>perhaps even allow me to reserve-and-collect Argos style then that'd do
>>for me as I appreciate cannot always have every item sat their waiting >>for me. >
> That would be really handy if it worked. If however it's like halfords
> then don't bother :-) 4 orders over a period of a couple of months
> across two different stores. Turn up each time and they wander around
> the shop looking for the item on the shelves before deciding they don't
> have it all. Completely useless.
That happened to me the only time I tried it with PC World (I was desperate, it was Christmas Eve and I wanted to play with a new toy but needed an extra hard disk, OK?).
It even happened to me at Argos; the stock control for that item was screwed and they didn't have any.