Bah, humbug! Christmas comes too early for north Wales shoppers

Home Bargains’ store manager says offering Christmas lines early helps shoppers to budget but it brought the Scrooge out in locals. Photograph: Keenretail/Alamy

It may not have been the sunniest of Augusts but a store in north Wales has been accused of giving up on summer way too early after it filled shelves with Christmas stock.

A section of the Home Bargains store in Denbigh is awash with festive offerings, from Grinch stockings to gold baubles, from strings of tinsel to plastic wreathes, sparkly reindeers and worker elves’ hats.