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And being the UK’s leading discount retailer means our garden range offers both good quality and fantastic value for money. Browse our full garden range online and use our handy store finder to locate your local Poundstretcher to buy in store. Check out our latest Gardening Blogs Solar Lights That Won’t Cost The Earth… If you’re looking to create a magical lighting effect in your garden this summer, we have a selection of great value solar lights sure to please. Get Ready for the Planting Season with Poundstretcher At Poundstretcher you’ll find all the gardening supplies you need to get your garden ready for the spring planting season, without having to break the bank to do so. Discover Poundstretcher’s Top 5 Picks for Garden Fencing this Spring! Looking for some inspiration for your garden? Then check out our top 5 picks for garden fencing this year. Argos is a retailer that anyone in the UK is familiar with, but not many Americans recognize the name.
Their catalogs (or, as they say over there- “catalogues”) are pretty similar to a JC Penny’s or Sears variety selling a mix of everything from gardening equipment and lava lamps to bath towels and Star Wars action figures. And, of course, they had models to help sell their wares. Like Barker’s Beauties on the Price is Right who could make even a can of Folgers seem titillating, , these old Sears and JC Penny catalogs had all manner of pretty ladies modeling their home furnishings and braziers. Young lads in the US held their catalog foxes dear (especially the ladies of the lingerie section) and I’m sure the 70s/80s kids in the UK held their Argos models in similar regard. Argos definitely holds its own. What makes them so special? Well, in casual interior decor pages, there’s not much to write home about (other than groovy interiors galore). And there isn’t a lingerie section – the most important part of a JC Penny and Sears catalog. I think the awesomeness lies in how they really “sexed it up” here and there.
Whether it’s patio furniture or shower curtains, the Argos ladies had it going on. I will admit – things start out a bit tame, but by the early 1980s, the Argos gals are really selling the hell out of some shower equipment! We’ll cover up to 1981 in this post, then continue into the remainder of the 80s in the next. And as with the Miniskirt Monday – if vintage babes aren’t your thing, there’s still plenty of retro-goodness to be found in these pages. For each example I will include a “zoomed out” scan of the catalog pages and then a “detail” of the foxy catalog mama therein. That contraption looks dangerous. Good thing she’s wearing shades. Argos No.11 1979 Spring Summer Best workout attire ever: high waisted shorts and a bikini-top. One can only imagine the level of 1970s bouncing. Argos No.12 Autumn Winter 1979 Argos bed linen models generally sleep in the nude. ‘1 System – 5 Shapes”….. written atop a woman’s nude soapy body.
Argos No.13 1980 Spring Summer She’s workin’ it really hard, but he’s more interested in that scrumptious buttered roll thank-you-very-much. If ever there were a catalog that smelled like pancakes, it’s the Argos catalogue. Argos No. 15 1981 Spring Summer Mixed drinks are not allowed in US catalogs. Kid on the left: “Jimmy, your mom is a definite MILF.” Just so you know, Google has hammered us (even thought there was no nudity). Looks like I have the last laugh – there’s plenty of pancakes to be had in the Argos patio furniture section. By the 1990s, they’d just show the inflatable mattresses. Not so in the 70s and 80s – there had to be a catalogue honey in the picture. Sears and JC Penny never had a topless woman tanning her boobs. As I said, Argos ladies liked to sleep in the buff.Retailers Argos and Littlewoods were today fined a record £22.6 million by the Office of Fair Trading for fixing the price of toys and games made by Hasbro.An investigation by the OFT concluded that Argos and Littlewoods had entered into anti-competitive agreements with the toy giant between 1999 and May 2001.Argos was fined £17.28 million, reflecting its higher turnover, and Littlewoods £5.37 million.
Today fines are the biggest by the OFT for price-fixing under powers provided by the Competition Act 1998.Last November's £4.95 million fine against Hasbro was the previous record.Before that the highest was against Cambridge-based Napp Pharmaceuticals which was fined £2.2 million on appeal for discounts on pain relief tablets for cancer sufferers.Emma Harrison, of the Consumers' Association, said: "Price-fixing by companies is theft from the consumer and the fine imposed by the OFT on Argos and Littlewoods is good news for consumers."It sends a strong message to retailers that price-fixing will not be tolerated and that the cynical manipulation of prices will not go unpunished."The fact that Hasbro has blown the whistle on Argos and Littlewoods is to be welcomed, as is their full co-operation with the OFT's investigation."Being let off their fine is not as welcome but maybe next time they'll think harder about entering into a price-fixing arrangement."Littlewoods announced it would appeal against the OFT's ruling.