Argos Catalogue Shopping

When you walk into one of the 750+ Argos stores in the UK, you are confronted by booths of Argos catalogues - all open where the last customer left off just seconds earlier.

How does Argos catalogue shopping work?

It's simple - and that's why it's so effective. Argos catalogue shopping is one of the quickest, most efficient and customer-friendly ways to do your shopping.

Of course, you can't buy your groceries this way (well, not just yet!).

You'll be lucky if you're not in a small queue for use of one of these catalogues! Heavy as they may be (that's because they're packed with great value products), you'll start flicking your way through the Argos catalogue until you find the product you're after. Upon finding your desired product while Argos catalogue shopping, you simply take one of their famous blue forms, along with their dinky blue pens and fill in the catalogue number of the product you're after.

But how do you know your debts will be repaid?

Well, that's a good question. In front of you, just behind the catalogue (or above it) will be a digital screen with a keypad next to it. All you've got to do is type in the product's catalogue number and it will tell you if it is in stock (and how many Argos have in stock in that particular store). If it isn't in stock, it will tell you this, and may advise you to order one from the customer service desk.

Once you have checked the stock of your Argos catalogue item, and you've found that it's in stock (which 99% of the time it will be!), you can either head over to the manned payment desk, where an assistant will take your completed order form, type in your number, confirm the details of your product and request payment from you - or you can head to the self-service automatic payment machines where you can pay, collect or reserve a product you found either in the Argos catalogue or on argos.co.uk using your credit card.

Either way, you'll be presented with a receipt. This will give you an order number, order point and expected waiting time. All you've got to do now to complete your Argos catalogue shopping is wait for your number to be called.

When it is called, you need to go up to the desk, hand over your receipt and collect your product. You will then get your stamped receipt back and you're done!

That, in a nutshell, is how Argos catalogue shopping works.

It's so simple, and so effective - no wonder so many million shoppers head to Argos to buy what they need!