Life on the warehouse floor of Manchester's lost 'Amazon of its day' shopping giant
A Manchester mail order business was once mong Britain's biggest names, serving as a pre-internet Amazon-style home shopping giant.
By 1933, it was the leading mail order business in the UK with a single catalogue, Great Universal. A year earlier, a young man called Isaac Wolfson had joined the group as merchandise controller. In the 1960s, the company expanded its influence in Europe purchasing several mail order businesses in Holland, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany. With thousands of people working in its mail order warehouses across the UK, its pre-internet operation could be compared to that of an Amazon of its day.
During the late 1980s, the face of home shopping began to change. Credit, which had always been the big draw for consumers to home shopping, had become widely available and the emergence of a new breed of discount stores began to impact hard on GUS.Photo gallery: A day at the GUS warehouse in Ardwick in 1967
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