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Old Apr 11th 2006 | 11:33 am
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Just wondering if there is anything similar to Argos in Australia?

I was there last year but never came across anything similar? (Not that I was looking like)

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Old Apr 11th 2006 | 11:35 am
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Originally Posted by Tiawamutu
Just wondering if there is anything similar to Argos in Australia?

I was there last year but never came across anything similar? (Not that I was looking like)

TIA
Thankfully, no there is isn't.
 
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Thankfully, no there is isn't.
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Old Apr 11th 2006 | 11:40 am
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Some of the stuff is sh*t like, but it is handy for the odd thing, that you can't seem to find anywhere else!
 
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Originally Posted by Tiawamutu
Some of the stuff is sh*t like, but it is handy for the odd thing, that you can't seem to find anywhere else!
I think it's got to be one of the most ridiculous ways to shop ever invented.

You can get everything you need here at Target, Big W, Kmart etc.
 
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
I think it's got to be one of the most ridiculous ways to shop ever invented.

You can get everything you need here at Target, Big W, Kmart etc.
Cool Can't wait to be there....

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Originally Posted by Amazulu
I think it's got to be one of the most ridiculous ways to shop ever invented.

You can get everything you need here at Target, Big W, Kmart etc.
Oh please...Kmart et al are like most Australian shops, pretty crap by comparison..Argos is excellent, you truly can get anything you need there in one go
 
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Originally Posted by Shellfish
Oh please...Kmart et al are like most Australian shops, pretty crap by comparison..Argos is excellent, you truly can get anything you need there in one go
Furniture is crap (from past exp) but it can be handy, when you cba to search around
 
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Oh please...Kmart et al are like most Australian shops, pretty crap by comparison..Argos is excellent, you truly can get anything you need there in one go
Whatever. Shopping is boring as (unless it's for intersting stuff like computers, cars, DVDs, electronics etc) wherever you are.
 
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
Whatever. Shopping is boring as (unless it's for intersting stuff like computers, cars, DVDs, electronics etc) wherever you are.
Let me guess........are you male?
 
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Let me guess........are you male?
Yes! I tend to leave the 'boring' shopping to my wife.
 
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Argos was probably one shop that I did miss when we first arrived. I didn't know where to go for stuff and found it hard to compare prices and goods across all the different shops as not all the brands were familiar but once we settled in and got used to everything I do not miss it at all and as someone else said you can get most stuff in Target or K Mart.
 
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
I think it's got to be one of the most ridiculous ways to shop ever invented.

You can get everything you need here at Target, Big W, Kmart etc.
I love KMart. You can get anything from a oil for your car, to a spare fishing rod to a reasonably priced paperback. It's actually a bloody useful shop.
 
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Originally Posted by Tiawamutu
Just wondering if there is anything similar to Argos in Australia?

I was there last year but never came across anything similar? (Not that I was looking like)

TIA
As others have said you will find everything you could ever want at Target, an excellent store, knicked from the Americans like virtually everything else over here, but thats not a bad thing.
 


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