People up and down the country are preparing for a road trip after discovering the location of the UK’s biggest B&M store that’s larger than a football pitch.
Hollie Stubbings, 29, from Brighton, shared a short video on TikTok with her 139,000 followers telling them this was their sign to go and visit the humongous 79,000 sq. ft mega shop.
Located in Bournemouth, it is packed full of everything a bargain-hunting-shopper could ever want.
The shop, which was crowned ‘the best B&M’ in the country in 2022 by the chain, employs over 90 staff – three times as many as the average store.
Unsurprisingly Hollie’s video attracted quite a bit of attention, being viewed almost a million times and gaining over 50,000 comments.
Hollie Stubbings, 29, from Brighton, shared a short video on TikTok with her 139,000 followers telling them this was their sign to go and visit the humongous 79,000 sq. ft mega shop
Her followers quickly went wild, with many suggesting they were keen to visit the mega store (pictured left and right)
Many rushed to write they would be heading there straight away and tag their friends and other halves to organise.
One commented: ‘Actual idea of heaven!’
Another wrote: ‘THIS IS A DREAM.’
A third added: ‘We need to go when we go Bournemouth!’
‘I need that in my life,’ another commented.
Another excited shopper commented: ‘We’d have a field day in here.’
Speaking to FEMAIL, Hollie explained she took her boyfriend on the trip, which was actually the first she had been after spotting it herself on TikTok.
She said: ‘I saw a TikTok on it and as we visit Bournemouth every year at Christmas, we had to go.
‘It’s amazing, so much there and plenty of bargains. I just loved how much there was, you could definitely spend a long time in there.
‘Unfortunately we were on a time limit so didn’t get to look around as in depth as I would have liked.
‘All the staff are lovely there too. Very helpful.’
Many rushed to write they would be heading there straight away and tag their friends and other halves to organise
It is the only B&M in the entire country that stocks every single line the brand offers, meaning there are 19,000 different names all in one place.
And there’s plenty of space to fit all those products. Considering a standard-size football pitch is 64,000 sq. ft, one could comfortably inside the shop with plenty of room to spare.
Last month, shoppers were left wowed as they finally learned what the store name B&M actually stands for.
It’s been such a mystery that even the billionaire boss Simon Arora once admitted that he did not know what ‘B&M’ stands for.
In an interview with the McKinsey Alumni Center, he revealed: ‘Someone once told told me that it was obvious – it stands for ‘Bargains and More’.’
However in fact, B&M stands for Billington & Mayman – after it’s founder Malcolm Billington.
B&M sells a huge range of items for the home – from furniture to electricals and stationery to cleaning products – and tries to lure in shoppers with big discounts on popular items.
B&M was founded in 1978 by Malcolm Billington as Billington & Mayman.
The chain, which has a massive presence in the north, sells well-known brands like Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola and Heinz at a discount. It also sells a wide range of budget home and garden products.
The company was bought in 2004 by Cambridge law graduate Simon Arora, and his two brothers, who turned the small loss-making chain into a £5billion giant with 1,000 stores.
The family has also offloaded £910million of shares since they took the company public in 2014.
In 2018, B&M chief executive Mr Arora said it wanted to replicate Aldi and Lidl’s success in the non-food sector: ‘We want to be to homeware, DIY, toys and stationery what Aldi and Lidl have been to the grocery sector,’ he said.
He said that shoppers in the south east were more likely to splash out on a £100 patio set compared to a cheap tube of toothpaste or box of cornflakes.
‘Our stores in the South East are actually more profitable on average than the rest of the country,’ he said.
