bmstores.co.uk

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bmstores.co.uk

B&M | Discount Retail Store | Garden, Home, Toys & MoreOne of the UK's fastest-growing variety retailers, with over 3 million shoppers per week, B&M believes in selling Big Brands at sensational prices.

bmstores.co.uk

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Truth score

Truth score 89 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied

89/ 100

High truth signals

Top 10% of businesses we’ve checked

Business details

Category: Department store
Years in business: 48 years
Founded: 1978
Places to visit: 377 storesNottingham (7), Derby (6), London (6), Cardiff (5), Ipswich (3) and more
Sells: Physical goods
Sells to: The public
Kind of seller: Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade: Alcohol, tobacco or vaping
Domain age: 20 years
Address: The Vault Dakota Drive, Estuary Commerce Park, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 8RJ
Email address: customerservices@bmstores.co.uk
Phone number: +44 330 838 9000
Contact page: bmstores.co.uk/contact-formLinked from the site's own pages. We could not open it.
Website: bmstores.co.uk
Social media

Do the sources agree?

Address: The Vault Dakota Drive, Estuary Commerce Park, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 8RJ Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap not found Web Data Commons not found
Company name: B & M RETAIL LIMITED Companies House agrees Its website differs
Sources give different names · Its website has B&M Stores

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating

SmartCustomer· Read 11 November 2026· 4 reviews· 2.3 out of 5 stars

App Store· Read 11 November 2026· 83 ratings· 3.5 out of 5 stars

Total873.4 out of 5 stars

Also found onTrustpilot

Customer satisfactionMostly dissatisfiedFrom independent reviews, weighed by their number

Summary

Is bmstores.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 89 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 of 11 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: mostly dissatisfied.

bmstores.co.uk is run by B & M Retail Limited, an active UK company registered at Companies House 48 years ago, and was founded in 1978. Its website address was registered 20 years ago. It has a review page on Trustpilot. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 4 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.3 stars out of 5. We could not find an archive history for its website.

Positives

An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 48 years ago.
Its website address was registered 20 years ago.
It has a review page on Trustpilot.
The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Be cautious

A low number of independent reviews (4 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.3 stars out of 5.

Not found

Web history and authority information was not found from our checks.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

One of the UK's fastest-growing variety retailers, with over 3 million shoppers per week, B&M believes in selling Big Brands at sensational prices.

— B & M Retail Limited, in their own words

Where to find them

Places: 377 stores · busiest 12 of 213 towns below · 94 with no town given

Nottingham7
Derby6
London6
Cardiff5

Ipswich3
Leeds3
Walsall3
Glasgow3

Oldham3
Manchester3
Dundee3
Northampton3

SourcesOpenStreetMap Its homepage

Latest YouTube video

Correct as of 11 Nov 2026, 11:53

How to check if bmstores.co.uk is legit

To check if bmstores.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about bmstores.co.uk; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 48 years ago

Its registered office at Companies House is The Vault Dakota Drive, Estuary Commerce Park, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 8RJ
Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 28 March 2026
It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data

Country

Where the company is based: UK
Why we believe that: it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its legal pages give an address in England, its VAT number starts GB, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode
Which countries the company serves: UK
Why we believe that: its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage

Registration

Companies House registration: Registered as B & M RETAIL LIMITED
Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number ZA049538
VAT number: GB673583601

Companies House register

Company found in official company register: Yes
Registered company name: B & M RETAIL LIMITED
Company status: active
Company age: 48 years
Registered address: The Vault Dakota Drive, Estuary Commerce Park, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 8RJ
Accounts overdue: No
Confirmation statement overdue: No
Insolvency history: No
Registered office in dispute: No
Filing history consistent: Yes
ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes
Registered to do: 47190 Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
Previous names: B. & M. BARGAINS (W & R) LIMITED (31 Dec 1978 to 9 Jul 1997)
FAELEX LIMITED (14 Mar 1978 to 31 Dec 1978)
Company type: Private limited company

Size and borrowing

Accounts filed: Full accountsThe most detailed kind a company files.
Secured loans (charges): 0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.

From Wikipedia

Type (Wikipedia): société anonyme
Industry: retail
Founded: 1978

SourcesCompanies House Wikipedia ICO register entry

Domain registrationIts website address was registered 20 years ago

Domain age: 20 years

SourcesICANN Lookup

Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: about, returns, terms and privacy

Company contact email is available

HTTPS enabled: Yes
Contact phone number found: +44 330 838 9000
Contact page linked: Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode: 2
Hosting company: Amazon.com, Inc.

What its pages say

In their own words: “It has known security flaws and may not display all features of this and other websites. B&M was formed in 1978 and is now one of the leading variety retailers in the UK. From its first store in Blackpool, Lancashire, B&M has grown to over 700+ stores and employs over 35,000+ staff.”
How long you have to return: “If you are not happy with a purchase you make at one of our stores, simply return the product in its original condition with proof of purchase within 30 days and we’ll give you a full refund or replacement.”
Faulty or damaged items: “However, if the product is faulty, you may return it with your receipt within 30 days for an exchange of the same title”
Who you're buying from: “Our registered office is at The Vault, Dakota Drive, Estuary Commerce Park, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside L24 8RJ.”

