Argos is widening its Trusted Sellers marketplace to take in health and beauty, gifting and electricals. The aim is to have more than 130,000 third-party products on the site by the end of 2026.
There are more than 70,000 listed now. Argos trialled the marketplace with 40 partners in July, starting with furniture, home and toys.
Every seller is vetted before going live. The application form asks for VAT and company numbers, turnover, how many products you plan to list, typical delivery times, whether stock sits in a UK warehouse, which other marketplaces you’re on and how you’d connect your catalogue.
Sellers ship orders themselves using their own couriers. Shoppers still collect Nectar points on these orders, but Argos Pay and most gift cards can’t be used.
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Returns go back by post or courier, not over the counter at an Argos store, and Click & Collect isn’t offered. Order queries go straight to the seller. Argos asks customers to keep its own support team out of it.
Personalised and made-to-order items already appear in Argos’ Trusted Seller returns rules, listed with food, flowers and opened hygiene products as things customers can’t send back.
There’s no public fee schedule for sellers.
Argos first outlined its curated marketplace plans in February. In July, Sainsbury’s agreed a £120m sale of Argos to Swift Partners. It had paid £1.4bn for the business in 2016.
