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Ah Memories. Argos cat 1985 till now

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  • #2
    bonerm
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    Argos Catalogue = 1985 Internet.

    Coincidentally we actually got our Commodore 64 for Xmas 1985, tho it had the 'proper' monitor - rather than the black TV featured on the page. I think it took a year to pay for the thing on the never-never? Different times!


  • #3
    Fittle
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    That's just brill :D

    Argos wasn't in ireland in 1985 though was it???


  • #4
    Max_Damage
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    Fittle wrote: »
    That's just brill :D

    Argos wasn't in ireland in 1985 though was it???

    Argos came here sometime in the mid-to-late 90's. Their product selection in the Republic was very limited initially, often with pages of stuff in the Irish catalogues listed as 'not available in the Rep. Of Ireland'.

    I remember heading to Enniskillen and Belfast in the early 90's, and shopping in Argos there.


  • #5
    Dudess
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    We went on holidays to England nearly every year in the 80s, and a trip to Argos was by far the highlight.


  • #6
    Beasty
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    Argos opened up in Ireland in 1996. However Argos actually originated from Green Shield Stamps (Green Shield Stamp stores in the UK were rebranded as Argos in 1973), which I understand were available in Ireland in the 1970s


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  • #7
    L1011
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    I think the first Argos opened up in the actual Green Shield store that had been empty for years?


  • #8
    Stained Class
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    Fittle wrote: »

    Argos wasn't in ireland in 1985 though was it???


    Nope.

    I remember going into one in England in '89.

    I just couldn't get over this concept.

    No stock to look at. Just a rake of catalogues to leaf through & pick stuff from. Unreal.:confused:


  • #9
    oneweb
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    MYOB wrote: »
    I think the first Argos opened up in the actual Green Shield store that had been empty for years?
    Was that where the big Superquinn or Quinnsworth Toys used to be on Mary St? I remember going in when Argos opened there, what a poky little place with barely-in-place plasterboard walls!

    It is what it's.



  • #10
    Thomas828
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    Fittle wrote: »
    That's just brill :D

    Argos wasn't in ireland in 1985 though was it???

    It was if you include the North. The first branch of Argos in Northern Ireland opened in Belfast in 1981. And their catalogues were only about 200 pages thick, whereas now they're about ten times that size!


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
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    Got very bored tonight!

    So I did some price comparisons with the 2011 UK catalogue.

    Many of the items are nearly the same price now as they were then, that's despite at least 150% inflation.


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