{"id":549718,"date":"2025-11-05T02:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549718\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:10:13","slug":"home-bargains-explains-15p-rule-for-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/549718\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Bargains explains 15p rule for shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The discount retailer has more than 600 stores across the UK\"HomeHome Bargains fans may have to pay extra at the till(Image: Peter Dazeley\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Home Bargains has explained a 15p policy that affects many customers. The retailer, which originated in Liverpool, ranks as one of the country’s most rapidly expanding brands.<\/p>\n

Employing more than 28,500 staff across over 600 UK stores, the business stands as Britain’s largest independent grocer. Tom Morris launched the first shop in 1976, originally named Home and Bargain, and the firm has since grown into a nationwide retailer.<\/p>\n

Its branches are renowned for their affordable homeware, groceries, beauty products and toys. And customers at Home Bargains who want their items bagged must pay 15p for the service.<\/p>\n

On its website, Home Bargains clarifies why it implements this 15p charge for plastic bags, and claims it offers “the cheapest” reusable bag in the UK. The statement reads: “As a company, we have decided to only sell reusable carrier bags at 15p (40p in Northern Ireland), as we believe that this is the cheapest and most cost-effective reusable carrier bag on the high street.<\/p>\n

“This will not only benefit the environment but also our customers. We also encourage customers to bring their own reusable bag with them when they visit.”<\/p>\n

Throughout England, a minimum 10p charge is applied to all single-use plastic bags, irrespective of retailer size. There are, though, exceptions for particular items, such as bags holding raw meat or fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The discount retailer has more than 600 stores across the UKHome Bargains fans may have to pay extra…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,42531,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-549718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-home-bargains","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115494664580523836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}