Pound technologies - HDMI cables for retro systems.

[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'

[Harrison]

Very true.

Many already don't understand and will never experience many physical store experiences. Record stores is a huge one. It was an amazing experience in the 80s and 90s spending ages going through the LPs discovering new stuff and not knowing exactly that you had discovered until you got it home and played it. Or even going into a video game store and picking something at random to buy purely based on the boxart.

These days you look at the reviews and scores before making any decision. And with music Spotify and other services have made music throwaway, being able to play a few seconds and move on without giving it a chance. If you had physically purchased an LP you listened to the whole thing to give it a chance and quite often discovered something that grew over time. Books at the next one, although schools are still heavily encouraging children to read and explore physical books which is great. They could have so easily gone down the ebook/tablet root. Physical book don't seem to be being replaced by digital versions in quite the same way. It's still great to get a new book.. the smell, the feel etc, even putting a book mark in the page. I just can't easily read novels digitally. It's different with reference books, because when designing or coding it's very useful to have your reference books in digital form on your phone or table. Still kind of prefer a physical reference book, but it's not as much an issue.