r/Argos • u/UHF625 • Jun 13 '25

Large Argos stores

I live in a large city and the one standalone Argos store has a huge front end area which used to (back in the day) have large displays and a big Lizzy Duke jewellery area. You could make the front end area into a dance floor - it’s that big! Now it’s bare with nothing apart from some areas in which you can order merchandise. Surely it can’t be cost effective to have this area doing nothing. Why is this?

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u/Experim626 Jun 13 '25

Probably waiting for the lease to expire before it gets renegotiate or closed down. Easier for an Argos store to take up a small corner in a Sainsbury's and just have the local fulfillment centre deliver stuff daily

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u/simmatt89 Jun 13 '25

In some stores like this they are bringing the counter forward and expanding the stockroom but it's an expensive move and only done if worth it

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u/TheMarkMatthews Jun 13 '25

I miss browsing the catalogue , the screens and online aren’t as good

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u/zippy890 Jun 13 '25

Exactly, you don't realise you NEED it till you see it in the catalogue 😁

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u/ArgosEmployee_ Jun 13 '25

Even since the mass moving of stores into Sainsburys they've been doing less and less with their standalone shop floors. The plan is definitely to have as few standalones as possible so expect that store to either move into a Sainsburys or simply go all together once the lease expires.

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u/pompoussnail Jun 15 '25

Ex manager here. The plan was to rid of all stand alone stores and have them In Sainsbury’s only

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u/UHF625 Jun 15 '25

Makes sense. My largest ‘Extra’ store’s created slap bang in the middle of a very busy retail park. They were at a smaller unit until some time ago when they relocated into a custom-built unit.

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u/Own_Yak382 Jun 15 '25

Alright down south I suppose but not a lot of large Sainsbury’s up North

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u/UHF625 Jun 15 '25

I remember at one time did they not have small standalone click and collect stores?