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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I sometimes start one of those queues at a cashpoint. If you get three ATMs together you can hover at a respectful distance sort of behind the middle one but not quite. Before you know it there's a queue of 3 or 4 people behind you; everyone gets to the front quickly and fairly whilst avoiding the person who's checking their balance and using three different cards.

The Home Bargains near me isn't like that. It's a great place for inexpensive toiletries, bird food and kitchenware. I've also never seen anyone in there like you, looking down on everyone else and sneering.

I dislike home bargains and I am working class🤷‍♀️ something about it leaves me feeling very...flat!
It is weird because I love a good mooch around b&m/the range.
TJ Hughes stores are next level though - I never go in them anymore, they are oppressive.

Not in Home Bargains.

Where did she say anything about the customers in the original post, except they queue badly? Don't straw man.

Home bargains is great, cheapest place
to buy a lot of things. £1.89 to buy a pack of wood shavings for pets for example. Next door in Pets at Home they charge about £6 for the same size. £2.99 for a pack of nine Nicky toilet rolls. The exact same product is £4.25 in Asda.

Apparently their business model is to buy stock at the same price as other stores do, but then sell it at lower prices.A low margin, high volume business.

It obvisously works because my local Home Bargains is always packed. 3 or 4 tills open and queues 2 or 3 deep for each till. Meanwhile my local B&M is always dead. One till open and no queue for it normally.

God, grow up. She's allowed to not like a store. You are projecting some weird shit onto what she's actually said. The lack of comprehension and wilful misinterpretation on here seems to be a point of pride for posters these days.

You can bring up a pet from kitten/puppyhood on Home Bargains alone.
Same as with B&M though, stock up for the next 6 months because favourite treats can be out of stuck for that length of time 😂

I can’t stand home bargains, B&M or The Range. It’s just tacky ‘live laugh love’ hell.

It is everything that’s wrong with capitalism, and if you start to walk around and think about what items will still be on this planet when your great great grandchildren die, you’ll start to realise how absurd and unnecessary a lot of the stock is. But there are separate queues for each till in my local Home Bargains,

Sounds good, I don't think they had that one in our Lidl, but they had excellent coffee grinders for a tenner and storage tubs/cupboard tidies a bit like Lakeland stuff

I like HB, even though I don't buy much there. Best things:

• the small 35p packets of peanuts. Just right for a portion and great for a snack because you're not reaching for chocolate or cake
• the £1.50 big bags of Epsom salts for baths. Half the price of anywhere else
• the fridge organisers (like tupperware but with removable containers) for £1.99. I've seen the same ones elsewhere for a fiver
• They used to sell the massive Persil washing powder boxes for £6. Sadly that stopped 3 years ago

She talked about 'the great unwashed'. My comprehension skills are excellent and it's clear that she was being a snob. I suggest you re-read the OP.

More for us, more fool you.

If you want to buy the exact same products for a higher price elsewhere, that’s up to you.

I feel for you.
They are the only place I know that still sells Victory Vs though.

Agreed. OP also said in a later post that her comments were “slightly in cheek”. Which was obvious.

To be honest, it's not really peak mumsnet these days- that would be the race to virtue signal in the strongest terms.

This is old school snobbery- at least you know where you're at with that
(though she loses most of MN with "loose" anyway).

Yep. I did about a third of my Christmas present shopping in there a few days ago!

😬

Discount places (home bargains, Aldi, Lidl etc) keep prices down by employing less staff to work the tills. I don’t know where you live btw, it sounds like it’s pretty scummy if the shops allow people in who don’t wash 🙃

I wanted some turmeric and black pepper capsules. In Holland & Barrett, the same strength was £17.25 for 90 capsules. I got 180 capsules in Home Bargains for less than £5.

Not obvious at all, judging by the majority of the comments.

I am sad that there isn't a Home Bargains close to me, we have B and M bargains and The Range so not totally deprived.

I which case why use provocative term such as, "great unwashed".
Admit it, you cocked up and are now back-peddling hard.