POUNDLAND announced today (July 13) that its second new store in Newport would open on Saturday, July 15 at 8.00am.
Spanning 10,000 ft – nearly twice the size (6,000sq ft) of a normal Poundland – the super-size store will employ 21 colleagues, with 16 transferring from other stores.
The store, which will be found at Unit 5, Spytty Retail Park, Newport will be bright and airy with a modern and contemporary feel.
Designed especially to give customers maximum convenience from extra wide aisles to make navigating the store easier, to trolleys and easy-to-use supermarket-style belted checkouts.
It replaces Poundland’s existing smaller store on the same retail park which closes on Friday, July 14.
Around a third of the store will be dedicated to Pep clothing and home, offering the widest possible range of womenswear, menswear and kidswear from the UK’s fastest growing clothing brand. Poundland has become one of the UK’s top 20 clothing retailers, in under seven years.
In fact, the clothing department is over three times bigger due to the move increasing from 30 bays to a whopping 109 bays.
The Pep Home department will include the latest 2023 ranges, including new kitchen storage options, bathroom accessories and soft furnishings.
In addition to the amazing value shoppers expect in categories such as food and drink, home and pet, entertainment and stationery, there’ll be more choice than ever before – from new greetings card ranges to the most extensive range of toys carried in any Poundland.
Pep Home’s range of faux plants has always been popular, but for those who want to try their hand at the real thing, there will be a selection of house plants to enhance the home.
Poundland Newport will join the growing number of stores to offer chilled and frozen food and it will be one of over 400 stores across the country getting fresh fruit and vegetables.
The whole store will have a modern, contemporary feel from the use of lightboxes, digital signage and mannequins to the clean vistas across the store as replacement stock is kept in the warehouse, not on high shelves across the shop floor.
It will offer a range of small domestic appliances and customers will be able to choose from a broad selection of small domestic appliances from Russell Hobbs, such as toasters, kettles and irons.
The wider than usual range of health and beauty products will include Poundland’s own Make Up Gallery, #6 skincare and brands such as Rimmel and Essence.
Poundland director of retail, Darren Kay, said: “We love being in Newport and following the success of our new Friars Walk store earlier this year, we wanted to bring an even bigger and better store to Spytty.
“And this is exactly what we have done with the move. The store’s size will mean there’s more of our amazing value under one roof across more categories than ever before.
“As well as homeware, clothing and household we will also have fresh and frozen food, alongside our produce all designed so there is everything possible for your convenience shop all under one roof.
“We can’t wait to open the doors on Saturday to customers old and new”
