Where the sweaty hell do pound shops get their clobber from?

[Cyclopathic]

5 cans of coke zero for a quid.
200gms Nescafe £1.39
Proper Raleigh key rings with enameled heron £1. (£5. on line somewhere)
2x500 ml bottles of coke £1.00

How do they do this? Where is it from? Admitedly the 5 cans of coke zero for £1 were from multipacks not to be sold seperately, but surely even this bit of shenanigins cannot begin to cover the costs. I can't wait until they start selling plasma tellies and Sonny Vaios.
Does anybody know how they get their impossibly priced stock?

 

[ColinJ]

Obviously one way they can keep prices down is to shift a lot of stock so they can buy in huge quantities at cheaper prices.

There was a documentary about Poundland (I think?) a few weeks ago and it was made clear that some of the apparent bargains are not actually bargains at all. Smaller than normal packet sizes meant the price per 100 gms was not as good as in a typical supermarket.

 

[numbnuts]

yeah what Colin said I saw the program too

 

[ohnovino]

They buy all their stock from the 99p stores and jack up the prices to £1.

 

[ColinJ]

They buy all their stock from the 99p stores and jack up the prices to £1.

My sister told me that there were 99p stores but I didn't believe her until she showed me one!

How could anybody think that a simple concept like 'Everything costs a pound' is bettered by (e.g.) 'Everything costs 50p + 20p + 20p + 5p + 2p + 2p' or 'For everything you buy we give you back an amazingly valuable 1p which you can carry home and put in your Help The Aged collection box'!

 

[MrJamie]

I think some of the stock they've got heavily discounted, probably like the Raleigh keyrings, but the vast majority of other stuff can be bettered by the big supermarkets when they're on specials.

 

[biggs682]

They buy all their stock from the 99p stores and jack up the prices to £1.

so if they do where do the 99p shops got it from !!

 

[ohnovino]

so if they do where do the 99p shops got it from !!

 

[biggs682]

ok that makes sense now

 

[Nicola P]

A lot of it is bankrupt stock.
Worryingly I notice some items which were discontinued in the modern world, years ago, so gawd knows where they've been lurking meanwhile.
I did purchase a superb head-torch for 99p. Oh and a halloween cat's tail. Useful.

 

[Fnaar]

I once needed a knee-support (elasticated thingy). £15 in boots, £1 in the pound shop.

 

[ColinJ]

I once spotted 500mL bottles of citrus degreaser for £1 which I thought was a pretty good deal so I bought 2.

 

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 2089055, member: 45"]Really? How much did that cost then?[/quote]
You've been reading that other thread about young people needing calculators to do simple arithmetic. I, however, am one of those ancients who did learn how to do it at school, so that would be, er, hang on - £1.98. No, wait a minute, it was a pound shop, not the 99p shop down the road - £2!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Some idiot has put the Poundland and the 99p shops at opposite ends of my high street. How am I supposed to compare prices?

 

[Nicola P]

[QUOTE 2089093, member: 1314"]They don't shoe laces. Not in Glasgow, anyway. Think if anything would cost a quid, it would be shoe-laces. Couldn't even find a cobblers in Glasgow city centre. All stations have a cobbler but not those in Glasgow apparently. Couldn't find shoe laces anywhere in Glasgow that day.[/quote]
I just bought a pack of 10 for 99p. For my conkers. I'll bring you a pair when l come to Glasgow if u like!