All Argos articles – Page 53
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NewsHome Retail Group posts 24 per cent fall in preliminary profits
Home Retail Group, owner of the Argos and Homebase chains, has warned of continued tough trading conditions ahead after posting a 24 per cent fall in preliminary profits.
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NewsArgos launches entertainment website
Argos has launched an entertainment website selling 125,000 CDs and DVDs.Argosentertainment.co.uk is separate to the retailer’s main site and will enable it to “enter a popular market and offer a large choice of CDs and DVDs to customers shopping online”.Games will not be available on the site, but can be ...
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NewsSara Weller: retailers will expect multichannel ventures to pay their way
Argos managing director Sara Weller has highlighted the opportunities and challenges retailers face as they attempt to strengthen multichannel operations.
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AnalysisStore design: a little goes a very long way
Retailers are faced with some tough choices at the moment and retail design may well be low down on their list of priorities. But can they afford to do without it? John Ryan and Laura Lupton report
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Dotcom incorporated: Integrating the e-tail business
Most retailers launch e-tail operations as standalone departments, but some argue they need to be better integrated with the business. Liz Morrell assesses the benefits
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Argos email campaign lifts customer review response
Argos has generated a massive volume of customer reviews after running an email campaign in January to encourage customers to provide feedback on the products they had recently purchased.
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Argos confirms it will discontinue Indian trial
Argos parent company Home Retail Group has confirmed that it will discontinue its trial in India, in a move first predicted by Retail Week.
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Argos changes tack on prices
Catalogue store group Argos has jettisoned a long-standing element of its price promotion strategy and introduced a new marketing strapline to emphasise its value credentials.
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Argos launches biggest ever Christmas Sale
Argos has become the latest retailer to offer unprecedented discounting in the run-up to Christmas, launching a half-price Sale that the retailer said was its biggest ever.
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Key Argos supplier hits the buffers
One of Home Retail Group’s largest furniture suppliers has gone into administration.
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Argos error causes shoppers to be charged twice
Argos charged 190,000 shoppers twice for purchases made in its stores last Friday.
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Retailers criticised for high-interest pre-pay schemes
Critics are lambasting some of the UK’s most well-known high street stores for high-interest credit schemes targeting low-income consumers in the run-up to Christmas.
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Retailers criticised for high-interest pre-pay schemes
Critics are lambasting some of the UK’s most well-known high street stores for high-interest credit schemes targeting low-income consumers in run-up to Christmas.
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Tough outlook for Home Retail as profits fall
Home Retail Group has posted a plunge in first-half profits and warned that the full-year figure will be at the low end of expectations unless trading conditions improve.
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Argos to recruit far fewer seasonal staff this Christmas
Catalogue store group Argos will recruit 15,000 temporary staff this Christmas – a 25 per cent drop on last year’s number.
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Argos like-for-likes nosedive in second quarter
The mighty Argos became the latest victim of the consumer recession, as like-for-likes plummeted during the second quarter.
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Argos reaches pay settlement with staff
Argos has settled a dispute with distribution workers after offering them an amended pay deal.
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Argos strike back on
Argos distribution staff are going ahead with strike action over a 4 per cent pay offer after suspending it last week when Argos offered them a revised deal.
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Argos celebrates 35th birthday with biggest catalogue to date
Argos will launch its new catalogue tomorrow, which will carry 700 more products than a year ago.
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Argos strike suspended
Argos has averted strike action due to take place tomorrow, following negotiations between its management and union Unite.