Argos annoys me sooo much

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So, Argos annoys me so much.

The whole god damned setup frustrates the hell out of me, it annoys me to the point that i would just rather not go in there.

Why is it that you always have to wait 3 times as long in argos to get your goods than anywhere else?

Why is it that your number seems to take longer than everyone else's to get called out by the silly voice?

Why is it that the conveyor belt system they use to get some goods from the warehouse to the serving counter always breaks down just as you see your item coming down it?

Xmas in Argos is just a complete no-no, i have walked past and the shop has literally been bursting at the seams with customers waiting to collect their goods.


No particular reason for this little outburst other than i am bored at work and was thinking of things that really annoy me.

Any thoughts on the subject?
 
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Want electricals - go to an electrical retailer
Want DVDs/games - Go to a DVD/games retailer
Want cheap jewellery - go to H.Samuel
Want cheap office/house furniture - go to Ikea
 
The setup has always worked quite well in my store TBH.

What annoys me more is how overpriced some of the products are. Was looking for a mobile phone last week that was 80 pounds in Argos and 50 just down the road in the Orange Shop. :(
 
shifty_uk said:
Want electricals - go to an electrical retailer
Want DVDs/games - Go to a DVD/games retailer
Want cheap jewellery - go to H.Samuel
Want cheap office/house furniture - go to Ikea
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its true, I wonder if Argos will eventually have the problem Woolworths had of just selling too much.
 
Argos by mine has always been good, never annoyed me. Although around Christmas it can be a nightmare with a lot of sweaty people standing around and the staff being too rushed off thier feet.

But, it's like this at the end of the day eBay > *
 
Argos is chavtastic but has its uses for trivial electical items that I can't be bothered to wait for from Amazon.
 
Because people are Lazy and Argos sells almost everything, also you get to sit down while spotty little college drop outs do all the work for you.
 
zootfloot said:
So, Argos annoys me so much.

The whole god damned setup frustrates the hell out of me, it annoys me to the point that i would just rather not go in there.

Why is it that you always have to wait 3 times as long in argos to get your goods than anywhere else?

Why is it that your number seems to take longer than everyone else's to get called out by the silly voice?

Why is it that the conveyor belt system they use to get some goods from the warehouse to the serving counter always breaks down just as you see your item coming down it?

Xmas in Argos is just a complete no-no, i have walked past and the shop has literally been bursting at the seams with customers waiting to collect their goods.


No particular reason for this little outburst other than i am bored at work and was thinking of things that really annoy me.

Any thoughts on the subject?
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1. You don't. The system automatically calls you up after the time it thinks it should take for your item to arrive has passed (usually circa. 2 mins) or you are manually called up when the item has arrived and the worker on collection has seen it. It doesn't single you out to take a bit longer, even if you do think the world revolves around you.

2. See above.

3. In 4 years of working there part-timeI have never seen the conveyor belt break down. more likely is that as your product is half-way down, someone at the top of the belt has stopped it so they can put a fragile/large item on for the next customer.

The system however, doesn't work. It all goes to pot as soon as the tickets upstairs get backed up which due to consistent short staffing is inevitable. So as soon as it gets busy, the whole place is screwed until the back log is cleared, which, at times such as xmas is pretty much never :)

Also, I hate that the collection point calls you up after a certain amount of time, it should let the customer wait where they are until they are manually called up because their item has arrived. This would save the constant chore of:

Me - Sorry sir, your item isn't here just yet but it will be here soon.

The reply to this always one of the following:

Well the computer called me up so it MUST be there somewhere. - no.
Well why did YOU call me up then. - no.
Yes it is, I can see it. - no, that's a 32" TV and you're waiting for a cutlery set, fo.

So glad I don't work there anymore.
 
So what we are actually saying here is the following:

1) I am on my period.

2) No one else finds the Argos experience to be annoying except me.

3) Nearly everyone who goes to argos is a chav.

4) Some people have no thoughts on the subject, yet kindly take the time to say that they have no thoughts on the subject.:rolleyes:


Think that covers just about everything :D
 
it's argos. it's cheap, and you get what you pay for.

deal with it.
if you don't like it, go to Heal's
 
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