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News The supply chain specialist manages more than one billion square feet of warehousing space supported by 1,600 vehicles across Europe and has retailers such as Argos and Early Learning Centre on its books. [21 Apr 2008]
Customer service warning for Xmas retailers
News Customer services departments will have to deal with a five-fold increase in the 10 days before Christmas compared to any other time of year, according to CRM application supplier numéro, which numbers Argos, Experian, JD Williams and Tesco among... [03 Dec 2007]
Retailers ignoring their online shoppers
News According to figures from the top 50 sites in terms of visits, only two high street brands - Argos and Tesco - feature in the top 10. While Tesco has gained traffic, Argos has slipped a place.silicon.com Retail & Leisure [30 May 2007]
UK retailers fail disability web access test
News The retail websites tested included Amazon, Apple, Argos, Carphone Warehouse, Dell, Expedia, lastminute.com, Marks & Spencer, Next, O2, Tesco and Thomas Cook. The UK's top online shopping sites all fail to meet basic web accessibility guidelines... [21 Sep 2006]
Internet and TV shopping on the rise
News Argos remains the second most popular retailer. Internet and TV shopping continue to grow - but not fast enough to prop up growth in the UK's home-delivery business. Sales of goods ordered in-store, by phone, online, via a catalogue or from a door... [30 Jun 2006]
Apple pricing 'blunder' caught on camera
News In 1999 Argos was caught out advertising televisions for £3. In both cases Argos refused to honour the sales. Apple appears to have become the latest firm to offer goods online at the wrong price and subsequently refuse to honour the sales. [04 Jan 2006]
Beating the insurance scammers
News Argos Business Solutions supplies many insurers with cards which they use to pay claimants. Genuine claimants often simply want goods replaced quickly, and the cards can be programmed with an item's Argos catalogue number if a specific item has... [22 Nov 2005]
Ecommerce sites panned for lack of security testing
News Despite a series of high-profile online security blunders at leading retailers such as Argos and B&Q in recent years, companies selling online are still failing to train staff to look for bugs and glitches which could betray customer details or... [20 May 2005]
Ecommerce sites face security crackdown
News Mastercard, Visa and American Express are all involved in the scheme, which is intended to encourage more shoppers to spend online and counter some recent negative publicity relating to the security of data provided online - such as Bank of... [20 Apr 2005]
Top 10 stories of 2003
News Exclusive: Now Argos exposes customer account details online On 17 November we exposed retail giant Argos for a shocking lack of security on its website which was leaving customer data exposed to all and sundry. [24 Dec 2003]
E-tail sites failing the Christmas test
News Argos was second fastest with an impressive 1.98 seconds. While e-tailers will doubtless be counting their takings from bumper Christmas sales well into the new year, they'd do well to invest some of it back into their websites according to the... [19 Dec 2003]
Argos and B&Q stay shtum with customers after e-bungle
News Argos and B&Q have not said they will contact their registered customers about recent security problems on their websites. One who contacted us and who wished to remain anonymous said: "I was actually in the Argos site and about to order a present... [18 Nov 2003]
Exclusive: Now Argos exposes customer account details online
News Argos has become the latest UK retail giant to be exposed by a silicon.com investigation into website security - with potentially thousands of customer account details readily available online to all and sundry. [17 Nov 2003]
Online Christmas comes early
News The bricks-and-mortar shops that will be showcasing their online presence include Argos and Carphone Warehouse and Argos. Despite the fact there's still a good few weeks til the day itself, online retailers are already getting in on the Xmas act... [31 Oct 2003]
Thai Airways back-tracks on 'too good to be true' air fares
News A number of high-profile blunders in the past have seen companies such as Argos, Amazon, First Choice and Kodak all make trouble for themselves by advertising products at the wrong price. In the latest example of a pricing blunder to hit the web... [25 Apr 2003]
