The Money Shot: Poundland treasures

It's the Aladdin's cave of the street, containing a veritable teemingness of low cost treats and necessities for young and previous alike.
But Poundland's years of success following the recession is speed down once the notable chain reportable share losses in the week of over 2 hundredth following a call in sales and profits.

In what the cash Shot thinks may be a initial in retail history, Poundland goddamn its woes on a call in the sale of loom bands.

If you are too recent for loom bands or not endued with very little 'uns World Health Organization took up the craze, they are tiny plastic circles which may be adorned  along create|to form|to create} jewelry and accessories – and were once magnificently wont to make a (questionable) dress.

While the cash Shot may be a bit recent for loom bands, we tend to do have fond recollections of shopping for childhood treats within the store, from off-brand toys and games to bumper luggage of sweets.

But what goodies are you able to get in Poundland now? within the run up to Christmas, once your great-aunty Jean wants a gift and your mum desires you to shop for one thing for Agnes not far away, Poundland really comes into its own.

We paid a visit to our native branch to check what we tend to may find…

Terrible autobiographies

From reality show contestants to inconceivably young pop stars and footballers, every and each one has at some purpose written (in the loosest sense of the word) their own history.

Alternatively, you may purchase a juicy 'unauthorised' history, filled with salacious, fictional detail – the proper issue to pore over in post-Christmas dinner haze.

Make-up

Did you recognize that Poundland has its own make-up brand? we won't vouch for its quality, however it might be the proper treat for the Zoella-obsessed very little sister/cousin in your life.

Christmas decorations

From tinsel to the tree to table glitter (our favourite), Poundland is that the place to travel for attention-getting decks for your halls. simply confirm you do not place any of it close to a unadorned flame…

Unheard-of sweets

Want to avoid sure sweets and treats during this year's stockings? Head to Poundland to undertake one thing to a small degree different!

CDs from the past

More wonderful stocking fodder will be found within the diversion aisle, as well as CDs from long-forgotten bands. Orson, anyone?

Excellently created gadgets

No stocking is complete while not a USB cable – you'll be able to ne'er have too several, right?
News in short

If you are within the marketplace for a mortgage, you may be in luck – disposal rose by 2 hundredth this November from last year, to £21.8bn. the full was the very best it has been since 2008.

The gender pay gap has barely modified within the last four years, in keeping with the workplace for National Statistics (ONS). The distinction between men and women's pay money for regular staff solely modified by zero.2%, from 9.6% in 2014 to nine.4% in April 2015. At the present rate of modification, it might be fifty years before men and girls have equal pay.

If your Christmas budget stretches additional than Poundland you will be interested to listen to that the world's second-largest diamond was apparently discovered in African nation in the week. it is the biggest diamond to be discovered in over a century, in keeping with the Lucara Diamond firm.
Covered magazine letters

Sir,

I've return to get pleasure from reading the cash Shot at the top of every week. I appreciate its light-hearted combat the week's cash news, and was disturbed and distressed once it had been absent for not one however period of time. does one frequently take such thoughtless breaks from your work?

If doctors, firefighters, police or lecturers down tools and walked far from their work the complete country would fall to its knees, however you are feeling ready to merely drop your pen and provides up for weeks at a time. I hope you look into the opposite hard-working members of society and feel mortified, sir.

I for one won't feel ready to set my army-issue clock by you once more.