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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AFAIK, Poundtown is in Poundland, so 🤷🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was also just sold for £1!

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Theres a GREAT channel that covers poundland tat called Ashens you should check out then. Thats where I learned of it.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's so interesting to see how people react to something that is so normal to me 🤣

    We also sometimes call it The Pound Shop.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    TIL the yanks have a thing called a dollar store.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Dollar Store, Dollar Tree, Dollar General (where they couldn't keep prices at $1.)

    5 Below - I thought would be a winter clothing/sports store, nope. $5 and below items

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ha. I would have also thought 5 below was a temp. thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There’s one a few miles from my house and I thought the same until this thread.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They opened one in Panama City Beach years ago. It's actually a decent place to bring younger kids if you have them or are hanging out with your nieces/nephews. All kinds of random things at the time.

    I'm sure it's all cheap junk but if you are hanging out and want to find them some quick entertainment they have cheap pool floats/ beach stuff, marker/drawing/coloring sets, TShirts, little plush stuffed animals of things like Lilo and stitch, small Lego sets, sports balls, backyard games and even some shitty headphones and such.

    Can find some activities for them for the weekend and they have fun looking around while you don't have to worry about it being expensive like if you bought a toy at Target or something.

    For us it was usually things like little water guns, water balloons with fillers and big notepads and colored pencils as the kids were 4-12 years old and they loved going there. Not sure how they'll survive the tariffs though.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Two tickets, please, I’d like to ride The Fuck Train to Poundland.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In related news, Americans wear thongs on their feet.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know it’s gonna sound weird, but thanks to Big Clive, I am quite familiar with Poundland.

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  • Somebody's gonna watch some Ashens tonight.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is also the name of my bedroom. :)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Someone has never watched Ashens and it shows.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We have a dog daycare center around here called Pound Town.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    There is also the "Poundstretcher".

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Last I heard about this place, it (the whole company) was sold for one pound.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    There's a Poundtown Burgers in Syracuse

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Man, Europeans are so sexually mature.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    How many pounds to get pounded?

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    me and your mum went to the shops last night

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I took your mother there last night. A real bargain

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    They're committed, at least

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Am I misunderstanding things or is this a bit? Selling an entire dollar store type for the british version of a dollar is absolutely hilarious if true.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The seller thinks the value is net negative to them. The buyer thinks it still has a potential positive value. Both would agree to just hand it over.

    Unfortunately, UK law does not allow that. Consideration must go both ways. The simplest way is to sell for the minimum reasonable amount. $1 is traditional in the US. In the UK it is £1. The other commenters link has a good writeup on the practice.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't know much about Poundland, but I know they're no liars about their advertising. Everything, including the business itself, went for a pound.

    I salute them for their consistency!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Not the onion...?

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Is it right beside Poundtown? LOL

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