Homebase Prices

OTOH they were easlily the cheapest source I could find for Stanley type sliding wardrobe doors and runners last year (admittedly during a sale)

Homebase is only a 10 minute walk from home for me. It's next to Sainsbury's. (When did they split?)

They've been here probably for the best part of 10 years, but I've never seen the place overly crowded. The staff always seem to outnumber the customers.

Red Millibland has his eye on you

Milliband should have his eye on Homebase - I undercut them by 20%.

Looks like they're using the Waitrose retail model.

Except Waitrose sells decent stuff.

Not in my experience. The same stuff as everybody else but at inflated prices. I was in the other day to pick up a John Lewis order and Waitrose's special offer prices were still above everybody else's regular prices.

I found Waitrose's fresh food better than the other supermarkets'. However, even with my wife's staff discount, we rarely shopped there because of the prices. We only shop there now when in a hurry since it is less crowded and the queues are shorter.

If you are talking branded goods, yes, if you are talking meat and vegetables yes, but if you are talking waitrose own brand items I find they are very good value for money.

And at least as SWMBO remarked, if you are in Waitrose in e vegetable sections and ask an attendant 'have you got any squashes' they don't mumble 'soft drinks are over there, madam'.