{"id":415446,"date":"2010-03-11T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-new-british-economy-99p-stores-planning-gigantic-expansion-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-11T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:28:00","slug":"u-k-dollar-stores-bullish-on-poor-customers-and-planning-gigantic-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/415446","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Dollar Stores Bullish On Poor Customers And Planning Gigantic Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b8e42bc7f8b9aed192b0000\/pound-red-uk.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pound red UK\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The business of selling dirt cheap products to cash-strapped Brits is expected to experience massive growth, so much so that the U.K. dollar store &#8217;99p&#8217; is planning to more than double its retail outlets over the next few years:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retail-week.com\/property\/99p-stores-to-build-stores-empire-as-it-targets-turnover-of-1bn\/5011049.article\">Retail Week:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">99p Stores is gunning to open more than 200 stores by 2014, taking its store count to 350, and is targeting turnover of &pound;1bn by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Even competitor Poundstretcher, shown in the picture, has revamped itself with a new look and has a new website slated for launch this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-new-british-economy-99p-stores-planning-gigantic-expansion-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/michigan-consumer-sentiment-index-comes-in-lower-than-expected-2010-2\">Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Delivers A Surprise Drop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/retail-sales-whip-expectations-but-theyre-not-enough-to-help-the-market-2010-2\">Retail Sales Whip Expectations, But They&#8217;re Not Enough To Help The Market<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/long-arugula-whole-foods-is-killing-it-as-high-end-shoppers-are-out-in-force-2010-2\">Long Arugula: Whole Foods Is Killing It, As High-End Shoppers Are Out In Force<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/m9yuRjwXlR8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The business of selling dirt cheap products to cash-strapped Brits is expected to experience massive growth, so much so that the U.K. dollar store &#8217;99p&#8217; is planning to more than double its retail outlets over the next few years: Retail Week: 99p Stores is gunning to open more than 200 stores by 2014, taking its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}