There's one 5min from my house. I buy washing up liquid, washing liquid for clothes, bleach, deoderant, toothpaste, razors & bog rolls etc. Because it's half the price of the supermarket. I bought some towels in there about five years ago, they're still good, and heaven forbid I even fitted my kitchen blind up with screws and wall plugs bought from there. It's still up and my electric screwdriver didn't mince the screws.
B&M is surprisingly good. Before you get to the Chrome Painted Plastic Goods aisles they've got a pretty reasonable food section.
Never heard of them! England only?
Formerly Wilkinson's, if that helps any. They rebranded to the nickname that no-one had ever said. Or at least, the one near me did.
We don't have a Wilco's, but we do have a Quality Save, Tag line: putting the K back into Kwality..
Formerly Wilkinson’s, if that helps any. They rebranded to the nickname that no-one had ever said. Or at least, the one near me did.
In Derbyshire it's always been called Wilko's even when it was Wilkinsons!
There’s one 5min from my house. I buy washing up liquid, washing liquid for clothes, bleach, deoderant, toothpaste, razors & bog rolls etc. Because it’s half the price of the supermarket.
I don't know what brands you're buying but the stuff I buy is exactly the same price in Wilkos as in the supermarkets, and I'm not exactly buying top-end toiletries. Mitchum is £3 everywhere, as on Wilkos' website. (although I stock up when it's on 3 for 2, or reduced to £2 as it very often is in all the shops at the same time.) Toothpaste is the same price. A pack of 9 rolls of toilet roll is actually more expensive in Wilkos than Aldi, by £1.50, but quality may vary of course.
I'll miss Wilkos, their homebrewing kits got me into brewing.
I’d recommend trying The Range for your ‘everything you could possibly need and stuff you never thought of’ needs.
The Range in Reading is just the worst place imaginable though.
Like Homebase for having only a half selection of stock, but worse.
Narrow isles you can barely fit down, with added special offer obstacles.
The sort of crap that ends up in TKMaxx, if you want gold sequin cusions and gold sequin curtains knock yourself out, there's an upside down gilded pineapple lamp to match.
The stuff is just junk, my OH regularly comes back with stuff from there, like new curtains to replace the old ones. I swear curtains are never something I considered could wear out. If she announces she's going into town to shop at the Range my heart actually sinks, doubly so if she's accompanied by her mum/sister as the amount of tat purchased seems to be proportional to the square of the number of people in the group.
Like Homebase for having only a half selection of stock, but worse.
They can't be worse than B&Q for stock control?
If you do a 'click and collect' order from them its absolute pot luck whether it'll actually be in there once you've been informed your order is ready to collect.
My favourite, having driven there to collect an order of A3 picture frames (B&Q picture frames are also top quality), was "yeah, well we know we've got 150 of them in stock somewhere, a pallet full, but nobody knows where they actually are"
"But you sent me an email saying my order was ready to collect"
"Yeah, well it would have been if we could have found them. They're in the warehouse somewhere"
Right, I'm off to Wilko's to get the individual pie dishes I had been looking at before they close up forever.
Aren't you supposed to support your local independent picture framer?🙂
I know we don't feel guilty about that anymore - every single time we try the price is enormous and they instantly get defensive if you wince. And then alway some garbage about how it HAS to be glass and how plastic would double the price (even though I can buy a huge sheet of acrylic for less than they want for a tiny bit of glass).
Yes, been to The Range (not to Wilko's though to be honest) there is one a few minutes from where I work. Funnily enough I bought some acrylic paint for my daughter for her GCSE art project as it was the nearest shop. She is not fussy, really not but she said the paint wasn't very good. It wasn't the branded stuff though as that had run out, just some brand I'd never seen and yes it was cheap. And rubbish. As was everything else - special mention to the inflatable kayaks and garden furniture which looked like it would collapse under the weight of a person and dissolve in the rain - but hey a whole patio set for £99!
No tack though so no point in bringing my little pony but @binners they do bike stuff so assume thats why you were there?
Edit: Oh yes just remembered, also bought a folding washing up bowl there as well - yeah that lasted well, about a month I think before it split.
I worked 20 hours a week in Wilco in the Crossgates Arndale as it was in 6th form. I did the kitchen and garden. At the time they didn't have barcode scanning checkouts. So i'd count all the stock on the shop floor and warehouse and then the new stock would come in 2 days later and I'd put it out on the shop and then put the rest back in the warehouse but the system didn't work very well and we end up with tonnes of stock that we could sell when people counted wrong or missed something in the warehouse that you then could never shift,
Another Wilko fan here. It's the baby robins that may suffer because of this as they are my go-to place for bird seed, peanuts & fat balls ☹️
Be a shame , my go to shop for dawg poo bags, and a cheeky sample from the pik’n’mix.My local is always busy🤷🏼♂️
