Talk:Poundland

Everything's £1 no longer

The slogan "Yes, Everything's £1!" is no longer used: it's been (or is in the course of being) removed from shopfront signs, shelf displays, etc. Several products have been on sale for multiples of £1 for well over a year (like these batteries for £3, this coffee for £3 or these diswasher tablets for £8). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:23, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Fair point and one that needed to be mentioned (even though the lead did say "most"), though rightly some parts needed adjusting. I have made an amendment now so this should be clear and correct. Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:45, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Lots of non-£1 prices now. Cup-a-Soup for 50p, Ambrosia rice pudding for 75p, Walker's French Fries for £1.25, etc. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:52, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

"Advertising" section

Am I the only one with no idea at all what a "key-less keyboard" is? I wasn't even sure if it was a computer keyboard or musical keyboard. I'm guessing computer keyboard as the subsequent sentences talk about computers and Dell. But there's no links and no details about what a "functional key-less keyboard" would be. And it's not clear what "did not go as planned" means. There's a "citation needed" but it seems more than just a citation is needed for this to make sense. 192.222.248.88 (talk) 01:55, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I have no idea either, and a quick google just leads to mirrors and paraphrases of this article. I have removed the paragraph. Thanks for bringing this up. Wham2001 (talk) 08:30, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Wider range of foodstuffs

Rocknrollmancer: regarding the sentence The new Poundland outlet also sells a wider range of foodstuffs including chilled and frozen. - AFAIK all Poundlands have chilled food (even if it's only sandwiches and pasties), and around a quarter have frozen. Why is this new Nottingham one any different? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:24, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Redrose64 - from the various secondary sources (which all seem to be based on the same press releases - churnalism I've only recently learned of) there is much more variation of it (fruit and veg I avoided mentioning, as might have seen it on TV), placing this outlet in company of the discounter stores and from The Independent "Poundland is to open four new flagship outlets and extend its chilled and frozen food line as it defies challenging retail conditions to accelerate its presence on the high street.". I tried to precis the content to avoid brand names (such as Rimmel, and Viido, their own brand of tech products) in order not to over-promote. This newspaper link I purposely avoided as, being all-photos, was too obviously promotional to accord with encyclopedic content.

I saw the Nottingham store on a regional BBC feature. I haven't been in one (Poundland) for over a year, and it was near-closing, and previously was around 2014, so I couldn't attest to any food lines normally carried. I did spend an hour in The Range (retailer) recently for the first time, just to absorb what they sold.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 21:05, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Redrose64: - I've now found the East Midlands Today news items (14 Feb, 18.30PM and 22.25PM) on cable hard drive and the narrative states "...it's the first of the budget chain's main shops to stock fresh fruit and vegetables..." Bananas, potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, grapes, apples, mushrooms, eggs, strawbs and what I believe may netted-up onions are visible in the moving pictures. The fruit and veg lines are planned for 20 other stores during 2022, according to the voice-over.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 22:13, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Right, fresh veg is certainly a new one, but fresh fruit has been available in some Poundlands for several years, as have eggs. The fruit varies a lot, but in one near me I've seen, at different times: apples, blueberries, grapes, oranges, peaches, plums, strawberries. Apples are found most often. Never bananas though, I guess because they have a very short shelf life before they blacken. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:56, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

As some of the published works annotate, certain produce lines were trialled at smaller shops. Bananas can be difficult; I had a small bunch of small proportions from Heron Foods which were OK, mostly, but stayed green overall, £0.89. I have the last three Golden Delicious remaining, harvested from the tree beginning of November!--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 02:18, 1 March 2022 (UTC)