In a move designed to accelerate growth of its clothing division, UK supermarket group Sainsbury’s is to make its Tu clothing range available at Argos from next month.
Customers will be able to order Tu clothing, which already contributes close to GBP1bn (US$1.4bn) of annual sales to the group, online by 2pm for next day home delivery or free Click & Collect from 1,100 Sainsbury’s and Argos stores across the country.
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There will be no minimum order size and returns will be free at any Argos and Sainsbury’s location.
Argos’s website is now the third most visited retail website in the UK, with 60% of sales originating online. Sainsbury’s says Argos has developed a new ‘look and feel’ for shopping Tu on its website tailored to what it calls the “fashion experience” and will give customers immediate information on availability.
Sainsbury’s acquired Argos from Home Retail Group eighteen months ago with a GBP1.4bn takeover bid.
“We know that customers are increasingly shopping for clothes online and that they love the convenience of being able to collect them from a store. When we bought Argos we always knew that we wanted to enable customers to buy Tu clothing from Argos so this is a major milestone for us,” says Sainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe. “We hope Argos customers embrace the Tu range in the way that Sainsbury’s customers have over the past ten years.”
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