Talk:Poundland

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Can someone who knows the geography of the UK please sort the store list out like it it at the top? The website is http://www.poundland.co.uk, and all stores are copied (with the corresponding breaks) from the 'Contact' section. --Killfest2 04:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Just why does Wikipedia need a list of every Poundland store? Since we don't list every McDonald's or Planet Hollywood store we shouldn't be doing it here - it is not Wikipedia's place to provide free advertising. Their website has a storefinder and this article has a link to them - that should be enough. Unless someone can provide an extremely good reason to keep the list I suggest it be scrapped. Fanx 08:55, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Let's stop wikipedia turning into a version of the Thompsons Directory.--The globetrotter 19:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted the page to remove this recently added section: Poundland is extremely popular with school children (many of whom recieve a £1 per week allowance) who take advantage of the low prices and conversely, take advantage of the store's image as "tacky" to taunt eachother i.e.: " x buys her clothes from Poundland! " The latter practice is a device employed by middle class children to those who are poorer. Whilst admittedly pretty funny, and added by a user who does not seem to be a vandal, it's irrelevant to the page when stated in this way. I don't think the children would shop 'to take advantage of the prices', nor is there much chance that £1 is an likely amount for pocket money. You're spot on with the taunts though, but if we add this here, we'd have to add it to Primark, Poundstretcher, and, with reference to 15 Storeys High, create a page for that's not your Mum, that's your Gran. Hmmn, you may have a point here :-)--The globetrotter 21:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Americanisms

I'm not too sure about the recent edit giving an Americanised slant on the text- 'Dollar Store' etc. Is this really a necessary revision? As a UK based chain the current UK slant of 'Poundland is a pound shop and everything there costs a pound' is reasonably understandable should a wiki user in the USA view this article, i'm sure they would most likely be able to understand the distinction and compare Poundland to 'dollar stores' themselves. If anything, the current edit inserts the information concerning 'dollar stores' rather clumsily and leaves me wondering if Poundland is an American concern or an extension of a US multinational. Any thoughts? May well revert the text if there's no comments on this in the next few days. --The globetrotter 12:12, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I agre - removed!! Good spot globetrotter :D --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk)(Review me) 12:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I put back the term "dollar store"in the article, because it is the descriptive term for that type of shop. In the article about the 100-yen shops in Japan, it says "Such shops are analogous to dollar stores in the United States.", meaning it is rather like the American dollar stores. 159753 20:46, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, a fair point, but it's expressed in a more distinct way in that article. Here it seems to me to indicate an American worldview in that it makes the American comparison explicit rather than simply comparative. Is it really necessary to make the distinction anyway? I had never heard the term 'dollar store' before reading the article (honestly), but I nevertheless understood that it probably was a store selling items for a dollar. It's my opinion that if the dollar store entry contains comparative statements noting the similarity of both 100-yen shops and pound shops, then it would be fair to place this analogous note here; wiki doesn't necessarily need to be that explanitory, does it? --The globetrotter 19:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)