Argos has opened the first of its small-format digital concept stores in Liverpool One and Cheapside, London.

The 3,000 sq ft stores are significantly smaller than a typical 15,000 sq ft Argos shop and have been designed in the retailer’s new digital format.

The stores will be supplied several times a day from nearby larger stores as part of Argos’ ‘hub and spoke’ strategy.

Customers can browse the entire online range and if the product is in stock in the hub store, can order it for same or next day delivery to the smaller spoke store.

Argos’s digital stores have replaced laminated catalogues with iPads. The first to open was its existing Old Street store in east London, last year.

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