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why dont we call brixton cheap ville! Woolworths is reborn!!!

matt m said:
well it would be nice to have a shop that, you know, sold stuff that's actually useful

a bit like Woolworths used to
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Yeah....poundland, 99p shop!

Both have been a revelation to me in that they are managing to stock and sell branded items, as well as 'quite' good quality other stuff.

I've noticed how Tesco and Sainsbury are starting to replicate the poundland/99p bargains too, so prices are being slashed right across the shops in Brixton.

Woolworths missed a beat - they shoulda gone down the £1 path.
 
Nanker Phelge said:
Yeah....poundland, 99p shop!

Both have been a revelation to me in that they are managing to stock and sell branded items, as well as 'quite' good quality other stuff.

I've noticed how Tesco and Sainsbury are starting to replicate the poundland/99p bargains too, so prices are being slashed right across the shops in Brixton.

Woolworths missed a beat - they shoulda gone down the £1 path.
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Yeah Poundland has all the stuff I used to buy in Woolworths and it's often better quality as well as being cheaper. I'm talking some like electrical tapes, mugs, car bits and pieces.
All Woolworths did in the end was help kill off local record shops and then the supermarkets came in and finished the job.
No loss at all.
 
Woolworths started out as an everything for a sixpence store itself, so the pound shops are its direct descendants really.

I liked the idea of Woolworths more than the reality really - everything was available cheaper and at better quality elsewhere. From cards to housewares to cds it was more a place you'd go to because you were too lazy to take a trip somewhere better.
 
I disagree about the poundland shop. It's been great for stuff I don't need: so far I've bought a lot of Toblerone, a novel by Mark Gatiss from the League of Gentlemen, a pink cowboy hat, an HG Wells War of the Worlds audiobook, and a squeaky dog toy in the shape of a doughnut. Actually, that's quite a scary list

But everytime I've tried to buy something useful it was too shit to use. Some screwdrivers that wouldn't turn properly cos they weren't set in the handle properly. A tape measure that fell apart almost instantly. I never took them back because for the money it wouldn't have been worth my time in the queue frankly. That kind of illustrates the base-level self-reflexive shittiness of most of the produce there: product with no use-value that isn't even recyclable; landfill waiting to happen.

There is fortunately that arch that still sells DIY stuff and tools.
 
You can get good sweeties and good random tat for a pound. You can't get a good screwdriver for a pound.

I need to find that arch.
 
matt m said:
I disagree about the poundland shop. It's been great for stuff I don't need: so far I've bought a lot of Toblerone, a novel by Mark Gatiss from the League of Gentlemen, a pink cowboy hat, an HG Wells War of the Worlds audiobook, and a squeaky dog toy in the shape of a doughnut. Actually, that's quite a scary list

But everytime I've tried to buy something useful it was too shit to use. Some screwdrivers that wouldn't turn properly cos they weren't set in the handle properly. A tape measure that fell apart almost instantly. I never took them back because for the money it wouldn't have been worth my time in the queue frankly. That kind of illustrates the base-level self-reflexive shittiness of most of the produce there: product with no use-value that isn't even recyclable; landfill waiting to happen.

There is fortunately that arch that still sells DIY stuff and tools.
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I bought 5 lighters for a pound.

One of them was leaking gas. 2 stopped working whilst still full of gas. The other two, the flame's barely there. Heap of shite. Glad I didn't get the 10-pack :D
 
zenie said:
Me sometimes, they have a few good shops there. Why do you ask?
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Cos the independent shops sell the most obnoxious clothing - either some fucked-up cheapo baseball/basketball style look, or some hideous african like trousers - is it made of gold or urine yellow?

Just my personal experience that's all.
 
So after all the suggestions about what would be the new Woolworths, what we actually got is a rug shop. Does it sell crap luggage as well?
 
I popped in to have a butcher's

THere's hundreds of cushions :D

There's also loads of dining room tables and chairs and a couple of ugly sofas.

£5 for throws isn't bad though

Shame there were no cheap double duvets as I have guests next week

There was a 13.5 tog single for £6

Oh, and they have a huge assortment of joss-sticks which probably won't please joss-stick seller man outside the tube
 
I haven't smelt joss-stick seller man for ages, which pleases me.

Seems they have been buying stock from failed businesses. At least one ''Italian'' furniture store. I actually liked one of the dining sets.

The rugs weren't as bad as I had been led to believe.


They have a lease for 7 months.

And they do sell crap luggage.
 
Sounds from all this as tho Brixton Woolies has been taken over by the people who used to be installed in the shell of Fads on the Walworth Road, after it stopped being a Fads but before it got turned into a Betfred. They are truly the hermit crabs of retail :D
 
slowjoe said:
Sounds from all this as tho Brixton Woolies has been taken over by the people who used to be installed in the shell of Fads on the Walworth Road, after it stopped being a Fads but before it got turned into a Betfred. They are truly the hermit crabs of retail :D
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I was thinking the same myself when I saw an identical throw in Woollies that I bought from Walworth Road :o
 
But Elizabeth Young, a 20-something shopper who had wandered in to browse, was unconvinced. "Brixton's becoming a bit more cosmopolitan, and this is so cheap it just doesn't fit in with that," she said. "I was told by my estate agent when I bought my flat earlier this month that due to the recession, all the poor people would be moving out of Brixton by the end of 2009".
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:hmm:
 
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