Another High Street Rebrand

JAS84 · Tue 20 Aug, 2013 18.37

Yeah, Argos may end in an S, but the word is singular and therefore that should read "Argos IS changing".

Sput · Tue 20 Aug, 2013 19.01

Maybe Argo is the singular

all new Phil · Tue 20 Aug, 2013 19.17

Argo fuck yourself.

cwathen · Thu 22 Aug, 2013 11.54

thegeek wrote:It looks like Argos are going to be trying out a new concept - I was in a branch in London's Old Street yesterday, and they had a recruitment notice on the door, the text of which is also on their jobs site:

Perhaps Argos would care to complete their last 2 rebrands before embarking on yet another one. Stumbled across this poor store in Nottingham recently, still with the pre-1999 logo outside (and aren't those lines behind it from the mid-80's?)...

Andrew · Thu 22 Aug, 2013 21.36

Hasn't Broadmarsh in Nottingham been on the verge of refurbishment/rebuilding for about a decade, hence why Argos may not be bothering to refurb their store?

The interior and what was the Elizabeth Duke counter is also equally dated.

scottishtv · Fri 23 Aug, 2013 18.57

I read in the newspaper last week that the TSB transfer takes place on 9th September, so the TSB branches will be revealed. However, the Lloyds Bank rebrand is still being described as 'later this year' so unlikely to see both change on the same day.

Nick Harvey · Fri 23 Aug, 2013 19.43

9th September is confirmed in the latest letters to customers (on both sides of the divide) and in messages on Internet Banking. I first heard it verbally, however, about a month ago, from a C&G employee when I went in. If you've got what is about to become a "legacy" C&G account, it's worth going in on the 9th and transferring your money over into a new TSB account to improve your interest rate.

JAS84 · Fri 23 Aug, 2013 20.01

Andrew wrote:Hasn't Broadmarsh in Nottingham been on the verge of refurbishment/rebuilding for about a decade, hence why Argos may not be bothering to refurb their store?

The interior and what was the Elizabeth Duke counter is also equally dated.

At least for the last six years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadmarsh

Pete · Fri 23 Aug, 2013 21.32

madmusician wrote:Incidentally, am I right in thinking that the deposit system in Lloyds cashpoints has disappeared recently? You used to be able to ask for an envelope, put it into the ATM and key in how much (cash or cheques) you had deposited. But when I tried recently to do this there was no option for this - in new cashpoints in the centre of the town.

no i recently did this at my TSB. Could it be perhaps that the Lloyds machines won't let you use the new TSB cards?

WillPS · Fri 23 Aug, 2013 23.59

JAS84 wrote:
Andrew wrote:Hasn't Broadmarsh in Nottingham been on the verge of refurbishment/rebuilding for about a decade, hence why Argos may not be bothering to refurb their store?

The interior and what was the Elizabeth Duke counter is also equally dated.
At least for the last six years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadmarsh

Oh God longer than that! Pretty sure it was 2001 when they first unveiled one of those scale models, looking like The Bullring as was the fashion back then.

A scaled down version was due to commence (to the point that units were cleared and contractors arranged for demolition) in 2011, then at the last moment CSC crept in.

Oh, and while we're talking about CSC, they've recently become 'intu':

They're doing a Westfield and killing individual centre brands (or at least marginalising them) with that.

JAS84 · Sat 24 Aug, 2013 03.08

I'm glad they don't own any of my local shopping centres. They're like ITV, running roughshod over local heritage.