

I sent an e-mail to Poundland asking them if inflation (or a weakening of the pound) would eventually force them to change their business model. I got a polite reply back saying that it would stay at 1 pound for the forseeable future :-)

In reality - it will have to change. Personally, I would like to see things that cost more than a pound - but which are bargains.

gatita

grrrrrrrrrrrrh as usual nothing in the Exeter Devon area