New Home Bargains store opens in Newport to huge crowds
The one-stop shop, which is a family favourite, invested around £6 million into the new store on Docks Way, which opened at 8am on Saturday.
We were there a hundreds of people queued for hours to get into the store with the car park full.
Even though the store had opened at 8am, by the time we arrived at around lunchtime, cars were backed out onto the main road in a queue to get into the car park - we even ended up waiting around 20 minutes for a space, and it was very much one in, one out in the car parking spaces.
Once inside, it was almost like being in a sardine tin, with shoppers lining each the aisles offering everything from garden furniture, to Father's Day gifts to popular everyday cupboard fillers including biscuits, milk and cereal.
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Home Bargains very much feels like an expanded supermarket, with a variety of items on sale that you perhaps wouldn't expect to see in a supermarket, including bedding, candles, toiletries such as make-up, and even barbecues.
One of the biggest selling points of the new store was the 'Garden World' section, set at the far side of the store in a greenhouse and giving a varied selection of plants and gardening equipment that could rival even Homebase or Webbs.
The other major key selling point was the café, and given how busy the shop was, we didn't stop, but it was clear why the café was so popular on what was a very warm spring weekend. Most items were on the menu for less than £2, encouraging many to stop to refuel or refresh during their shop, something that many did given the length of the queues for the tills.
The smell of freshly baked cakes and coffee could be smelt from halfway down the aisle approaching the café, with many people taking the opportunity to be encouraged to take a break.
In fact the queues for the tills reached right down the shop aisles, with people filling their trolleys to the brim with all the 'special buys' and cheap home essentials on offer.
Most people simply could not get up to the tills given the size of the queues and were simply forced to wait in their aisles to pay for their shopping - with queues reaching a minimum of at least half an aisle back on multiple occasions.
We were inside for only around an hour, and it quickly became apparent that what seemed like all of Newport had turned out to visit the new store, as just as quickly as we left, another hoard of customers went inside, and the car park never seemed to empty.
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The shop has the usual shopping choices of branded goods at affordable prices, but this store also has an in-store bakery, café, and garden centre.
The bakery could rival Lidl, with offers of fresh bread, cookies, pastries and more on offer each day.
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The branch's new store manager, Luke Price, said: "I hope it will be at the heart of the community, a place for all to visit and have a great experience.
"With a fresh new bakery, a fantastic garden centre offering everything you need, and a place to refresh in our café, it truly is a one-stop shop for all."
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