Hints and tips:
...Are seed catalogues going the same way as the Argos catalogue, which suffered its demise this year? (Something that would have been unthinkable back in 1984.)...
...Retailers including Asda and Argos are in line for potential billion-pound payouts after the UK’s highest court ruled that transaction fees charged by Visa and Mastercard breached competition laws....
...The last items of clothing I added to my wardrobe were a jumpsuit by French brand ba&sh and a vintage kamizola shirt from a costume studio in Argos, in the Peloponnese....
...Decent sales in food and clothing compare with a poor performance in the Argos division....
...Another High Court judge decided in 2017 that fees charged by Mastercard were not anti-competitive in a case brought by Argos, Morrison and Asda....
...The tables turn at university, and suddenly Marianne is surrounded by a studiously hip, mostly privately educated posse who look with disdain on Connell’s scruffy trainers, his “Argos chic”....
...“It took a long time to persuade my Auntie Jane, until I took her to a Labour for Independence meeting, and next morning she posted on Facebook that she was voting yes!...
...and the “strange shreds of rusty meat” for dinner at Lowood school, where Jane Eyre is a pupil, were so austere that they were exotic....
...These included Lorraine McGrane, 19, a serving member of the Territorial Army, who was arrested and convicted after admitting taking a television from an Argos store in south London....
...For Anne Elliot, Jane Austen’s most intelligent heroine, I would put together a box intended to comfort and console....
...For further expansion Jane Cavanagh, chief executive, said she was looking at locations such as China rather than Britain....
...Next to Burberry’s lustre and the ubiquity of Argos and Homebase, it is easy to overlook Experian, GUS’s credit checking business....
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