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Shopping

UK retailers, from high street department stores and electrical retailers to catalogue stores.  Also price comparison searches for products.

• Supermarket chains

  • Tesco.com - the UK's largest supermarket chain, offers a selection of books, electrical goods and other items online as well as grocery home delivery services.
  • Asda.co.uk - The UK's second largest supermarket offers online grocery shopping.
  • Sainsburys.co.uk - Home shopping delivery, electricals and Sainsbury's bank.
  • Waitrose.com - John Lewis's supermarket chain.
    • Ocado.com - this company delivers Waitrose food and is aimed at shoppers with bigger budgets, such as large families, as it offers free delivery on large orders.
  • Safeway.co.uk - supermarket chain, includes recipe ideas.
  • Iceland.co.uk - Offers home shopping from their icelandstore.co.uk site.
  • The Co-op's home shopping site.

   

• Electrical retailers

  • Mobile phone page has cheap deals, mobile retailers and mobile price comparison links.
  • Digital cameras page has digital camera retailers, price comparisons and reviews.
  • MP3 players page has MP3 player retailers, comparison links and reviews.
  • TVs pages lists LCD and plasma TV comparisons and reviews

  General electrical retailers

  • Comet - provides a variety of electrical goods.

  • Dixons - the largest UK electrical retailer.

  • Currys - the high street electrical retailer, part of the Dixons group.

  • Co-op Electrical Shop - electrical goods, including mobile phones from the Co-op.
  • Empiredirect.co.uk - electrical goods retailer.
  • Amazon.co.uk are a large retailer of electronics (and books and CDs etc.)

 

• Categories

  Pages containing price comparison searches for specific products and lists of retailers

  • Computing - includes monitors, printers and the following subsections
    • External hard drives
    • Graphics cards.
    • Hard drives
    • Solid State Drives (SSDs)
    • Computer Memory
    • Removable flash Memory (for digital cameras etc.)
    • Processors
    • Wireless networking - lists searches for wireless networking products (routers, adapters etc.)
  • Digital cameras - lists cheap digital cameras.
  • Electronics - lists searches for electronics goods including Digital cameras, DVD recorders, Set Top boxes and MP3 players (items that were on this page).
  • Mobile phones - lists cheap contract phone deals.
  • Music and DVDs - see the MP3 players page.
  • MP3 players  - lists of
  • Power Tools - searches for power tools.
  • Sport - searches for sporting goods.
  • Cars - environmentally friendly cars.

   

• Other price comparison pages:

  • UK price comparison websites lists most major UK comparison sites (including a list of computer hardware comparison sites) and gas and electricity comparison companies

  • Financial Comparisons - lists sites offering financial comparisons of mortgages, credit cards etc.

  • The Travel page has links to flight, holiday and hotel comparison sites.

   

• Department stores

  • JohnLewis.com - Online arm of the popular department store chain and partnership.
  • Marks and Spencer - Food, clothing and home furnishings chain.
  • Debenhams.com - department store chain.
  • LXDirect - Littlewood's department store online.
  • Heals.co.uk - London based home furnishings store.

   

• Catalogue stores

  • Argos.co.uk - online version of the store.

   

• High Street stores

  • Woolworths - the high street electrical, clothing, toys, garden and home furnishings retailer.
  • Boots.com - the high street perfume, beauty and electrical goods retailer.
  • Mothercare - baby and infant clothing and accessories.

   

• DIY/Home Furnishings

  • B&Q - Large UK DIY superstore chain.

  • Homebase.co.uk - DIY superstore offering garden, home decorating, lighting and furnishing products. Offline over Christmas 2003.

  • MFI.co.uk - Kitchen, bathroom and bedroom finishing and accessories.

   

• Books

  • Amazon.co.uk - large book retailer
  • The Bookplace Ltd - computer related bookseller, also sells business books.

   

• CDs and DVDs

  See the UK mp3 players page for advice on buying  cheap CDs and DVDs.

   

• Online DVD Rentals

  See the MP3 Players page for DVD rental companies.

   

• Shopping Directories

  • Dmoz.org lists thousands of shop in the UK shopping category (see google.com's version of this category).
  • Yahoo has a category dedicated to shopping_and_services.

   

• Consumer Information

  An article from the Guardian on the 25th March 2006 that I thought interesting.
  Theoretically, you've not just got a one-year manufacturer's warranty with an electronic item...

  Faulty goods? You've still got rights when the guarantee runs out

  "Shoppers are being sold short when expensive electrical goods break down. If a TV or fridge packs up just one day after an initial 
  one-year guarantee, customers are told they have to pay for the repair - but the truth is that retailers may be liable for up to six 
  years."
  
  "[The Sale of Goods Act] says goods must last a reasonable time - and that can be anything up to six years from the date of purchase"
  http://money.guardian.co.uk/howtocomplain/story/0,,1738830,00.html
  
  The newpaper page itself has a table from Which? that suggests that items such as washing machines and TVs should last upwards of 5 
  years.

  Office of Fair Trading- Consumer Information - details of your consumer rights, including information on your rights when shopping from home.

  Consumer Direct - DTI's portal containing information and advice for online consumers.

  Trading Standards Central consumer protection information maintained by the Trading Standards Institute.

  Dmoz UK Consumer Information category.