Pound shops

[Lamp]

Anyone use them?
Last thing you bought from one?

Going to one this afternoon. Need some gaffer tape & can't be arsed with all the ppl in B&Q

 

[soze]

I go into the one when I am in town. Last time I got 20 cans of compressed air (£1 each) which we use in work and it saves about £3 a tin. And £5 worth of the Millions Sweets was either 20 or 15 packs can't remember.

 

[Overdriven]

Biscuits, shampoo, juice (Bottled stuff) are probably the only reasons I ever go into those sorts of places. Can sometimes get deodorant pretty cheap (Branded stuff too) - Otherwise, no.

 

[Shagrat]

batteries

 

[Access Denied]

Same as Overdriven really. Branded deodreants, sweets and foodstuffs. Everything else is just shit.

 

[Edmond]

Do they sell pr0n?

If not, then i have no desire to enter such an establishment

That is all

 

[Raven]

No because then I would have to go into a shop and that would suck.

 

[Chilly]

christmas decorations almost exclusively.

 

[cHodAX]

Places like B&M and Quality Save are often cheaper as most pound shops are rounding half the stock down to a pound and the other half up. For instance B&M do 3 x 500 ml bottles of Pepsi for a quid, most of the pound shop franchises only do 3 x 330 mil cans for a quid. The list is endless but at least half the time you can find the stuff cheaper elsewhere.

 

[soze]

They had that on Watchdog. One of the 99p stores is the cheapest on the high street for 82% of the stuff in store.

 

[Everz]

No because then I would have to go into a shop and that would suck.

Not everyone is rolling in cash M&S boy.

Me and the gf use them quite regularly, no problems and quite convinient.

 

[Raven]

pfft. I get it from Sainsburys and there is always a deal on of some description on something or other that makes it the same amount as the pound shops. Plus you don't have to waste time and petrol and therefore money going to town.

 

[Everz]

pfft. I get it from Sainsburys and there is always a deal on of some description on something or other that makes it the same amount as the pound shops. Plus you don't have to waste time and petrol and therefore money going to town.

I can't afford a car so I walk .

 

[Job]

How much is the deodarant?

 

[cHodAX]

pfft. I get it from Sainsburys and there is always a deal on of some description on something or other that makes it the same amount as the pound shops. Plus you don't have to waste time and petrol and therefore money going to town.

You are kidding yourself bud, if I do a like for like shop at Sainsbury's and Morrisons it is always a 15-20% price premium at Sainsbury's for pretty much the same quality apart from fresh meat on which Sainsbury's is vastly superior. Morrison's do offer far better general shopping 'bargains' though plus many many more 2 for 1's and 50% off deals. Even then, there are many things that Morrisons are much much expensive for than the pound shops, especially branded toileteries and branded over the counter medicines.

 

[cHodAX]

How much is the deodarant?

£2.

 

[Job]

For a four pack?

 

[cHodAX]

For a four pack?

3 and a bit.

 

[Job]

I went to the money changer at Toronto airport and asked to change pounds into dollars, she did the usual airport thing. looked at me like I was a piece of shit and said 'British pounds?'
'Is there any other' I said
There's Irish 'she replied with smug condescending look.
'Surely they're punts' I replied.
The rest of the transaction was done in silence.

 

[cHodAX]

She thought you were an arrogant British punt I bet!

 

[rynnor]

Use them at work for Joke presents like big tubs of vaseline and hand wipes or really ancient porn

 

[Litmus]

I get batteries, and shampoo and hair stuff from there if I'm passing... And maybe and a drink if I'm thirsty..

Other than that I don't go out of my way looking for the shop.

 

[Zenith.UK]

I went to the money changer at Toronto airport and asked to change pounds into dollars, she did the usual airport thing. looked at me like I was a piece of shit and said 'British pounds?'
'Is there any other' I said
There's Irish 'she replied with smug condescending look.
'Surely they're punts' I replied.
The rest of the transaction was done in silence.

There's no such thing as Irish punts any more. Ireland uses euros.

I use pound shops fairly often. The usual stuff is cheap deodorant, cloths and towels, mop heads, pasta packets, munchies and canned drinks.
Put it this way, we get marshmallows and Haribo from Home Bargains for cheaper than anywhere else, and the kids love it.

 

[dysfunction]

I went to the money changer at Toronto airport and asked to change pounds into dollars, she did the usual airport thing. looked at me like I was a piece of shit and said 'British pounds?'
'Is there any other' I said
There's Irish 'she replied with smug condescending look.
'Surely they're punts' I replied.
The rest of the transaction was done in silence.

There is the Egyptian pound to start with...

 

[Job]

Well it was 1993

 

[megadave]

theyre good enough for buying lighters

 

[gohan]

I went to the money changer at Toronto airport and asked to change pounds into dollars, she did the usual airport thing. looked at me like I was a piece of shit and said 'British pounds?'
'Is there any other' I said
There's Irish 'she replied with smug condescending look.
'Surely they're punts' I replied.
The rest of the transaction was done in silence.

egypt still uses the pound, cyprus did up until 2009 there are probably others, but most likely she just though you were a cunt

 

[Raven]

I always call it pounds sterling, because, you know...people aren't psychic.

 

[cHodAX]

Malta use pounds don't they?

 

[gohan]

They use malteasers I think