Argos, with its 750 or so stores in the UK is the largest ‘general goods’ retailer. Since the products are shown is by way of a catalogue rather than displaying them on shelves, the transition to selling online should have been an easy one, when compared to more traditional outlets.

In many ways Argos is somewhat unique – other shops don’t sell only out of a catalogue, and other catalogues don’t have retail outlets. This seems to position Argos somewhere in the ‘best of both worlds’ category.

On 23rd January 2010, Argos embarked on a gigantic re-branding exercise, beginning with it’s website in conjunction with the Spring/Summer 2010 catalogue. Re-branding of the all of the stores is likely to take place over the next few years.

With the catalogue only being updated twice a year, one of the challenges that Argos seem to have faced is offering an up-to-date product selection in fast moving markets such as photography and computing. With the advent of online shopping however, new products can be added to the website at any time, allowing the company to compete on a level playing-field.

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Amazon was founded by Jeffery Bezos in 1994, with the main objective to be not to miss out on a perfect opportunity to make some money out of the Internet Gold Rush. What he did was to set the wheels in motion for the creation of what is arguably the biggest online store in the UK today.

As Amazon is an online only store, there is no way to pop in and ask the advice of the staff, but what is available is not only detailed information about the product range, but completely independent and unbiased reviews and comments from customers for almost every digital camera that has ever existed.

Over the past years, Amazon have been super competitive on the prices of many thousands of products, and this opportunity for people to save money has been in our view one of the major enablers for people to switch from ‘high street’ to ‘armchair’ shopping.

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Jessops is the UK’s largest photography specialist, having more than 200 High Street stores nationwide. The firm was founded as a single store in Leicester in 1935 by Frank Jessop.

After a management buyout in 1966, the firm expanded rapidly into all major UK towns and cities, several larger stores known as ‘World Camera Centres’ in the larger cities. Because of financial difficulties in 2007 the company reduced itself somewhat in size, closing around eighty of its stores

Today, the company, which prides itself on giving advice to customers rather than ‘box-shifting’, continues to produce a quarterly mail order catalogue (available to pick up at any of Jessops stores), and has a large online store, found at ‘Jessops.com’

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