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Inside bargain superstore hailed as B&M meets The Range that shoppers ‘didn’t know existed’
PACKED with bargain kitchenware, home essentials and garden furniture - Home Store + More is the ideal shop for all your wants and needs.
The bargain superstore, which is Ireland’s leading independent homeware retailer, has been hailed as B&M meets The Range and is full of incredible deals for your home.
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With only two stores in Scotland, one in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, and the other at Craigleith Retail Park, in Edinburgh, shoppers have said it's the hidden gem that they never realise existed.
Home Store + More is most famous for its incredible kitchenware, which is proudly named as Scotland's Best Choice.
And marketing director Matthias Wenk told the Scottish Sun: "We pride ourselves in having the best quality at great, bargain prices.
"There's nothing in here that we, and the staff, wouldn't buy, or have, themselves.
"And because the prices are so good and we have so many deals, then customers don't have that guilty feeling when they buy from us.
"And because it's something going towards your home as well, which is something you love and means a lot to them, you don't feel bad for buying it.
"In an average basket, there's at least one to three items from our special sales and deals in it."
And it's picked up the attention of Scots TikTok and Celebs Go Dating star Kerri Roma, who was spotted inside the East Kilbride store last week.
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The bright, colourful store has a very welcoming entrance and is jam-packed with a huge range of products that holds everything to help create ‘a happy home’.
The huge Scottish shop is deliberately designed in such a way that as you walk around, they are effectively entering a different room in the house.
Entering at the kitchen, they have a huge range of every possible item anyone could need - from utensils, pots and pans, dining sets, glasses and special touches to personalise any kitchen.
This then leads to the cleaning and laundry area where everything is out in the open to allow customers to see and feel anything they want to pick up.
Shoppers then head around to the bedroom section where the store even has its own bedding meticulously displayed on made up-beds for the full effect.
This is purposely done to let customers feel each of the fabrics, pillows, and duvets before buying them.
Home Store + More also has a huge department for everything any homeowner could need to personalise a living room or lounge.
They even have huge, super-wide and super-tall aisles with every size of picture frame and examples of how to style them in a home.
Or if you need a wall clock, canvas, print, or sign, there are plenty of options, too.
The bathroom department also has everything from toilet seats to towels, storage and decorative accessories.
Suzie Kennedy, the store's social media and PR executive for Scotland, told the Scottish Sun: "Our huge range of products means that anyone can completely renovate their bathroom for a fraction of the price.
"And we have everything we need to do that with main things like toilet seats to the smaller things that really make it personal to your home like the mats, mirrors, and holders for showers, caddies and bins."
The store also has a seasonal section which is currently full of garden essentials which perfectly finish off any home.
They currently have a half-price sale on all their wood-burning fire pits and pizza ovens which is available for a limited time only - when it’s gone, it’s gone!
East Kilbride store manager Jonny Gallagher told how everyone who enters the shop is greeted with a hello by all members of staff who are happy and keen to help.
He explained that customer service is their top priority - even above making sales.
He told the Scottish Sun: "Everyone who comes in is greeted with smiles and a hello and we treat customers here like they're our family.
"We want them to be happy and comfortable and feel welcome because that's what brings them back.
"And we're completely honest with them as well - like if we don't have something in stock that they're looking for but we know that Argos or B&M have it, or something similar, we'll tell them that, even if we know we'll have lost a sale.
"We won't have them put out and the customers like that and that's what brings them back here because they know we'll do everything we can to help."
Matthias added: "That's the kind of thing that brings people back to us and creates loyal customers.
"Our main priority is our customer service, not our sales."
Suzie told how the store are also doing as much as they can to help local causes.
As part of their corporate social responsibility efforts, the team support local East Kilbride charitable organisations, EKYC Girls football team, EKYC, EKYM and Encore Stars Academy.
They provide everything from kit sponsorship for the Girls Football Team to covering promotional printing costs, providing show props for Encore Stars Academy.
They even donating items from the store for raffles and events to help with organisations fundraising efforts. There are donation points at their till areas.
And they also provided EKYC/EKYM Kirktonholme Pavilion community café with new glassware, tableware, kitchen accessories, bathroom accessories are part of their upgrade efforts.
Previously we told how shoppers were stunned that they had never heard of it before, with some dubbing it the new B&M.
One said: "I never knew this existed omg. I’m getting straight in the car there hahaha."
A second wrote: "Move over B&M, am coming for you Home Store and More."
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A third added: "Why did I not know this place existed? Spend half my time in One Below, Home Bargains, B&M haha. New one to the list."
Meanwhile a fourth insisted: "Gonna take a trip up next week. Usually go to Home Bargains but getting bored of it."
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