Trading and Argos2 Jul 2024 08:56
Reasonably good grocery numbers (expected to slow), and it's great that the bank is going to give us £250m but what to do about Argos???
We have a UK wide delivery network in our grocery vans. Just the same as Amazon (okay, theirs is bigger). Why not use this as the asset it is and allow you to add free delivery to Argos orders, delivered in conjunction with your grocery's (from those stores with an Argos). Plus offer double/triple Nectar points as standard when delivered with your groceries to get everyone engaged. I just don't get the model for Argos, it is treated like a separate business when it comes to searching and buying items. If you get deliveries from a Sainsbury's with an Argos, all products should be in the Sainsbury's site listings as well, we'd rapidly grow sales and it cannot be that hard from a tech and logistics basis (you might need a minimum 48 hrs ahead delivery slot. I won't even look at Argos's offering because of the delivery charges yet Sainsburys pitch up at my house every week. I'd much prefer to give my money to a UK, tax paying business than the yanks.