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You're reading the name wrong. The £ sign next to the P makes it "Plundworld". And that just niggled me.
Waterhouse | 05.03.21 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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I am not sure if we have any $2 shops left now. Most things weren't $2. The Japanese owned Daiso have everything at $2.80 which is very close to JPY100 price in Japan.
Andrew | Homepage | 05.03.21 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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Hounslow had a spate of shops trying to undercut each other, so 'The £1 Store', 'The 99p Store', 'The 98p Store', etc.
The 95p-store opened but closed shortly afterwards so that's a likely indication of the lowest limit for survival on thin margins.
MartinO'Holcombe | 05.03.21 - 7:41 a.m. | #
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If Poundland or Poundworld sell packets of full-stops, could you treat yourself to a pack? You appear to have run low on stock.
Jeremy | 05.03.21 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Funny to see the 1/Plus/ sign in this context. It's the logo of 1 Plus, a special interest TV channel run by German public broadcaster ARD in the late 80s and early 90s.
Joachim | 05.03.21 - 7:57 a.m. | #
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You seem to be getting niggled over things more frequently these days during this lockdown. I would suggest that you need to get out more - but that seems to be the problem!
Brian | 05.03.21 - 8:05 a.m. | #
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Many years ago there was a shop in Bedford that advertised "Everything £1 except where price marked". I cam across an item with a price tag of £1. I asked the assistant how much it was and she said it was £1. She didn't understand my argument that it couldn't be as that was the price of non-priced marked items and this item was price marked. That niggled me.
MKIan | 05.03.21 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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One almost wants to see "Hardwares" to complete the set.
The 1-plus logo is even more like this version of the ARD's. I quite enjoy how independent traders brush with bigger brands, like the famously grudging dropping of the O from the Lympic cafe in the area.
NickW | 05.03.21 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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In Newport Pagnell we used to have a shop called "Pound'n'Bargain" where very few things cost a pound and even fewer things were a bargain. That niggled me too.
NPIan | 05.03.21 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Recently spotted misspelling:
Fried burgers,
Freid chicken.
It just niggled me...
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 05.03.21 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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"Baby lamb" advertised at a butcher in Green Street niggled me once.
scrumpy | 05.03.21 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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I'm getting miggled about the number of people showing their niggled-ness today.
Colly | 05.03.21 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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*niggled
Colly | 05.03.21 - 9:17 a.m. | #
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"Fruit Salad chews or a packet of sweet cigarettes" - I am intrigued that your shortest walk appears to take you through a time-space portal back to the 1970's.
Arlu | 05.03.21 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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Ah. Just read it more carefully. Kindly ignore the previous attempt at humour.
Arlu | 05.03.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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In HK we also have Daiso (though it’s called Living Plaza) where almost everything costs $12 - just over a pound.
(and stationeries is probably the usual plural here)
Alan | 05.03.21 - 9:55 a.m. | #
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I can't begin to tell you how niggled i am by....well, everything.
Milo | 05.03.21 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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I notice they have a close circuit security camera installed in case someone tries to steal some house holds.
Nige | 05.03.21 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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The older I get the more niggled I seem to become!
Cornish Cockney | 05.03.21 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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I don't get niggled, I get amused, once each week when my local co-op's self-service till sells me a copy of the Hampshire Chronical.
Joho | Homepage | 05.03.21 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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"House Holds"?
David | 05.03.21 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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These meaningless pricing claims are really common in street advertising. See “All pizzas from £5”
snurk | 05.03.21 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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There's another store down Leytonstone High Road towards Stratford called Pound Plus. A few years ago they had the helpful sign "Some of the items are more than £1 and some are less than £1".
the wub | 05.03.21 - 11:19 a.m. | #
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On the subject of names which are close to bigger brands, I rather like "Singh'sbury" which uses signage remarkably similar to a more famous supermarket!
dg writes: blogged
Steve Rochford | 05.03.21 - 1:59 p.m. | #
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On borrowed logos, there used to be a kebab shop on High Road Leyton called Leyton Forest Kebab, whose logo bore a striking similarity to that of Nottingham Forest FC.
martin | 05.03.21 - 4:04 p.m. | #
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'Furnitures' and 'Beddings' at this store in North Finchley always raises a wry smile.
David | 05.03.21 - 6:13 p.m. | #
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I seem to remember some years ago a shop for what would now be called "pre-loved" items sprang up on Clapham High Street - northern end. It had a replica shop sign to a well-known store in Knightsbridge, but with a slightly different spelling. It did not go down well with the established store. Mind you, when I Googled this nothing came up, so I may have dreamt this!
cau1khead | 06.03.21 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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Was the original Wakefield Poundland called that and was it a discount store like the modern ones? Asking simply because £1 bought you a lot of stuff in 1974. (You could easily get an entire bag of shopping for easily less than £5)
dg advises: Google it.
Agent X | 06.03.21 - 6:55 p.m. | #
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It's January 2022 and Poundworld has sadly closed down (following a closing down sale in which all items were 10% off, which isn't much of a sale in a pound shop, which maybe helps explain why it is no longer a pound shop).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.01.22 - 6:52 p.m. | #
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