Poundland
About Poundland
Poundland Limited is a British variety store chain founded by Dave Dodd and Steven Smith in 1990, originally selling all of its items at the single price of £1.
On the show — 15 mentions total
The business idea for Poundland came because on their market stall they had a box where everything was 10p and people would just go in and grab something and put their 10p in — they thought they could make this a big thing.
from 602: No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?', 2025-09-25 at 00:32:03 · read transcript
Other times Poundland came up
Right. If you want to go... Let's re-address that balance. Let's do it. Richard, would you give a TV show to the concept of Poundland? Would I give a TV show? Would you think that's a good TV show to make? Sorry, what's you talking about? I've got a format called Poundtrop Wars, which is all about rivalry between different kinds of Okay, that's different to what you said when you walked in the room, which was, would you like a game show and it's about Poundland?
No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?', 2025-09-25 · listen
Because it's really hard to get a hold of fresh stuff there. Basically once a month you get a boat that comes in with fresh fruit and vegetables and everyone legs it to the shop. Six pack of Wotsits, which is £2 at Poundland in the UK is £4 on St Helena and a box of Cornflakes that's £2.85 in the UK is £7 in St Helena. There's not that much else to spend your money on.
584: No Such Thing As Drinking A Sock Full Of Custard, 2025-05-22 · listen
It's got one of those swimming pools where you can put a dance floor over the top of it. They actually, they reduced the price over a Christmas period for a while, thinking that that would be. I didn't know you were so into this. If you said I want all the poundland stuff, they're not going to say no. It's really important to us that that goes to our head office. Listen, if you want to go halves, I am... Right.
No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?', 2025-09-25 · listen
I didn't know you were so into this. but if you said I want all the poundland stuff they're not going to say no it's really important to us that that goes to our head office listen if you want to go halves I am yeah right if you want to go let's readdress that balance yeah let's do it Richard would you would you give a a TV show to the concept of poundland would I think that's a good TV show would like would you think that's a good TV show to make sorry what's you talking about I've got a format called Poundshop Wars, which is all about rivalry between different kinds of pound shop. That's different to what you said when you walked in the room, which was, would you like a game show, and it's about Poundland?
602: No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?', 2025-09-25 · listen
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