Pound World

This Poundworld store is quite large, it is located over 2 floors (Bargain buys on the bottom floor — another chain from Poundworld) and is located next to Barclays, in the old HMV building on Market Street.
This store, for me, really does stand out, although it isn’t the most modern of store, it is huge, which makes me think, Is it too big?, Especially considering it is only a pound shop and not a supermarket, and the fact that pound shops will probably be closer to the bottom of the list, at shoppers visiting a city center, who would rather be looking at shopping for gifts, electronics, clothes.
This store is big, but the range doesn’t seem to stand out as much as any other poundworld, and infact it still seems to be as simply just average, and like the extra space just isn’t needed, I think the aim of this store’s size, is to get you to think it is the best Poundworld, when simply it still is barely average, and is simply a store where you pick up a few «bargains», and put them back down again if they is a queue, which can often be expected from a big store like this.
Most of the products here do stand out to me, and as with Poundworld can shock you about their price, but with electronics, I highly doubt products would be working and safe, if they were only £1 such as car chargers for a phone for example, and most «edible» goods simply seem to be sold at £1 because they are smaller versions than what you would see elsewhere, hence they don’t become a saving, and instead become more of an average deal, or still a little more expensive.
For a store of this size, the queuing situation is not good, and it seems as this is a store, where you would simply only pick up a few items, some people (including me) would just put them down at the sight of the queues, so this could be loosing the store a lot of business, so introducing more tills, and perhaps queuing similar to the Post Office /​Wilko in the Manchester Arndale, could be a good idea to improve sales and the customer experience, which is something every business looks for, every day.
The store isle’s do seem to be a good size, which is an advantage of such a big store, as Pound stores in particular, can often feel like you are shopping at a jumble sale.
They is no lift to Bargain Buys at the bottom, which rules out visiting with prams or buggies, with just a single escalator.
I still feel this store deserves 2 stars, with the queuing situation and the quality /​misleading situation of some items being the key reason for a lower rating.