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Argos - UK's Largest Catalogue Merchant
Argos is the largest general goods retailer in the UK – it has over 750 stores around the country. It sells goods as a catalogue merchant – if you go to the store you enter a catalogue number on a slip of paper, check it's available, then wait for the item to be brought to you from the warehouse.
They also have a pretty good online store – where you can buy and have stuff delivered to your home (usually extra charge) or just order for pick up at your nearest store. They have customer reviews online and they keep both positive and negative comments – so you get a fair idea of what you are buying.
Argos has been in the UK since 1973 and is one of the main discount retailers. It sell branded goods, own brand goods from cheap and cheerful to mid range / good quality. Their twice a year telephone directory sized catalogues must use up half of Scandinavia's forest land to produce.
I use the website to check prices against other suppliers. Sometimes it is surprisingly competitive, and if you know what you are after it is often the best place to go.
In the last year I've bought a camera, a barbecue and some self assembly furniture from them. Very efficient, good prices and I am quite happy.
I'm not sure I'd buy their cheaper own brand electronics stuff but then 'ye pays yer money and takes yer chance…' If you want a fancy radio for half the price of another main brand – it might not be as good. Caveat emptor – let the buyer beware.
www.Argos.co.uk
Generally good.
A very reliable site where you can reserve items to pick up at an argos store or have delivered.
Argos have a huge amount of products and almost all offer good value for money.
Argos has over 20,000 products in many different sections.
The only downside - you might find the odd item which is expensive.
Badly let down by Argos, would not recommend to anyone.
dreadful company, waited 3 weeks for delivery, damaged item and customer service very slow and unhelpful
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Chris O. Do you remember when they first opened their stores? Boy, that was something.
Anyway, I noted their "top searches":
TV
LEGO
BBQ
Trampoline
Gazebo
Curtains
Dyson
Kettle
Microwave
Nerf
I'm wondering, how much does that portray the average British family and its priorities these days?
K D. Yup. Fair England is pock-marked with cheap gazebos shredded by spring and autumnal gales, and scarred by millions of trampolines erected in a gardens and unused after the first week as you can't watch the TV while bouncing... Check Google satellite vies of any UK suburb to see the green spots in the gardens.
Chris O. I'm saddened to see the Dyson before the kettle, but pleased to see the kettle is still there. By and large, Americans don't really do kettles.
K D. Maybe because vacuum cleaners only last a couple of years and kettles average a decade? I had no idea what 'Nerf' was - just searched - a range of high powered water pistols. At least British yobs generally just shoot each other with water and not 9mm or.45 live rounds...
Chris O. You might want to research that comment a bit more ...
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Ultimate-Nerf-Vulcan-Mod/
K D. Ouch! But at least it's not lethal. Just watched the video clip. As a lad we used to hunt each other with catapults and acorns - they HURT!
Chris O. You must have missed the "convert your nerf gun to a taser" feature. No, really, there is one.
But yes I get the point. Ah, the good old days. Young boys playing football in the streets, sweaters for goalposts, running home to tea with jam roly-poly and custard and listening to the Ovaltinies on the wireless before going up the wooden hill to Bedforshire, tired but happy. Brings a tear to the eye just to be British.
According to the Wikipedia article about George Parker, who founded Parker Brothers, which in turn invented nerf guns, he chose a different route from other mid-19th century games manufacturers. He believed that games "did not need to emphasize morals and values".
His first game was called "Banking".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Brothers
K D. So you actually were "Just William" ?