Home bargains hell.

[ilovepixie]

Just visited Home Bargains for the first time. What a horrible shop. Full of the great unwashed and plastic tat! People standing around talking, you can’t get past them. The queuing system is mad! Everyone stands up one aisle and then goes to a till when it’s free. What wrong with queuing normally behind each individual till.
You may save a few pence but you’ll loose your sanity!

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Stick to Waitrose my love. Wouldn't want you to get a fit of the vapours because a chav breathed on you. You might catch the pov.

'What wrong with queuing normally behind each individual till.'

Where were you educated, OP?

Are you sure you are not thinking about B & M. Home Bargains is usually lovely and spacious and well laid out compared to B & M.

But as regards to your horrible comment about the great unwashed. I know millionaires who shop there. I love them myself too. Yes there is some tat, but it's the best place for household items and toiletries by a mile.

I hate it too OP. Our local one is smelly and depressing. I’ve been a couple of times around 3 years ago and couldn’t understand the hype.

My local Homebase has just reopened as The Range. I’ve never been to one. Is it like HB??

I don’t normally pick posters up on spelling but in your case I will. The great unwashed will probably be able to use “loose” and “lose” correctly.

Our local one is lovely,I'm in a wheelchair now and when I go with my DH the staff have all been lovely and really helpful they always find a trolley for me to attach to my wheelchair and tell us to let them know if we need help with anything else.

As for the customers their all walks of life so maybe it does depend where the store is.

I think you obviously live in a very rough area OP. I have a few home bargains close to where I live and none of them are the way you describe. Have you considered moving to a better area, if you can afford it, where there are more people who wash??

I think one queue makes much more sense as you don't get the misfortune if being stuck behind the person with a problem.

They sell birdfood? Wild bird food? Fantastic, I've just literally moved in close to one, I'll be paying it a visit, ta! 🐦‍⬛🐦🐦‍⬛🐦🐦‍⬛

Ah shit 😂

In my defence, the op brought to mind the B&M that’s just around the corner from me.

Our Home Bargains is in a much nicer part of town and isn’t quite as bad.

So don't go back 🙄🙄 I'll just get back to my real life now....

No Home Bargains or The Range here but at B&M, Lidl and Aldi the customers are the same as Sainsburys and Tesco. As far as Waitrose goes we have 2 here - superstore and Little - the superstore has a fairly posh customer base but the Little Waitrose is very urban and has homeless people asking for coffee. It doesn't bother me and it doesn't seem to bother the staff either.

Regarding Middle of Lidl - excellent bargain last Friday. Lovely stainless steel based cook pan/stove top casserole. I would say that there are often a lot of very middle class people in Lidl and Aldi. It's seriously only snobs that are the least bit bothered.

Brilliant answer.

At least spell properly if you are going to refer to folk as 'the great unwashed'.

I think MN HQ probably posted this just to spice things up a bit haha

So the queueing, is it one long snake like Primark and TKMaxx? I think that's the best really, coz as soon as there's a cashier free the queue goes down, it's always seemed a great system to me.
You don't have to pick a queue and stand in it thoroughly embittered as you watch another queue move like greased lightning.
The larger Post Offices use it. Not that that means anything now, not since the Scandal (deliberate capitalisation before anyone says anything).
Best of all you get to listen to "Cashier number FIVE, please!" in exactly the same singsong tones everywhere. Which I inexplicably love. 😂

I go to home bargains religiously. Please never go back, the queues are long enough as it is :)

This.
We go to a big Home Bargains and don't queue like that. There is plastic tat as there is in any shop that's not specifically upmarket.
They have a very nice and cheap cafe too, perfect for us unwashed folk. We buy the shower gel on the way out.

Did somebody make you go in there? They should have a sign on the door saying if you’re a snob & not bothered about saving money don’t bother coming in. Get down off your high horse and shop at Waitrose or Booths if up north. Then you won’t have to look down your nose at the dregs of society.

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Lying in bed knackered feeling very woken up by this discussion god help me! 🤣

Oh dear, stick to Waitrose my love - someone might see you in home bargains and associate you with the unwashed working classes!!

I think that’s an unfair view after one experience and it’s horrible to call people the great unwashed. Most of the ones I have shopped in have been clean, tidy and well functioning.

The Range can be quite expensive for some things

Home Bargains may not float your boat, but it’s owned by Tom Morris, a third generation Liverpool shopkeeper- they recently donated £2.5m to keep Zoe’s Place, a baby hospice in Merseyside, open when it was due to close.

there are many worse places than HB