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An article in today’s Daily Mail gives 15 examples where well-known brands priced at £1 in a pound-shop retail at approximately 85p elsewh...

This morning’s announcement was an inevitable consequence of post-financial crisis pressures driving shoppers to the bottom layer of the sq...

Given Poundland’s successful flotation in March 2014, it is perhaps time for NAMs to seriously consider Poundshops as part of UK main...

Demand for value retail began as novelty and morphed into need, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. However, as savvy consum...

pic:  City AM News that the Pound shop leader plans to float in March , on the back of a new line-up of retail talent in the boardroom,...

Then perhaps its time to add discounters to your mainstream trade strategies... News that Jane Asher will launch a Poundland bakeware co...

Monday's Poundland item in NamNews resulted in over 250 downloads, indicating a high degree of NAM-interest and perhaps curiosity re pos...

The economic quagmire has provided the perfect breeding ground for general merchandise discounters, who have expanded aggressively – more t...

More than one-in-six products being sold in supermarkets are now priced at exactly £1 or £2, highlighting how the pound shop revolution has...

Given that Marks & Spencer started as a ‘pound shop’ (Penny Bazaar, 1894) and Woolworths followed as a ‘sixpenny store’, it is perhaps v...

In a simple stroke, Tesco have captured several customer-delighters that resonate with consumer interests. Their surprise checkout charges...

It gets worse… In January, not only did a penny make enough difference to close a Poundland branch when a 99p store opened opposite and cau...

For those KAMs planning to marry 'later in the year', our congratulations…For those who cannot afford to wait any longer, why not me...