pound shop BrE , auch: pound store AmE

It all looks like the sort of thing you'd buy at a pound shop.

You know the ones I mean - they look like pound shops and have all their stock sitting outside.

Only the pound shops and the food bank are said to be thriving.

Shopping at a pound shop was never something to boast about.

An odd strategy but one better implemented in something other than a pound shop.

A former theatre that had burnt down, it looked across to a pound shop.

"I just use shampoo, like the kind you can get in any pound shop up and down the country," he laughed.

Are you being penny wise by shopping in pound shops?

It was just white, like the ones you get from the pound shop that you can paint.

But in any case, the march of the pound shop shows no signs of slowly.

I’m happy for pound shops to enjoy their moment, but buyer beware.

I venture into the wrong places, but they can be picked up cheaply at pound shops.

Staying in Brazil, an internet video shows what happens when you buy a helicopter from the pound shop.

Meanwhile, some Deptford residents fear there are now too many pound shops on their high street.

There were already places where you could buy cheap prints or illustrations - it had to be like a real pound shop.

Video: How do pound shops make their money?

Once it was for having "mobile phones" in the home – they were actually toys purchased from the pound shop.

Seeing people carrying stolen goods out of Poundland – yes, a pound shop.

I probably don't spend as much time in the pound shop as I used to.

I suppose you could call him a pound shop Ben Elton.

Pound shops are a brilliant source of random materials that can be used in inventive ways.

Will all pound shops have to raise prices?

The study also suggested that one in 10 "wealthy" shoppers has turned to pound shops during the economic turmoil of recent years.

I spent as much as I could on costumes in pound shops.

Verdict In times of recession, pound shops thrive because they offer the chance to buy without guilt – 'it’s only £1’.