Do We Need Another Cheap Shop?!

I agree. Considering how many keep going bust, one wonders why more would spring up. But..........I would not be surprised if many of these stores rise from the ashes under another name and leadership. Probably thinking they can fool the public into scrambling to see what the 'new' store has to offer but finding it is no different to what has gone before.

We go to home bargains for cheap coffee for my husbands work and B and M for dog crisps. We will buy other items once there but only if it is something we actually need. Cheap shops are brilliant but they all sell the same stuff for the same prices so if you go to one there is no point going to another.

I'd think there's even more questionable chicken shops around every corner in U.K. than Pound stores.

Always room for a bargain in my opinion.

Couple of One Below

stores near me and I find them good, everything is exactly that £1

or below.

Not of these poundland special deals

that aren’t actually a £1

I do find each different “pound” shop i go into often has identical stock and i dont see the point in having so many different shops unless they are going to sell different things!

No we definitely don't, especially if they're selling the same things. However, I do like it when they try to outdo each other, particularly during the seasonal periods, as you can make great savings...and then there are the further reductions/clearance when one of the stores close down

I think we need more cheap shops...the business is working so they can make more and more

The format works they sell stuff too cheap to be economic to post from ebay, amazon and other online stores so they are protected from the high street armageddon just like supermarkets. A high street shop really has to ask itself can it provide a product or service cheaper or better than online and these shops fulfill the cheaper option plus you have coffee shops and a few specialist stores like bike shops for higher end bikes or hifi etc. High street shops competing head on with the internet are struggling to say the least until the government comes up with policies that favour the high street more, at the moment they are skewed towards online too much and the price of car parking for high street shopping is a huge deterrent to shopping there.

I don't mind them, and if anything, it helps drive competition, so customers do get quite cheap deals on the high street, sometimes cheaper than online (when considering delivery costs, etc.)