Pound technologies - HDMI cables for retro systems.

[J T]

From the topic title I thought this was going to be a discussion on the merits of buying cables from Poundland

[Stephen Coates]

I suspected that too when reading the title.

I did buy an HDMI cable from Poundland a few years ago. It worked fine for hooking my Raspberry Pi up to a monitor.

[J T]

I only shop in the 99p stores now, Poundland is too high end for me

[Stephen Coates]

'99p Stores' got purchased by Poundland a couple of years ago. They are all Poundlands now. I can't help but wonder if people complained about the price increase.

[Harrison]

Some have since been closed down. You know your town is in trouble when you're pound bargain basement stores are shutting.

BTW, when I first discovered this retro cable company I thought exactly the same, wondering what Poundland had to offer. Lol

[J T]

'99p Stores' got purchased by Poundland a couple of years ago. They are all Poundlands now. I can't help but wonder if people complained about the price increase.

I hope this has been investigated by the Monopolies Commission. It's a worrying sign if one single company can corner the whole low-end market.

[Stephen Coates]

They'll probably have an even bigger advantage now that PoundWorld has gone out of business.

[Harrison]

'99p Stores' got purchased by Poundland a couple of years ago. They are all Poundlands now. I can't help but wonder if people complained about the price increase.

I hope this has been investigated by the Monopolies Commission. It's a worrying sign if one single company can corner the whole low-end market.

I think it was more a case of most of the stores going bust so they stepped in to save the stores and the jobs. It's now a similar situation with some of the UK department stores. BHS went out of business a couple of years ago. Now House of Frasier has gone into administration, but SportsDirect has purchased it and currently managing to keep many of their stores open, although sadly my local one in Chichester has just shut, which was a very history store (previously an Ex Army and Navy department store).

[J T]

Future generations may never understand 'Are You Being Served'