Argos..... HOW????

Undercoverguy

OK the new Agros catalog was released in the last two weeks or so and i just have to hand it too them.... ITS HUGE.
The bible doesn't have a thing on this like!

My question is how in gods name do they fit every item into their stores!

The new Catalog is roughly 1600 Pages of products.
I've adveraged each page at containing 10 items.
Thats 16,000 Items!

AND of course Agros always have at least 3 of each product in before they re-order so that brings the grand tally to around..... emmmmm.....

48,000 ITEMS

How?!?!?!...... J-Just..... HOW!?!?!?


Personally i reckon the main Argos store room is situated at the Earths core and a clever network of tunnels and tubes do the rest......

Does anyone know? Like an employee of Argos or something?

Creamy Goodness

they wouldn't have everything in stock in the shops, for example "the home delivery items only" (garden furniture, pool tables etc.) would not be stocked in store.

OfflerCrocGod

I have actually wondered about this before

koneko

They don't. The stuff marked "extra" is only available in select few stores or to order. So a lot of the new stuff isn't available in the normal stores (at least, not the ones near me because they're not "Extra" stores).

Also what cremo mentioned (home delivery stuff).

Slunk

I think the stuff marked "extra" has to be ordered four days before collection I think.

Agent Smith

".
Thats 16,000 Items!

AND of course Agros always have at least 3 of each product in before they re-order so that brings the grand tally to around..... emmmmm.....

480,000 ITEMS"

would that not be 48000 items?

Nightwish

There are "home delivery only" marked products, which are delivered to your house, direct from the warehouse in the UK.
The Extra lines are stocked in store by Argos Extra stores, which are all the new stores, such as Wexford, Cavan etc. Other smaller stores dont have the capacity to facilitate Extra products, so they are "ordered in" from the warehouse as "CSO's"- Customer Special Order's, which usually takes about 4 days. They are then kept for the customer for a minimum of 2 days to a maximum of 10 days instore, after which, they are not collected, they are sent back to the UK

Optimus

What they dont want you to know is that they dont stock anything.
In each and every store there are hundreds of oompa loompa like workers.
They work immensly quickly when an order comes through to build the order from scrap.
If an item is out of stock it usually means the designer of said item is out on sick leave, home delivary items are only marked home delivary to get the extra 30 euro from delivering said item.

Nightwish

^^^I am not an oompah loompah :eek:

shepthedog

They would know exactly what products are most popular and the best sellers and hence keep ample stocks, for the others often you cant get what you want and have to order it in... You can be sure from years of trading they have the "Just in Time" ordering system nailed down to a fine art. Probably getting twice daily deliveries, all computerised ordering etc.. also those little checking machines are guaranteed to be link to a central system to log product popularity etc etc.. Simple really Thats my theory anyway...

Chaos_Path

the storerooms actually a narnia of household appliances,garden furniture and electrical goods.

eth0_

Narnia is right!
Didn't Bill bailey mention this in his latest DVD? heh

The Real B-man

got the uk one here tis even bigger you can buy quad bikes ffs :eek:

Nightwish

shepthedog wrote:

They would know exactly what products are most popular and the best sellers and hence keep ample stocks, for the others often you cant get what you want and have to order it in... You can be sure from years of trading they have the "Just in Time" ordering system nailed down to a fine art. Probably getting twice daily deliveries, all computerised ordering etc.. also those little checking machines are guaranteed to be link to a central system to log product popularity etc etc.. Simple really Thats my theory anyway...

get one delivery every night mon-fri. and no they dont just stock the most popular items. there is a list of the top 100, but thats it. there can be lots of one product in stock that might only sell once a month.

Chaos_Path

eth0_ wrote:

Narnia is right!
Didn't Bill bailey mention this in his latest DVD? heh

i like plaigairism


its 5am i cant spell

ugh

mang87

The argos store is magic. It infact possesses many more dimentions than it appears to from the outside.

boo4842

agent smith wrote:

".
would that not be 48000 items?

*cough*

ambro25

One word... Tardis!

skywalker

koneko wrote:

They don't. The stuff marked "extra" is only available in select few stores or to order. So a lot of the new stuff isn't available in the normal stores (at least, not the ones near me because they're not "Extra" stores).

Also what cremo mentioned (home delivery stuff).

Bloody annoying that is, when you dont cop it until your in the queue for the till.

