Pound shop == dollar store

I suppose I should've figured that one out.

Pound being a verb rather than a noun in much of the English speaking world is a reasonable excuse for not seeing that meaning instantly

Its because we have the metric system over here

Americans manage a further level of confusion by referring to the "pound sign" as #, rather than £, which isn't in US-ASCII nor on the US-102 keyboard layout.

You have to go to Amsterdam for the hash shop