B & Q

Made a stop at this Newry location on Monday and was happy enough with service and product.
This location is a small volume store and the aisles feel pretty cramped, especially as I’m used to American big box stores like Lowes or Home Depot. This Newry location off the Five Ways gets a lot of trade coming from/​to down South.
I was here to pick-​up a few different light bulbs my local Tesco’s was too useless to stock, as well as a combi drill and some purpose hooks and screws/​anchors.
I was able to find my way around fine, although some sections did not make a lot of sense in terms merchandising but at least the sections I was in were well zoned.
I was kinda disappointed with the poor availability of associates in the store. I barely noticed shop floor people in the store — the one random chap who seemed to be covering multiple depts was doing his best to help one customer after another, including me. He was trying to work power equipment but to his credit was very good about being patient in answering people’s questions and not letting it show we were keeping him back from whatever tasks hd had going on. He walked us around the shelves where I needed to grab the bits and pieces I was after and even got the saw in lumber going to trim down some board for us. Good man, ‘Aidy’! = polite, friendly customer service.
If it weren’t for the lack of adequate shop floor staff, I would’ve marked higher, and also for the fact that some basic items were priced oddly expensive for what they were i.e. ten sheets of one grade type of sandpaper for roughly £7−8 when ten sheets of various grade sandpaper can be found in Tesco for just under two quid?!
Anyway, happy enough to continue to visit this location out if I couldn’t be bothered to drive to the Sprucefield one instead.