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I loved working for Wh Smiths great company 😊

Harry Potter meets Stephen Fry at 12.02.

Those ghastly uniforms….and Lady Di haircuts.

Love this nostalgia! Sadly the world has changed a lot, but the values are still the same! I made a video about how to get job at smiths: th-cam.com/video/jAI4H_yU6aM/w-d-xo.html

Is he your son

I was 6 back then. I miss the old type stores. The old orange cube logo, the fact that they used to sell music and a bigger section of books etc. Todays Smiths is not as good.

Boring boring retail...never again

BlumminELL the hayday of WHS what a disaster it has been for the last 25 or so years. I worked at WHS about 20 years ago and it was awful.

Just spotted the comment that 2:15 that is you :) did your store have a computer section by that time? As we now know it was November 1984. What ever happened to Kate (can't spell that surname)?

16:25 Could of used the unscripted real customer question :)

23 and she talks like she's in her 40s.

99% sure there is no such training like this in WHSmith anymore.

They had recently stripped out department managers by the time I joined in the mid-late 90s but the vision and values expressed in the video were still what made WHS a reliable store and desirable employer. Merchandising had been centralised so stores had less flexibility which was frustrating when we didn’t have the stock. But the ability to learn and improve yourself and the business was recognised, valued and rewarded by WHS. My store was a family and I enjoyed being there so much. They helped me through some really rough times. Today it is sadly a shop I try and avoid - breaks my heart to go back to my old store. It’s barren of life and soul.

I’ve landed an interview for tomorrow and browsed through TH-cam and came across this

My sister Kate circa 1984

A time before the corporations took over, the high st these days is a ghost town, the demise of the west,

I have an idea this was around 1983 to 1984. It is cheesy but brilliant as it is a snapshot of the early 80's. W H Smith used to sell quite a lot of stuff back then! RMC - The Cave brought me here as they have built a small retro style shop as it would have been back then.

Kate: “I’d like you to put the BBC Micro and Electron games at the bottom. No - right at the bottom. Yes, that’s it, just above the ground. Now I’d like you to fill this shelf, this shelf and this shelf with the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 games”

Great upload!

7:38 guarantee that no longer happens.

5:25 original BigTrak in the background.

Kate, too posh for WHSmith.

The Intro theme sounds like the National Lottery theme

I had one of those hedgehog pencil holders shown at 4:36 Everyone had one but lord knows why, they held hardly anything! Wonderful trip back in time. I can almost smell the store from back then.

All very prim and proper in those days.

Blimey! That takes me back. I was a management trainee back in 1981 and got to branch assistant manager. 1981-89

Wished they'd gone to the computer section with all the Spectrums, Amstrad (I believe was released in time for this). Assume they had one, we had one in the Ealing branch.

Why does Colin look very much like a Colin? Oh god, he sounds like a Colin too....

Must have been 1980 the bit where They are checking books umberto echo book was released then, these nostalgic videos are amazing

The date: at 2:47 that issue of Motor magazine is week ending November 24, 1984.

What year is this?

Hi Alex. I'm interested in using a clip of this in a film I'm making. Do you own it?

My dad says hi and thanks for uploading this Alex. Great watch!

You die of regrets, game over.....brilliant!

Well done x

Right on Alex, you have an awesome spirit.