\n The discount retailer announced stores would be closed on Boxing Day, as part of a three-day shutdown around the festive period.\n<\/p>\n
\n Home Bargains will close more than 600 UK stores will be on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year\u2019s Day – that includes 33 Home Bargains branches across County Durham<\/a>, Darlington<\/a>, Teesside, Tyne and Wear<\/a> and Northumberland.\n<\/p>\n \n The closure means shoppers will not be able to visit Home Bargains on Boxing Day \u2014 traditionally one of the busiest shopping days of the year, when many high street and retail park stores begin their post-Christmas sales.\n<\/p>\n \n Home Bargains, founded in 1976, employs around 28,000 people and sells homeware, garden and outdoor goods, toys, food, branded products and seasonal items.\n<\/p>\n North East Home Bargains stores affected<\/p>\n Barnard Castle \u2013 Barnard Castle, Durham<\/p>\n Bishop Auckland \u2013 Bishop Auckland Retail Park<\/p>\n Blaydon-on-Tyne \u2013 The Precinct, Blaydon Shopping Centre<\/p>\n Cramlington \u2013 Brockwell Centre<\/p>\n Cramlington \u2013 Manor Walks<\/p>\n Consett \u2013 Victoria Street<\/p>\n Darlington \u2013 Darlington<\/p>\n Durham \u2013 Durham 3<\/p>\n Gateshead \u2013 High Street<\/p>\n Hartlepool \u2013 Middleton Grange Shopping Centre<\/p>\n Hartlepool \u2013 Teesbay Retail Park<\/p>\n Jarrow \u2013 Station Road<\/p>\n Killingworth \u2013 Killingworth Centre<\/p>\n Middlesbrough \u2013 Hill Street Shopping Centre<\/p>\n Middlesbrough \u2013 Middlesbrough 2<\/p>\n Middlesbrough \u2013 Parkway Shopping Centre, Coulby Newham<\/p>\n Morpeth \u2013 Stanley Terrace<\/p>\n Newcastle \u2013 Belvedere Retail Park<\/p>\n Newcastle \/ Byker \u2013 Newcastle Retail Park, Fossway<\/p>\n North Shields \u2013 Bedford Street<\/p>\n Redcar \u2013 Regent Walk<\/p>\n Seaham \u2013 Byron Place Shopping Centre<\/p>\n South Shields \u2013 Millbank Industrial Estate, Secretan Way<\/p>\n Spennymoor \u2013 Oxford Road<\/p>\n Stanley \u2013 Clifford Road<\/p>\n Stockton-on-Tees \u2013 Parkfield Road<\/p>\n Sunderland \u2013 Blandford Street<\/p>\n Sunderland \u2013 Trimdon Street<\/p>\n Thornaby \u2013 Pavilion Shopping Centre<\/p>\n Wallsend \u2013 Forum Shopping Centre, Segedunum Way<\/p>\n Whitley Bay \u2013 Park View Shopping Centre<\/p>\n Ashington \u2013 Portland Park<\/p>\n Berwick-upon-Tweed \u2013 Berwick Upon Tweed<\/p>\n \n Home Bargains has not yet confirmed its festive opening hours for Christmas Eve, December 27, New Year\u2019s Eve or January 2.\n<\/p>\n \n Customers planning a shop over the festive period are advised to check their local branch\u2019s hours before travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The discount retailer announced stores would be closed on Boxing Day, as part of a three-day shutdown around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}