IMPORTANT NOTE:
You do NOT have to register to read, post, listen or contribute. If you simply wish to remain fully anonymous, you can still contribute.
|
Home  Forums |
|
|
|
|
Topic History of: Boots adverts
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
|
Rich |
Green Man wrote:
No way was Quality Streets tins that size.
I do remember they were very nice treats to have but now they taste nothing but sugar.
Oh yes they were GM. I have proof of those tins. I have retrieved one from in storage that was probably bought by the family in that era. We used to have a tin each year. The tin is 2.5kg (2,500 grams) I remember using the huge quality street tin to store mince pies in for a few years after. It's because they've shrunk so digustingly low nowadays that the normal tin looks so massive from the late 70's/early 80's period.
The current plastic regular Quality Street tubs are this year only 600g meagre grams. That is not even a quarter the size of a tin in the late 70's. Only a few days ago I heard the latest wheeze, they've now reduced the size of the actual individual chocolates in the tub too, with 10% knocked off that purple one with the nut inside. So you've been getting ever fewer sweets for years and now they're at shrinking the actual sweets themselves.
The 1978 2.5kg QS tins at £4.99p in the Woollies advert, the regular size of the time, would now cost £26.55p per tin this Christmas. |
|
Green Man |
No way was Quality Streets tins that size.
I do remember they were very nice treats to have but now they taste nothing but sugar. |
|
Green Man |
Woolies did sell decent stuff.
Sometimes, they would have an obscure title. I do remember picking up several albums to take to the counter. They would put the wrong CD in the cases, or they couldn't find the CDs, Our Price were the same.
I think the only Chevron cassette I owned was The Troggs - Wild Thing. Chevron I think were another budget label that dealt mainly with classical, easy listening and soundalikes. We couldn't away from James Galway.
It was easy to sneer at MFP and Pickwick titles. Pickwick did get some decent licences for compilations and reissues like Blondie - Atomic, Ten Years After, Mike Oldfield, Steeleye Span, Lindisfarne and Rory Gallager. Not forgetting they did use fake stereo on some Johnny Cash compilations which is an interesting concept.
I just remember seeing stacks of their Top Of The Pops soundalikes. How people were duped into getting them is beyond me.
MFP, were hit and miss. I didn't hide them as some people did, everyone I knew had something on MFP. The quality was not always great but they did a good job with a Cliff Bennett & Rebel Rousers compilation they added some B sides.
From memory, the MFP Mind Games reissue was very muffled, the same with their Beach Boys releases. I know their Glen Campbell stuff, was terrible they crammed too much onto one record which caused a lot of inner distortion. I have no problems with their Procol Harum compilations, which I still have to this day. It's amazing what we salvaged over the years.
Robbie or Honey might have a better memory than me about Woolworths records. |
|
Rich |
Pay attention to the size of these Quality Street tins from early in the 1978 Woollies Christmas advert!
That's what the annual Christmas tin (not plastic) should damned well look like, 2.5kg.
youtu.be/2CIdTPlKRLc?si=4G7vo04AhszyyPo6 |
|
Rich |
Remember when advertisers made their TV adverts have their own memorable tune to go with it, a good example being Shake 'n' Vac which must have worked because it came out in 1979, that same ad was broadcast for ten years after it was made and people never forgot either the tune or the product, or even the visual performance in it with that lady, proven by the fact I'm mentioning it right now, over 40 years later. I just don't know anybody that actually used it mind you. My mum didn't and she hoovered the carpets every single day throughout the home.
I really dislike it when they just pick a well known rock or pop track and go with that instead, the labours of someone else's work. Actually, as this is a Boots thread maybe it's a surprise they have never picked up on this Adam Ant one from 1983, Puss 'n' Boots, which has the repeat line 'Boots' clearly at the start and then throughout.
youtu.be/k6zstmlOjLs?si=aeul_QZh3ubFMnhW
The trend in recent years to take songs and morph them into slow dreary dreamy female vocals is another tedious development I agree with you, as I do with this strange thing that has now developed where it's like there is some competition between the major retailers to do some overly sentimental, compulsory woke, over produced mini film of sorts which nearly always falls into the cliche snow falling or on the ground, which let's face it is only a feature of a very rare UK Christmas Eve and Day.
I still miss Woolworths, always went in there in the Christmas rush in Milton Keynes massive multi floor one and associate it with the hustle and bustle of the run up madness but in a nice way. They had some good adverts over the years for Christmas, and this one from 1981 is not one I can admit to remembering but it must have been consdered quite an impressive feat at the time to have secured all these huge stars in one single bumper long 2 minute advert. It looks expensive by early 80's standards to me, just the fee for all that lot, and as you can hear, they aactually made their own tune for it, a rubbish one but jolly enough and at least they tried. No memory of it though!
Woolworths - Have A Cracking Christmas Advert 1981 - youtu.be/1m_0ENIw4os?si=c4RnsrqnUf4TJRMN
Have you noticed that advertisers don't seem to like actually putting the price of the products into the adverts nowadays like they once did such as on this Woolies advert. The price is the important bit surely. |
|
|
|
|
