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!

We buy their logs for our wood burning stove, obviously we would go to Waitrose if they sold them but clearly shouldn’t be darkening their door so will look elsewhere immediately….

I LOVE HOME BARGAINS!

Come on, “the great unwashed”? “Lose your sanity”? Lighten up.

There is no HB or B&M near me so I absolutely love going in one if I’m in another town. Love their pre-planted flower pots!
DD had an activity near one last year and it was such a treat for me to head over there and have a mooch while she was in her class 😂

Ooh I love Home Bargains! It's not all tat, I buy toiletries, loo roll and food there - they are also great for bedding, towels and kitchen equipment, stationery and gift bags etc. You do sounds a bit snobby to be honest 😂

Although I will say I went in on Monday forgetting it was half term and there were a lot of worn out mums in there with over-excited children looking at all the Halloween stuff and saying 'Can we get this?' while the poor mums were going 'No, put it back!' Felt sorry for them and relieved my children are all grown up now!

I’m sorry, what now? When did they start doing 89p jerky?! I’d best let myself get a bit smelly and head down there, stat! 🤣

I’ve been to a new The Ranch ? I think, that’s its name, and walked out, after queuing for 20 minutes, and then walked into the new Home Bargains superstore I guess, next door to it, with normal till systems.

As long as you are careful, some of the home bargains stock is good. Some is branded, you just have to be careful.

Some branded stock is poor, I’m thinking individual Christmas cake slices, which were dry and just nasty, with no fruit.

I have never shopped in pound ( or rubbish shops as they were known when I was little), although I have been in with my children, but much of it was inferior really, and broke straight away.

But there is nothing wrong with cheaper stores, you just need to be selective, and the better known stores have cheaper priced goods, to try and compete now.

I love Home Bargains. Meds, toiletries. Nice helpful staff. I like B & M too. And Dunelm. And John Lewis a couple of times a year. Variety rules.

As a member of the great unwashed, I think you mean working class and on a limited income and I qualify on one of those, I object to your remarks. Home Bargains is fine if you want what it sells. Lots of people shop there. I bought some perfectly good oil paints there a couple of months ago quite cheaply and they let me use their loo because I was desperate.
And one queue which debouches onto the next free till is a very efficient way of organising a queue. You get your turn based on when you entered the queue rather than on whether you get stuck behind someone paying with their phone which won't work or who has brought back something they want to change and also bought a whole load of shopping. I wish more places did it - my local Pets-at-Home does this too, btw, much quicker.

I live in an area with a MASSIVE Home Bargains and and even bigger B&M with a garden centre. Both of them have a normal queuing system but B&M in particular is very slow. I get pet food, instant coffee, fajita mix and Branson beans, paint/hardware and Mitchum deodorant at B&M and toiletries, pet stuff, garden stuff at Home Bargins. I go to Home bargains before Christmas for random sweets and face masks, lip balms etc for stockings. We don’t have a hardware store anymore so it’s good if you need pegs or shoe polish or a spade. I don’t mind if people talk in the aisles but it’s not something I’ve noticed tbh.

I find the staff there lovely, and no one is any ruder (in general) than at Tesco etc. When you look at old photos on socials, it's nice to think about independent stores where the staff chat with you about their home-made products, but quite honestly supermarkets/Home Bargains etc seem to be the only ones able to defy online shopping (and the extortionate parking fees councils charge).

I am a regular Waitrose shopper and I LOVE home bargains.
i always buy 5kg bags of Epsom salts
I stock up with 500 airfyer liners at a time so rarely need to scrub my airfyer.
cooks matches
compost
Lyon’s ground coffee
Tunnocka tea cakes
chocolate biscuits
Vitamin B12 spray
Viramin D spray
potassium spray
and their mashed carrot and swede is great but it often sells out.
Get a life OP.

You should be pleased. It’s keeping the riff-raff out of Waitrose.

Before you look down your nose at a particular societal demographic, use a damn spellchecker.

What a truly horrible post.

Ours is lovely , has a big food section and a garden centre but the B&M is dreadful so DH goes there for his coffee syrups

Do you park on Waitrose then cross the road with your sunglasses on, collar turned up and your Waitrose bags in your pocket?

Never been and hopefully never will.

How did you know, are you watching me? 😂

Get reduced bread we like @ w’rose & their b beans!, buuut, have to go to Home B’s for the £3 cheaper per pack of the only cat food our kitty eats (& always used to have cheapest butter until recently 🫤).

😂🤗

Ooooo HomeBargains, where you can get pissed for a fiver on a Tuesday night. I’ll happily “loose” my sanity for a cheap bottle of Kylie rose and a box of mint Matchmakers.

What a snotty bitch you are!

What a snotty bitch you are!