Kingsize

eth0_ wrote:

Narnia is right!
Didn't Bill bailey mention this in his latest DVD? heh

he refers to the in store catalogue as a laminated book of dreams designed to withstand the tears of joy that may occur when you read it

c - 13

Kingsize wrote:

he refers to the in store catalogue as a laminated book of dreams designed to withstand the tears of joy that may occur when you read it

So many beautiful things ..... I cannot possess them all ... **sob**

seamus

You'd be surprised how easily you'd fit 48,000 items into a well-organised warehouse.

Remember that vast bulk of items are small or disassembled.

monkeyfudge

eth0_ wrote:

Narnia is right!
Didn't Bill bailey mention this in his latest DVD? heh

Yeah..... It's really funny stuff...

"The laminated book of dreams!"

You can see that bit of the show here.

Just clink on 'view the trailer'

Undercoverguy

My bad..... it actually is 48,000 items. Still a bloddy lot tho! Imagine they were all the sixe of a 500ml bottle of coke...... Still take up a lot or bloody space!

joejoem

Ive allways pictured it like Mary Poppins handbag. Remember she was taking loads of lamps and chairs out of it??

okidoki987

get the extra 30 euro from delivering said item

Optimus
If you're living in Dublin, it's FREE delivery!

drunkenfool

id say they dont have half the items in the catelogue, cause you have to put in the number of the product to check if they have any in stock. Id say that goest to a database and then they know whats the most popular.
I remember being in there once and wanting a to buy a couple of products, serveral of them "were not in stock".

Nightwish

drunkenfool wrote:

id say they dont have half the items in the catelogue, cause you have to put in the number of the product to check if they have any in stock. Id say that goest to a database and then they know whats the most popular.
I remember being in there once and wanting a to buy a couple of products, serveral of them "were not in stock".

there is no database!!! theres only a top 100, dont you people believe me. Several of your products may not have been in stock, cos they were sold out. Ever think that may happen?
a none Extra stockroom, will facilitate all Non-Extra, Non Home delivery items.
an Extra stockroom, will have all Extra and Non extra products, but again not the home delivery stuff.

jaggeh

only flatpacked and light electrical goods/tools/jewellry/toys etc are stocked in-store
heavy electrics and premade furniture is stored in the local warehouse for select items and the central warehouse for everything else.

grimloch

Alot of their stuff in in their warehouse with very high shelves.

Nightwish

yeah but the heavy electrical stuff can be ordered in as a SUI product. The stock room, still facilitates those.

mcguiver

Yep they've a great system, re-ordering, stats etc.
Here's another useless fact.... To get your products into their brochure the manufacturers have to pay for the costs of printing etc. And they recon it's value for money cos people keep that book of advertising untill the next one comes along, unlike your daily papers etc. that get binned!!

Downside of dealing with this UK company is that they bring in products not destined for the Irish market, so you can have problems getting consumerables etc. Eg. Philips dont sell sunbeds in Ireland, so they don't have a back up service when your Argos bought one breaks etc.
And if you return anything to Argos without a receipt they will not deal with you/ return it to supplier/service etc.

BUY IRISH!!

Tar.Aldarion

they wont let argos set up in sligo *anger*

kevinmcc

By the looks of things we'll soon be able to shop on argos.ie

grimloch

kevinmcc wrote:

By the looks of things we'll soon be able to shop on argos.ie

About time tbh. I'm surprised its taken them so long.

*Page*

They get in deliveries every night of stock and their wearhouses are usually huge!

BigEejit

I think they are great for some of those hard to get items ... and also a great yardstick for prices when you are not familiar with value of an item ... we have a Argos Extra store here and the quantity of stuff that they have is great ....

There was a article in the paper over here recently where all Argos store managers were basically offered a far more junior job (floor supervisor or something .... not replacing their old jobs) as a cost cutting measure .... I have to say that looks like something that could blow up in their faces very quickly

][cEMAN**

Yeah they have a 48 hour delivery service....which really takes.....lets see how long i'm waiting now. It's now saturday, and I ordered it on the 4th, and i've been told it won't be here until next week......

On an item that's small enough for a child to carry out of the store ffs...

Wacker

Hey, am I the only one who is really curious as to what is one that top 100 list? What do most people buy? Anyone?

Mimikyu

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Bri

The Real B-man wrote:

got the uk one here tis even bigger you can buy quad bikes ffs :eek:

:eek:
/me roars out of the local Argos.

What next? A sex toy section?!

MrJoeSoap

I used to work for Argos, the warehouses are very spacious, well organised and the stock-check and deliveries are excellent. Never got around to counting the actual number of items in the stock room, and I'm no good at guessing things like that, but me reckons it must have held around 48,000 ish.

Give or take a score.