Selected Online Stores for your UK Shopping ...

Dozens of new online stores seem to spring up almost every day; it's sometimes difficult to know which ones are worth visiting and which ones you should avoid. While our list of recommended stores is not yet a large one, you can be certain that the few stores we do recommend are well worth the visit.

Additions Direct Online Catalogue

Additions Direct is one of several online catalogue shops operated by Littlewoods Shop Direct, several others of which are listed below. Filled to the brim with latest fashion and home goods, Additions Direct - which used to be known as Argos Additions - is one store that's well worth spending some money at.

Ambrose Wilson Online Catalogue

Shopping with Ambrose Wilson online catalogue store is just as easy as enjoyable as shopping with any other of the JD Williams catalogue brands, with a huge selection of home goods and fashion wear to suit all tastes. Especially compelling, as with all the JD Williams catalogue stores, is the ability to "buy now, pay later," and to spread the cost.

Argos Online Catalogue

Argos online store, much like Argos high-street catalogue shops, offers an eclectic range of products from boots and shoes to salt & pepper shakers, televisions and much more. The Argos website now contains the full range of products that customers could previously find at the Argos Additions website.

Avon Cosmetics

At Avon online store you can buy cosmetics, skincare and beauty products as well as make-up brushes, lingerie, jewellery and essential accessories. Discover a range of exciting offers on Avon beauty products, including Avon's Supershock Intense Mascara, world-famous Skin So Soft Dry Oil Body Spray, and great a selection of great gifts.

B&Q DIY Direct, UK

B&Q DIY Direct online store is as simple to browse as your local B&Q DIY store, and offers not just the same great products - but also many more - and all at the same value-for-money prices that B&Q DIY are well-known for.

Choice Online Catalogue

Choice Catalogue, as per several others listed here, is one of a group of online catalogues operated by Littlewoods Shop Direct. Choice catalogue (previously known as Choice for You) has operated a successful UK mail-order catalogue business for many years. Providing customers with everything from fashion to electricals, garden products, and more, Choice catalogue is always worth a visit.

K & Co. (Formerly Empire Stores Catalogue)

K & Co is the new destination for Empire Stores, having recently re-branded. It is also one of the several online stores operated by Littlewoods Shop Direct, with Empire Stores having been acquired from Redcats group in 2008. Offering a huge range of products, and an easy-payment scheme, Empire Stores new site at K&Co is one of the most popular online destinations for shopping on credit. Why pay now when you can pay later!

K & Co. (formerly Great Universal Catalogue)

K & Co is the new destination for Great Universal catalogue store, having recently re-branded. The new destination for Great Universal, at K&Co offers the same wide variety of products that you would find at the Great Universal mail-order catalogue store, plus much more. Having previously incorporated the Great Universal Essentials website, you'll find a huge selection of womenswear and home goods, and the buy-now-pay-later service is just one good reason to choose K&Co over the competition.

JD Williams Online Catalogue

JD Williams online catalogue store is one of nearly two dozen catalogue brands operated by JD Williams, and you can reach all of the various JD Williams stores - including Oxendales, Fashion World, and others - from the JD Williams home page. Offering easy flexible payment options, and affordable financing, making even the biggest purchases at JD Williams becomes simple.

John Lewis Online Shopping

John Lewis online store, operated by The John Lewis Partnership, is the ideal site to find all manner of home essentials, electrical products, and fashion too. However, alongside all of the usual products that you expect to find at John Lewis, you'll also find many additional categories, including a wide selection of gifts, including a range of gorgeous flowers and plants.

Kays Online Catalogue (now K&Co)

K&Co is now the new name for Kays Catalogue store. Like Additions Direct, Kays Catalogue is one of several online catalogue shops operated by Littlewoods Shop Direct, and has operated a popular mail-order catalogue business for years. Offering everything from clothes to home goods and garden products, K&Co - which also incorporates the old Kays Lifestyle brand - is always worth a visit.

Littlewoods Online Catalogue

Littlewoods Home Shopping is just one of the Littlewoods brands with an online presence; the other being Littlewoods Direct, as listed below. While it may seem odd that Littlewoods would have two similarly named websites, they do offer slightly different products sometimes, and also different prices too, so it's always time well spent to check each site before making your final purchase.

Very Catalogue Store (formerly Littlewoods Direct Catalogue)

Littlewoods Direct has now been re-branded, and is now known as the Very brand. However, the main Littlewoods catalogue store is also still available, as listed above. In fact, Very Catalogue now incorporates the brands previously known as Littlewoods Direct, Littlewoods Index, Littlewoods Extra and Littlewoods LxDirect - but you can rest confident that they are, in fact, the exact same company, with little having changed except the name, and still offering some excellent deals.

Isme Catalogue Store (formerly Marshall Ward Online Catalogue)

Marshall Ward has now been re-branded, and has been incorporated into the Shop Direct Isme brand. However, shopping with the new Marshall Ward online store at Isme is just as easy as shopping with the old Marshall Ward mail-order catalogue and catalogue website; simply find what you're looking for - or search by product code if you already know it - and head along to the checkout when you're ready. And, with an Isme account you can take advantage of the Littlewoods buy-now-pay-later service.

Marks & Spencer

Few brands are as well known as Marks & Spencer (better known to many simply as Marks & Sparks or M&S); with hundreds of stores throughout the UK, M&S also has a formidable online presense too, providing not only all the products you'll find in any M&S high-street store, but also many other online only products too.

Samsonite Online Shopping, UK

Although Samsonite online store doesn't yet offer that same great leathery aroma that greets you in a Samsonite high-street store, it is just as much fun to browse, and offers at least as many luggage products - and often more - as you'll find in any Samsonite store on the high street. As Samsonite afficiandos will atest, when it comes to good quality bags and luggage, there are few brands better than Samsonite.

Screwfix Direct DIY, UK

Screwfix Direct online DIY store is as easy to browse as your Screwfix DIY catalogue, and offers the same great products, at the same competitive prices that Screwfix DIY are known for. As regular Screwfix customers know, Screwfix Direct DIY compares very favourably to stores such as B&Q DIY, Focus DIY, Homebase DIY, and Wickes, amongst others, for both product quality and price.

Tesco Direct

Tesco online store offers everything you would expect, plus a whole lot more. With everything from groceries to greenhouses, flowers to flourescent lights, fashion, electricals, and much else, the Tesco Direct online store rightly deserves "one stop shop" status, since it really is hard to figure out something that you can't buy online at Tesco Direct.