Overview
- Comet, which relaunched Monday, has gone live at comet.co.uk as an online-only electricals marketplace rather than a stocked retailer.
- The site lists more than one million products from around 2,500 third‑party sellers and is supported by a reported £10 million investment.
- The relaunched Comet does not hold inventory and routes every purchase to the merchants that list on the platform so Comet acts as a sales channel and trusted brand.
- Cas Paton says the business is exploring click‑and‑collect partnerships that could put the Comet name back on high‑street sites in some form, but no physical stores have reopened.
- Comet was founded in 1933 and collapsed in 2012 after operating roughly 236 stores and leaving thousands unemployed, and the relaunch aims to tap nostalgia and a specialist focus to compete with large e‑commerce players and help budget‑conscious shoppers find household electricals.