Home Bargains news and analysis
Home Bargains a variety discount retailer with more than 600 stores nationwide. It offers a wide range of groceries, homeware, health and beauty products, and toys. The Grocer covers Home Bargains with news, analysis, insight and opinion.
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NewsHome Bargains moves to automated markdowns
The variety discounter has moved from handwritten price labels to a ‘data-driven markdown solution that automates pricing decisions’
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NewsHome Bargains automated DC picking two million cases a week
The variety discounter is also working on its next new automated DC, to open in Doncaster in summer 2028
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Comment & OpinionToday’s variety discount shopper wants more than low prices
Low prices may have been the original draw but they’re no longer the path to success for variety discounters, says Michela Pearson, insight analyst at IGD
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Analysis & FeaturesAre retailers’ ‘big brother tactics’ a step too far?
As rates of retail crime continue to rise and police fail to respond, retailers are turning to facial recognition technology
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NewsHome Bargains opens ‘most sophisticated automated warehouse in the country’
The variety discounter has officially opened its new one million sq ft warehouse at Omega Business Park in St Helens, after three years of construction
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Analysis & FeaturesHow Home Bargains is proving king of the variety discounters
Home Bargains has become something of an anomaly in a variety discount sector where rivals are suffering. So what is it doing better?
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Analysis & FeaturesDubai chocolate: how it started, and how retailers and brands have fanned the flames
Demand is so high that Waitrose and Lidl have imposed a two-bar limit on transactions to manage stock levels
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NewsHome Bargains tackling theft with AI cameras that spot unscanned items at checkouts
Home Bargains is working with loss-prevention tech firms SAI and Everseen in two store trials
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NewsHome Bargains starts construction on new ‘highly automated’ Doncaster DC
Home Bargains’ new DC will supply more than 300 stores by the middle of 2028
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Comment & OpinionThe wheels have fallen off B&M’s retail wagon – can it get back on track?
City patience is running out with B&M after it issued its second profits warning so far this year on Monday, at the same time CEO Alex Russo ‘fell on his sword’
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Comment & OpinionLidl has come out punching in 2025. What is making it so confident?
Lidl has come out swinging in 2025, with a price comparison campaign targeting an array of rivals
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NewsHome Bargains’ turnover and profits soar as store estate grows
The retailer opened 31 new stores in 2024 and is set to launch a ‘highy automated’ new one million sq ft distribution centre in spring
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NewsMedia Bites 14 October: Waitrose’s James Bailey, Home Bargains, Energy bills and farming
Waitrose executive director James Bailey traces his love for the upmarket retailer back to his mum taking him to the Eastbourne branch as a six-year-old
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Analysis & FeaturesAs inflation recedes, has the tide turned on discounter growth?
New figures show Aldi is now in negative growth, and variety discounters that once were riding high are also going backwards
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NewsAsda pulls plug on Home Bargains price match campaign
Asda has paused the price match mechanic while it looks at the performance of the lines included and the proposition as a whole
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NewsHome Bargains offering £500 reward for help in catching shoplifters
Shoppers can get the reward by calling the variety discounter’s confidential hotline with information leading to the ‘arrest and successful prosecution of anyone committing a criminal offence in our stores’
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NewsHome Bargains launches buyer apprenticeship programme
Successful applicants will be mentored by a category manager and work alongside senior buyers at the retailer’s head office in Liverpool
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Comment & OpinionTesco boss continues to make strides against Aldi’s price challenge
Tesco boss Ken Murphy didn’t play ball when asked about Tesco versus Aldi price gap
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Analysis & FeaturesEight ways retail sector will change, according to the RSC
From discounter proliferation to online failures and less tax for the Treasury, how the Retail Sector Council sees the industry’s near future
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Analysis & FeaturesHow ‘loved’ high street discount retailer Wilko came to trouble
Wilko is in a struggle for survival, having last week filed a notice of intention to appointment administrators