What
better way to spend a cold Sunday than indoors with The Man I love the moistest
in the whole world.
Well
we did do a very quick walk to the local supermarket and stopped off to look in
the pound Store that has very recently opened right next to the supermarket.
If
you don’t know what a Pound Store is, I’ll tell you. It’s where everything, and
I mean everything, is sold at a pound or less.
Not by weight but by value.
It
sells the cheap nasty toys that won’t last five minutes once the kids start to
play with them, but in multi packs and at that price no one is going to
complain. Food and cleaning products are on the shelves too.
A
couple of weeks ago in the supermarket I bought a bottle of Ciff, like Jiff. A
cream scouring cleaner. Paid nearly £4 for it in the supermarket. Well the
Pound Store has the cheap equivalent at just £1. Even if the quality isn’t quite
as good the value is much much better.
I also bought three cans of chickpeas
for…yes that’s right just £1. Supermarket had it on special down from 69p to
50p per can.
I bought a three pack of small tins of pineapple pieces too,
again the pack was £1, and the same pack in the supermarket would cost me
closer to £2.
Toilet cleaner in there for £1, less than a third of the price in
supermarket.
Makes
you think about the potential mark-up the supermarkets put on their goods when
these stores can sell good at such low prices
The
prices in the supermarket have been slowly creeping up and up. Sometimes only
by a few pence but enough to make me think more about the choices I make.
So, Mr
Sainsbury, The Man and I will be spending less of our hard earned cash in your
store Iceland and the Pound Store will be the shops we will definitely be looking
to first.
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