Just days after opening its biggest store in the UK in Nottingham, Poundland today confirmed it planned to open a second – even larger – store in the North East on Saturday.
The new Poundland at Teesside Park in Stockton-on-Tees will open at 8.00am next Saturday and at 19,000 square feet will be over three-times the size of an average 6,000 sq ft Poundland store.
Like Nottingham, the new Teesside Park will bring a closed clothing store back to life.
But in a departure from Nottingham, the store will be on two levels with a massive PEP&CO clothing and home department on a 5,500 sq ft mezzanine floor accessed by an escalator and a lift.
Like Nottingham Riverside, the size of the store and the ability to display wide ranges to maximum effect makes it even more attractive to leading brands.
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 a dedicated Rimmel cosmetics display.
At the food-to-go area at the front of the store customers can pick up a takeaway coffee from a Lavazza self-serve bar, and snacks and pastries from the Poundbakery.
Austin Cooke, Poundland’s retail and transformation director, said: “We’re looking forward to bringing the best Poundland in Britain to Teesside.
“Our first store on this scale – in Nottingham –wowed customers who couldn’t believe how amazing the newest and best version of Poundland was, and we can’t wait to bring the same wow experience and range to the North East.”
The Teesside Park store will be complementary to Poundland’s existing store in Stockton-on-Tees which opened two years ago. Poundland was one of the first retailers to move from the Castlegate shopping centre to the top end of town, in support of the Council’s regeneration plans for Stockton.
