Oh my word! This has brought the memories flooding back. But what a super resource to use in business lessons - at worst your students will be just curious at the stuff that we (and I include myself) used to buy from the Argos Catalogue in 1985…

Here is the link to the Flickr photostream of the entire Argos catalogue which has been scanned into an image photostream.

You’ll be much more creative than me in terms of how it might be used in the business classroom. I jotted down a few ideas (below) - tweet me at @tutor2u with any more ideas.

Brand survivors - which brands have survived from 1985 until the present day?

Innovation - pick a category and examine how much products have changed through innovation (and have some fun looking at those early console games…)

Pricing - how have prices changed for broadly similar products (e.g. duvets)