The Great Universal Essentials website has now integrated with the Great Universal website, also operated by Littlewoods, where an extensive range of similar products can be found. For your convenience, all Great Universal Essentials links on our site now transport you to the Great Universal website.Great Universal Essentials is one of a number of catalogues operated by the Littlewoods Shop Direct group, and is operated separately to its well-known sister catalogue,
Great Universal, also owned by Littlewoods Shop Direct. The names make for easy confusion, but the two catalogues operate entirely separate websites and have their own distinct mail-order catalogues too, although the products offered are very similar.
The main product categories available at Great Universal Essentials include: Women, Men, Kids, Sports, Home & Garden, Electronics, Appliances, Toys & Games and Jewellery & Gifts. Fresh flowers are also often available to order from the website. In fact the same categories are available at the Great Universal website, and a quick glance will tell you that the two websites also look remarkably similar as well. However, as similar as the sites may look, the prices can often differ (as we checked this useful fact, we noted the exact same dress was available from the front page of the women’s section of each site with a £5 price difference.)
First-time buyers will usually find a discount on offer at Great Universal Essentials, as with many other catalogue brands, and has previously included 10% off first-time purchases, and also £15 off first-time purchases, but this can vary from time-to-time, although there’s generally some kind of handy discount, nonetheless, which is worth taking advantage of if you’ve not shopped with Great Essentials before.
The Great Universal Essentials website is a pretty simple website to navigate, and the menu options are nice and clear, with the clean, uncluttered interface providing easy navigation throughout the site. You can also take advantage of the Quick Order form as well, if you happen to have the accompanying mail-order catalogue, by simply entering the product references from the catalogue (which are the same in the catalogue as on the website). While prices tend to differ little, eagle-eyed shoppers may occasionally note a few differences between the paper-catalogue prices and the website prices, which is something worth keeping an eye out for.
As with most of the other catalogues in the Littlewoods Shop Direct family, Great Universal Essentials does extend credit to qualifying customers, and further details of this can be found below, and at the Great Universal Essential website. Your free Great Universal Essentials catalogue may, of course, also be requested from the website, though you should allow up to 14 days for delivery.
Great Universal Essentials is operated by Littlewoods Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited. Select the following link to see other catalogues from
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Great Universal Essentials may be contacted by post, by telephone, or by web-mail.
Subject to the usual credit checks, then Great Universal extends credit facilities to its customers, such that payments for purchases may be made over a period of time. Any purchases you make over £60 can be paid back, interest-free, over a period of a year, and with some selected purchases the credit period provided may be up to 5 years.
After your qualifying payments have reached £150, you will then start to receive cashback on future payments and, for every £10 you pay, you can opt to receive either £1.25 to spend in your catalogue or £1 cashback in your hand. Your latest monthly statement will show you the amount of cashback you have earned.
As with all credit arrangements, we strongly suggest that you only accept credit up to an amount which you know are easily able to repay, and to note that with some credit arrangements you may pay more for your goods than if you paid in full at the time of purchase.
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