People are just realising what the red star stickers mean on Home Bargains price tags, and it’s blowing their minds
HAVE you ever been shopping at Home Bargains and wondered why there are red stars on some price tags and not others?
Well, one man has, and took to the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK group on Facebook to ask if anyone knew what the stars indicate.
“Just a quick question does anybody know what these red star stickers are for?” Jake wrote.
“I was thinking special offer or managers special but the items I have seen them on haven’t changed in price.”
People were quick to comment on the post, with many remarks coming from those who work at Home Bargains.
“It’s a product we will always stock,” one wrote.
“It’s mainly for staff so if we don’t have any in to leave the price there and leave the shelf space as it should come back in on the next delivery if we sell out.”
“Top 75 best sellers in the company, in theory we should never run out of these items,” another added.
“I work at Home Bargains and it’s stock that we should always have in,” a third commented.
“It’s the 75 products that they think people buy the most.
“However the red stars are more for staff so we know the space needs leaving empty if we don’t have any in for when we do.”
As someone else agreed, writing: “It’s to mark products that will always be in stock, it’s so that staff know they will always need the space for that product as it should not stay empty for more than a day.”
But others were more concerned about the fact that the kiln-dried logs in the picture, which were priced up at £6.49, were so much more expensive than they had been a while ago.
“They are greedy – used to be £3.99 beginning of last year,” one wrote.
As another added: “That bag of logs was £3.99 before November last year.
“Not paying £6.49 for them now.”
“God, I remember when they were £4 a bag – that was only last year,” a third commented.