The end of the Catalogue

Things don't always stay the same even though you may of thought they'd never be a day they would but this week it was announced that it would.

The Argos catalogue ever since 1973 has been an institution tracking all that we thought was needed for the modern consumerist society with items coming and going over time but always there.

For a long time it was essential because it held the item numbers with seven digits such as 1**/0*** that we needed to write on a slip of paper we handed in at the store for your item to arrive after waiting for "Customer 430 to our collection desk" as the item would come down for us to collect.

Of course the modern world added computerized ordering from a online site to it but for a good number of us just doing things old school was quick and easy but as people cannot hang around in vast busy stores and many people seeing trying to use the high street with Covid restrictions as too much of a faff are just ordering online.

That has lead Argos to say the last one will go from stores buy January 2021.

 For many of us we dashed to get a copy and circle the stuff we wanted like a Strawberry Shortcake dolls and leave it for parents and relatives to find sharing thoughts with others a ritual that will end with the catalogue.

It's possible a Christmas offers leaflet may emerge although to be honest I find paper catalogues much easier to seach for things in than online ones such as Amazon's.

R.I.P Argos Catalogue