A B&M shopper has revealed an amazing collection of Christmas presents and wrapping paper they’ve scooped for just £6.
All together, the haul should have cost £51.50 at full price, but items were slashed to rock bottom prices at the customer’s local store.
Ineta Ateni posted her bargains to the B&M Scanners and Other Bargains Group.
These included a festive sticker book, gift boxes, wrapping paper and a ribbon and bow set.
Prices were slashed as part of a massive clearance of last year’s stock, with some bargains costing as little as 10p.
Her haul on show included:
- Large Gift Box : 25p down from £3
- Santa Gift Box : 25p down from £3
- 3 x 2m Boucle Ribbon : 10p down from £2
- 21 piece Ribbon and Bow set: 15p down from £2
- Christmas notepad: 10p down from £1
- Christmas Melatllic Wall Sticker : 10p down from £2.50
- 2 folding Christmas Gift Boxes : 25p down from £2.50
- 2 Christmas Stockings: £2.25
Her post was liked by 15 shoppers.
The best way of finding clearance items at B&M is using the barcode scanner.
You can use the scanner to check if an item’s price is lower than the label.
You can download the app for free from the App Store or Google Play, includes a “scan” button at the bottom of the homepage.
Customers can also point there phone’s camera at an item’s bar code, and the app will automatically bring up the price.
If a price hasn’t been updated on the shelf, the app will tell you.
You can find your local B&M store by going to the B&M website and using the Store Finder search bar tool.
Then type in your postcode and it will give you the nearest one located to you.
The company has over 650 stores across the UK.
How else to save money at B&M
The retailer is renowned for its cheap deals and an ex B&M manager previously said the best time to find heavy markdowns is around 10am on a Wednesday, when staff cut prices to clear shelves for new stock.
Shoppers also use Facebook groups like B&M Bargains, Extreme Money Saving Deals and More and Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Group.
Meanwhile, B&M regular Sam Penney has shared six rules she follows to find bargains.
The full-time mum-of-two visits her local B&M stores every couple of days and runs the Facebook group B&M Scanner And Other Bargains.
She started the group in 2019 to share tips on spotting deals.
It has since grown to 328,000 members, who post about the bargains they’ve found in stores.
One of her key tips involves using the B&M scanner feature.
Sam will always scan the last items left on the shelves, because if its the last one, they often discount the price.
Similarly, she always recommends scanning items that have different packaging and items that have red and white stickers on them.
Some of her best bargain buys include snapping up a £40 labelled rug for just 10p and a pair of headphones for 10p.
Other stores offering Christmas bargains
B&M isn’t the only store selling festive stocking fillers and wrapping paper for a fraction of the price.
Fellow retailer Home Bargains is also selling heavily discounted items that are perfect for Christmas.
Shoppers can get there hands on five meters of Christmas wrapping paper for just 99p.
While they can also enjoy a McVities Family Biscuit selection for just £2.49.
Morrison’s have slashed there prices by up to 50 per cent on brands including Lego and Barbie.
The half-price sale rungs until October 26 and is aimed at helping parents spread the cost of Christmas.
Fellow supermarket Asda have a range of amazing deals across there supermarkets.
Customers have raved about Fredos scanning for just 12p and Dairy Milk for 87p, down from £1.74.
You can find your nearest branch by visiting /storelocator.asda.com.
Elsewhere, Aldi has slashed the price of Quality Street tubs to just £4.39, making it one of the cheapest on the market.
How to compare prices to get the best deal
JUST because something is on offer, or is part of a sale, it doesn’t mean it’s always a good deal.
There are plenty of comparison websites out there that’ll check prices for you – so don’t be left paying more than you have to.
Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers.
Here are some that we recommend:
- Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results.
- Price Spy logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and the supermarkets. Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock.
- Idealo is another website that lets you compare prices between retailers. All shoppers need to do is search for the item they need and the website will rank them from the cheapest to the most expensive one.
- CamelCamelCamel only works on goods being sold on Amazon. To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of.
