New Poundland store set to open in Hull city centre

“An open Poundland would have been a welcome sight.”

“York is a tourist attraction with a lot more than just upmarket shops. It attracts visitors from all over the world and obviously when they are there, the posh shops are going to try and fleece as much money from them as possible. So it is pointless trying to compare Hull to York, well not until we have open top bus tours around the city anyway.

As for painting Hull in a bad light to visitors getting off the train, I doubt there will be many more after yesterday's One Show. They were in the town centre trying to encourage people to visit the Jerry Green Rescue Centre at Gilberdyke and all you could see in the background was boarded up shops.”

“well the chavs will be loaded, the single teen mums shoving items in there prams while the todler boyfriends in there addidas trackies go look for someing to nick too. I once heard someone actully say how much is this love pfff er it`s a pound the assistant smiled how thick are some people !!!!!!!!!!!!!. and only the other week their was a tv documentrey on poundland and some of there stock isnt as cheap as you would think”

“At the end of the day what is better,to see a shop doing business and employing somebody or to see it boarded up and defaced by some cretin.”

“Zola still not answered the question, you would make a good politician.

Funny that I am not labour supporter, nor am I on dole and nor do I drink cans in town centre and shuffle about in a shell suit. I work hard, in fact I employ 8 people locally and I am not in receipt of benefits.

A city full of scum? Yet you will crawl into Hull take a wage and crawl back out whilst critiquing those who your employer serves and earns a living from?

I am not scum and nor are my family and friends. I was born on Bransholme, does that make me any lesser than you? I think not. Nor am I better than you.

Just because I support a shop irrespective of the brand opening up in hull and creating 25 jobs I have been branded 'insane' and without 'aspiration'.

If you look at the shoppers in York, Leeds or Manchester, I think you fill find that there is a low percentage of International visitors who are coming for the sole purpose of shopping.

So hookbeak you are wasting your breath and I am wasting my time :)”

“Also, when I say visitors coming to Hull I don't just mean UK visitors but foreign visitors from Europe, North America and the Far East, you'll find Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool attracting visitors from those places and they don't just bring economic benefits with them but social benefits, they don't come to Hull though and to be honest who can blame them judging by the mentality of some of the posters on here.”

“Regardless of what the shop looks like from the train station or the 25 jobs created (hopefully fully paid and not JobCentre plus scheme/lose your benefit jobs or from other existing stores) shopping will always be a mix of necessity and lifestyle choice. I like a bargain as much as the next person but I also like to wear good quality clothes and shoes. Bit by bit Hull has been stripped of any premium quality clothes retailers, House of Fraser is a shadow of the store it once was.

Yes we are in a recession and there are a lot of unemployed people in Hull, but maybe the people who set the rents and rates might want to try joining the scrum to get a seat on a train to Leeds on a Saturday morning to see where Hulls spare cash is going. Book in advance and the train ticket is almost the same as an all day parking ticket. Maybe the council should also look at the parking rates.

Hulls new found bargain basement shops are clearly First Trains and Leeds gain for the lifestyle shoppers.”

“Your 'facts' are opinion based and I cant see sustainability in your utopian shopping mall and if it did exist it would make as much economic impact locally as poundland - prove me wrong.

"An £800 handbag bought at House of Fraser is worse for our economy than an £8 replica at Primark. All profits are with the company and shareholders which have nothing to do with Hull other than the staff they employ - probably on minimum wage and the shopper has less to spend on entertainment and other items locally."

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This is 100% wrong, in every respect. I can't really emphasise just how wrong you are. It's not just my opinion i'm giving here either. Your point goes against just about every fact known about retail on the entire planet. Your reasoning is just shy of utterly insane.

Unfortunately, the only way to prove that having high class shops in Hull would be good for it's economy is to have them here - and as there's no business because no one comes from out of town to shop here - they won't come here. I could point to all the cities that do have a mix of these shops, and are in a much more economically favourable position than Hull, but i get the impression you'd think that was my "opinion" too. So why bother?”

“Too much Labour mentality idiots on here. We need class, we need snobs, we need rich people spending money not clearing off to Leeds or York on a weekend. Shell-suited chavs shuffling around pound shops don't do anything for the city. Jealousy is a terrible thing. I have to work in the city and i hate it, so much scum everywhere you look. smoking shell-bottomed halfwits staggering around with their cans of super. The pound shops need demolishing, probably with the customers still inside and dole-dossing scroungers shouldn't be allowed into the city centre.”

“A upmarket brand would attract visitors from outside Hull to come and spend money here! No one will come to Hull to spend money in a Poundland, thus as someone has already said the same money will just be sloshing around Hull”