AFAIK, Poundtown is in Poundland, so 🤷🏼♂️
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It was also just sold for £1!
Theres a GREAT channel that covers poundland tat called Ashens you should check out then. Thats where I learned of it.
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.
TIL the yanks have a thing called a dollar store.
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
Ha. I would have also thought 5 below was a temp. thing.
There’s one a few miles from my house and I thought the same until this thread.
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.
In related news, Americans wear thongs on their feet.
I know it’s gonna sound weird, but thanks to Big Clive, I am quite familiar with Poundland.
This is also the name of my bedroom. :)
We have a dog daycare center around here called Pound Town.
Last I heard about this place, it (the whole company) was sold for one pound.
There's a Poundtown Burgers in Syracuse
Man, Europeans are so sexually mature.
Just past Fingerville
Belfast has the red edition.
I took your mother there last night. A real bargain
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.
It's pretty common to sell something for $1, at least in the US, because of laws about gifts vs sale or something. This is just funny because it's a pound shop being sold for a pound.
Edit: I was a bit wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)
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.
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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