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Face time: Poundland’s Barry Williams on trading on pandemic-hit high streets

By Grace Bowden2020-05-14T06:00:00+01:00

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Poundland managing director Barry Williams talks to Retail Week about the challenges of trading during the coronavirus pandemic, which has seen “10 years of consumer behaviour condensed into 10 weeks”.

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