The BBC had a non-Brexit news story yesterday asking ‘What has happened to Woolworths’ stores 10 years after closure?‘ Checking back on this blog I can see the Woolworths closure was in December 2008.

The article goes on to say ‘Poundland owns the biggest number of ex-Woolworth premises’.

Poundland took over the ex-Woolworths stores in Abingdon, but only after Cargo had run it for a couple of years.

Poundland has been diversifying, and now have £2 sections, and £5 sections, and Pep & Co clothes.

They have many lines such as hardware, and CDs, and pic’n’mix and stationary that are not so very different from what you would have found in Woolworths. The big difference is that in Poundland there is no need for small change.