A Wizarding 99cent /s/u/p/e/r/store? Help!

Rita Winston catlady at wicca.net
Sun Jun 10 16:39:19 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
 
> I think I know the sort of place you're thinking of.  It screams
> "cheap, cheap, cheap!" as you walk through the door, and you can 
> find great bargains there if you are prepared to risk bumping into 
> your neighbours also pretending not to be there?
> 
> Not so much a superstore (and we do have that sort of thing here),
> but, in London, we have a lot of small shops that sell "Everything 
> under a pound" or "Everything for 50p".     They stock the sort of
> thing I imagine Wal-mart might stock: a mixture of tea-towels, huge
> packs of plastic pegs, hideous china ornaments, cheap nail polish, 

Here those are called 99cent stores. People who shop in them aren't 
ashamed to be seen there, being proud either of their frugality or 
their funkiness.  





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