{"id":68801,"date":"2023-12-09T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T11:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=68801"},"modified":"2023-12-09T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T11:51:48","slug":"full-list-of-10-new-poundland-stores-opening-on-super-saturday-including-former-wilko-locations-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/full-list-of-10-new-poundland-stores-opening-on-super-saturday-including-former-wilko-locations-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Full list of 10 new Poundland stores opening on 'super Saturday' including former Wilko locations | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
POUNDLAND is opening 10 new stores this weekend – in what has been billed as a "super Saturday" of store openings.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0discount retailer\u00a0has confirmed that three of those stores will replace former Wilko locations.<\/p>\n
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The retailer has\u00a0already opened dozens of new stores\u00a0in the first half of this year.<\/p>\n
It comes after the chain opened 87 new stores, 64 of them former Wilko's, in just 70 days.<\/p>\n
Stores will open up in London, Birmingham, Falkirk and Sligo will be part of Poundland's "organic growth campaign".<\/p>\n
Plymouth, Cumbernaud, and Wells will also be welcoming the budget outlet to their towns.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a further three former Wilko locations will begin their Poundland journeys this weekend, bringing the total number of rapid Wilko-to-Poundland conversions to 64. <\/p>\n The shops will mostly include Poundland items but also a selection of\u00a0Wilko\u00a0products that weren't sold during the closing-down sales.<\/p>\n Austin Cooke, Poundland\u2019s managing director said: \u201cWe excitedly continue to open and relocate stores at pace so we can bring our best offer, including all-new clothing, chilled and frozen food \u201cThe monumental effort from our teams continues to amaze me, and it supports jobs and high streets right across Britain.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThat's 87 stores in 70 days that we'll have opened successfully, and no one should underestimate the effort and energy that our teams have put into delivering that achievement – I certainly don\u2019t<\/p>\n "It\u2019s phenomenal!\u201d<\/p>\n Of the 10 new stores this weekend, seven are part of Poundland\u2019s organic growth programme in the following places:<\/p>\n Here's the full list of\u00a0Poundland\u00a0seven shops opening as part of the retailer's "organic growth campaign" this Saturday:<\/p>\n A further three will be Wilko-to-Poundland conversions. These are in:<\/p>\n It comes after the former chairwoman of Wilko apologised to the thousands of people who lost their jobs when the retailer went bust.<\/p>\n Speaking to MPs on the\u00a0Business\u00a0and Trade Committee, Lisa Wilkinson also said former prime minister\u00a0Liz Truss's mini-budget was one of the reasons behind\u00a0the company's collapse\u00a0in August this year.<\/p>\n "I am devastated that we have let each and every one of those people down with the insolvency of\u00a0Wilko," she said.<\/p>\n "I don't know how to put into words how sad I am that we have let down all our team members, all our customers, our suppliers, and our advisers."<\/p>\n<\/picture>HOUSE THAT <\/span><\/p>\n
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