Home Bargains major pricing change to 600 stores will be 'better for customers'The change will affect how price reductions are madeView Image Home Bargains is taking a modern approach to pricing (Image: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)Home Bargains has made a major change to its pricing strategy across at least 600 stores. The change sees the discount retailer move away from manual pricing markdowns and towards automated ones. Home Bargains says the change will be better for staff and customers. However this approach was both labour-intensive for colleagues and relied on limited data to guide pricing decisions, reports the Retail Times. ‌The new modern pricing method is based on data and will see automated pricing decisions instead.