Pound Shops
Created | Updated Feb 21, 2002
Pound shops are a peculiarly British phenomenon which lure normally sensible people into buying valueless items under the illusion that they're "a good bargain".
Found in almost every high street in the UK, the basic premise is that everything in the shop costs a pound. The goods they stock are spectacular in their variety, and complete listing is impossible, not to say pointless. However, they generally include cheap and easily breakable kitchenware, tasteless gold-painted ornaments and CDs and cassettes of clearly miserable musical value.
Of course, the plainly obvious catch is that up to 90% of all goods bought at pound stores will later be found to be of no practical value whatsoever. They will lie in the bottoms of cupboards unseen until the next time a charity shop does a Christmas campaign.
Found in almost every high street in the UK, the basic premise is that everything in the shop costs a pound. The goods they stock are spectacular in their variety, and complete listing is impossible, not to say pointless. However, they generally include cheap and easily breakable kitchenware, tasteless gold-painted ornaments and CDs and cassettes of clearly miserable musical value.
Of course, the plainly obvious catch is that up to 90% of all goods bought at pound stores will later be found to be of no practical value whatsoever. They will lie in the bottoms of cupboards unseen until the next time a charity shop does a Christmas campaign.
