Argos wasn't called something else; instead, it emerged from the Green Shield Stamps catalogue business, with founder Richard Tompkins rebranding those catalogue shops as Argos starting in 1973, allowing customers to buy goods with cash instead of just stamps. The first Argos store opened in Canterbury in late 1973, evolving from the Stamp catalogue concept into the popular retailer known today, eventually becoming part of Home Retail Group and then Sainsbury's.
Argos Limited is a British retailer founded in 1973 by Richard Tompkins. Tompkins established Argos by evolving his existing Green Shield Stamps concept. Argos retained Green Shield Stamps' catalogue-store model, where customers browse from a book rather than from shelves. In 1979, Argos was acquired by BAT Industries.
Argos was set up in 1973, by Richard Tompkins of the Green Shield Trading Stamp Company, as a sister company to the Green Shield operations. The first 17 Argos stores opened on July 21, 1973. Argos was demerged from BAT Industries (which acquired it for £35m in 1979) in April 1990.
Árgos was probably the base of Dorian operations in the Peloponnese (c. 1100–1000 bce), and from that time onward it was the dominant city-state of Argolís. Under the Argive king Pheidon (7th century bce), Árgos was the dominant city-state in all the Peloponnese until the rise of Spartan power.
Retail company founded by Richard Tompkins in 1973, following his introduction of Green Shield Stamps in the United Kingdom. He rebranded the original Green Shield Stamps catalogue shops as Argos in July 1973. The first purpose-built shop opened in Canterbury in 1973.
Index was a catalogue retailer in the United Kingdom, which was owned by Littlewoods from 1985 until 2005. Many Index stores were attached to Littlewoods stores. It was a well known retailer in the 1980s and the 1990s, but sales declined in the noughties and it lost many customers to its main rival, Argos.
But it suffered when Tesco ceased to use it, as part of a price-cutting policy that became standard nationwide. To retain business, Green Shield allowed customers to buy gifts from the catalogue with a mix of stamps and cash, but soon the catalogue became cash-only, and the operation was re-branded as Argos.
Safeway, Netto, Fine Fare, Somerfield, Presto, Pricefighter and Pricekene are just some of the lost supermarkets of the 80s and 90s pictured in this retro photo gallery - with not a Lidl or an Aldi in sight. Somerfield was taken over by Co-op, Morrisons bought Safeway, and Netto was sold to Asda.
It was founded by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's and Belgian retailer GB-Inno-BM in 1979, as Sainsbury's Homebase. In December 2000, Sainsbury's sold the Homebase chain. In November 2002, Homebase was sold again, to GUS plc, It became Argos Retail Group (later renamed as Home Retail Group).
Popular while it lasted, the scheme suffered when Tesco eventually stopped using it and cut their prices across the board instead. This simple value for money approach proved so popular with shoppers that other retailers were forced to follow suit and the use of Green Shield Stamps started to decline.
Άργος People are called Argives. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Introduced a standard system of weights and measures that later became known as the Pheidonian measures.
Morrisons wasn't always Morrisons; many of its larger stores were formerly Safeway supermarkets, which Morrisons acquired in 2004, rebranding the stores by 2005, while older sites might have been Fine Fare or Food Giant. The company itself started as a market stall in Bradford by William Morrison in 1899, growing into Wm Morrison (Provisions) Limited and then Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC.
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In American English, this kind of building is usually called a store, and shop is only used to mean a very small store that has just one type of goods.
So, in 1973, he started rebranding Green Shield Stamps as Argos, named after the Greek city where Tompkins had been inspired and because it would feature high up in alphabetical listings. Just as the Argos brand was being rolled out, Tesco was starting to struggle.
Kleobis and Biton. Kleobis (Cleobis) and Biton (Ancient Greek: Κλέοβις, gen.: Κλεόβιδος; Βίτων, gen.: Βίτωνος) are two Archaic Greek Kouros brothers from Argos, whose stories date back to about 580 BCE. Two statues, discovered in Delphi, represent them.