SourcesHomepage About page Returns page Terms page Privacy page

Search engines and AIBlocks automated visitors: its bot protection turned us away

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All blocked

Google Search: Blocked by its bot protectionGooglebot
Bing: Blocked by its bot protectionBingbot

AI training

All blocked

OpenAI: Blocked by its bot protectionGPTBot
Anthropic: Blocked by its bot protectionClaudeBot
Google AI: Blocked by its bot protectionGoogle-Extended
Apple AI: Blocked by its bot protectionApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl: Blocked by its bot protectionCCBot
Meta: Blocked by its bot protectionmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its bot protectionBytespider

AI answers

All blocked

ChatGPT search: Blocked by its bot protectionOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT: Blocked by its bot protectionChatGPT-User
Claude search: Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-SearchBot
Claude: Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-User
Perplexity: Blocked by its bot protectionPerplexityBot

Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints87 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.3 to 3.5 out of 5

Platform	Rating	Reviews
Trustpilot	Unknown	Unknown
SmartCustomer	2.3 out of 5 stars	4
Total	3.4 out of 5 stars	87

App StoreIts app, B&M Stores, is on Apple's App Store, rated 3.5 out of 5 from 83 ratings, counted in the reviews total.

App: B&M Stores
App Store page: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/b-m-stores/id1259809378
App Store rating: 3.5 out of 5
App Store ratings: 83

Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months

Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
It is among the 200,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)

Monthly visitor data

Popularity among Chrome users: top 50,000 sites
First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24
Traffic pattern: sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months: none
Rank drop in the last 12 months: none

Cloudflare Radar

Popularity across the internet: top 200,000 sites

Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up bmstores.co.uk, by country, over the last 2 days.

Over 50%
5 to 50%
1 to 5%
0.2 to 1%
Under 0.2%
None seen

1United Kingdom24.3%
2United States17.1%
3Singapore10.0%
4Australia7.1%
5India4.3%
6Kuwait4.3%
7France4.3%
8Vietnam2.9%
9Brazil2.9%
10Bulgaria2.9%

Top 10 of 24 countries.

SourcesChrome UX Report Cloudflare Radar

Web history and authorityWe have checked it once, on 11 November 2026

Social presenceIt is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 2,000,000 followers on Instagram

Found	Platform	Audience
	Facebook	Unknown
	Instagram	2,000,000 followers
	X.com	Unknown
	LinkedIn	Unknown
	YouTube	125,000 subscribers
	TikTok	209,300 followers
		2,334,300 followers total

YouTube channel: 742 videos, 125,000 subscribers, last upload 14 Apr 2026

YouTube Data64,778 views a video, 10,001 views a day and a new video every 6.5 days

B&M Stores@bmstorestv

Views per video48,064,989 views ÷ 742 videos: 64,778
Views a day48,064,989 views ÷ 4,806 days: 10,001
Views per subscriber48,064,989 views ÷ 125,000 subscribers: 385
New subscribers a day125,000 subscribers ÷ 4,806 days: 26
Subscribers per 1,000 views125,000 subscribers ÷ 48,064,989 views × 1,000: 2.6
Subscribers per video125,000 subscribers ÷ 742 videos: 168
Days between videos4,806 days ÷ 742 videos: 6.5
Channel age14 September 2013 to 11 November 2026: 13 years 1 months

Subscribers: 125,000
Views: 48,064,989
Videos: 742
Started: 14 September 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Language: Not stated
Topics: Lifestyle, Hobby
Made for children: Not stated
Website in its description: Not stated
Trailer: No

SourcesIts YouTube channel YouTube Terms of ServiceRead 11 November 2026

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data

Says it does not sell your personal data.: “We do not sell, rent, loan, trade or otherwise disclose your personal information, except as described in this policy.”
May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.: “You should receive information about the processing of personal decision-making including profiling data.”

SourceIts privacy policy

Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Google Tag Manager: Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.

SourceIts homepage

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.

Malware or phishing threat status: None found

SourcesGoogle Web Risk

Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company

Known data breaches found: 0

SourcesHave I Been Pwned

Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam

MX records: Yes
SPF record: Yes
DKIM key: Yes
DMARC record: Yes
DMARC policy: quarantine

Certificate

Security certificate browsers warn about: No
Certificate issuer: Amazon
Certificate type: DV
Certificate expires: 7 Jan 2027

Hosting

Nameservers: ns0.ukfast.net
ns1.ukfast.net
Address: 99.83.177.244

SourcesIts DNS records

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible

What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points: 0 of 3 added

Sourcebmstores.co.uk's DNS records

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Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points: 0 of 1 added

SourceTruth Signal's own records

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Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible

What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points: 0 of 1 added

Sourcebmstores.co.uk/robots.txt

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Points added to its truth score0 of 5

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