Poundland
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Poundland is a United Kingdom-based variety store chain which sells every item in its stores for £1. The chain claims[citation needed] to have invented the concept of single-price retailing in Europe and is the largest single-price retailer in Europe. (Price-point retailing was invented in the United States in the 1870s.) They stock a variety of items such as home and kitchen-ware, gifts and healthcare products, many of which are brand name products. Like many of its rivals Poundland operates a constantly rotating product line of cheaply-bought bulk products.
In the Eurozone, Poundland is branded as Euroland.
[edit] Staff
Poundland now employees over 3000 staff, the majority working in "front line" positions in the stores. The company union is USDAW.
[edit] Technology
Since November 2003 all of Poundland's stores have been using an advanced point of sale solution developed in-house running on Epson's touchscreen Intelligent Registers (IRs).
