#Catalogue

Green Shield Stamps

Britain's first mass loyalty scheme: stamps at the petrol pump and the grocer, pasted into books and redeemed against a catalogue of things you d

The Twin-Tub Christmas Catalogue

Grattan, Kays, Littlewoods: a doorstop catalogue delivered in autumn, with the toy section thumbed to destruction by November.

Green Shield Stamps Becoming Argos

Argos opened in 1973, built directly on the Green Shield Stamps catalogue business, and invented a very British way to shop.