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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

‘Not an attractive place to shop’: how Poundland lost its appeal to shoppers

Poundland shopping trolleys
‘Complicated and confusing’: Poundland said in January it wanted to increase the number of items on sale for a £1 or less from 1,500 to 2,400. However, a banner outside the Luton store still boasted of having the lower number of products at or below that price point. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

“It’s not actually that cheap any more. It’s kind of lost its appeal because everything is not a pound.”

Samantha, a shopper outside Poundland’s Luton retail park outlet who is heading off to B&M to find some better deals, sums up the feelings of many of her fellow bargain hunters and a central problem facing the new owner of the budget retailer.

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