It has hit the headlines that high-street and online store, Argos, is turning to the popular, 21st century online shopping platform and relying on ecommerce hosting to boost sales.
Setting their future focus on becoming a ‘digital-led retailer’ the move by Argos’s parent group, the Home Retail Group, could lead to the traditional Argos Catalogue getting pushed to the sidelines and up to seventy-five of the retailer’s stores being closed down; originally it was estimated that only fifty of the chain’s seven-hundred and thirty-nine stores would close.
The Argos catalogue first came into circulation in the UK in 1973. Since then it has been a staple shopping catalogue in many a home and is currently run twice a year, with roughly seventeen million copies being printed. Continue reading
