1970s Supermarket | Shopping in the 1970s | Tesco | Time for business | 1977
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We take a look inside Tesco's Edmonton in North London. These clips were specially filmed by the team from 'Time for Business'
First shown: 1977
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When ''pasta'' was exotic.
Arrrr the good old days when the shelf’s were actually packed before you started your shopping, nowadays they stock the shelf’s while you shop it’s like an obstacle course. 😉
Probably because demand is higher these days
A majority of replenishment is done overnight these day's!
@@tonyrenz6666 I very nearly had my Ankle broken the other day, by some snotty 18 year old, pulling a folk lift truck thing at 25mph, it’s a mine field in supermarkets today.
@@buddha1736 Very true, with litigation as it is today, i'm surprised they would risk collisions with the public, i've seen children knocked over by food racks being pushed in to restock shelves.
The plural of shelf is shelves. You never use an apostrophe to form a plural. The word shelf's means something belong to a shelf. Like the shelf's edge.
Yes very good days when you could switch the labels from a cheap product onto a more expensive one and get instant discount (apparently)ha ha
Hahaha yup
Been there done that. My best was in 1976 in Woolco in cwmbran when the had a carbon fibre fishing rod that was in stock fancied my eye and as a skint apprentice I switched the labels from that expensive rod (£40 iirc) to a label for about £3.50 from a cheap Shakespeare branded rod! Ah happy days! 😀
i wish they had filmed much more. what someone puts in their trolley, what range of items was on a shelf, the brands the costs and the range of different types of items. would be a better document. i saw one woman pushing her items in a box and i wondered if plastic bags were not used, then next woman was using plastic bags. also the queue was so long nowadays there are so many tills, and even more self serve. supermarkets were maybe not as large then.
Back then boxes were used more till as well as woven mesh bags that you use over and over, plastic bags were starting to be used a bit more though but they took off in the 80s
its like supermarkets encouraged recycling by offering the cardboard boxes, now it's "want a bag for life" with their branding, i turn mine inside out, staff look at me like "wtf?".. i give them that look of "my bag, my way"
@@CallMeMrRook As someone who worked in Waitrose years I ago, I can tell you the staff really don't care how you use your bag. They don't get paid enough to care.
One of the main differences between then and now is opening hours. Supermarkets back then didn't stay open anywhere near as long (staying open till 8pm was considered "late") and they didn't open at all on Sundays. Many people used to have "shopping time" off work to do their shopping because the shops closed so early. Many shops also used to have "half day" on Wednesday and close at lunch time without reopening until Thursday, and then only open on Saturday mornings.
@@CallMeMrRook that’s just strange
I find gobbets like these from the late 20th c. much more fascinating than older history. Supermarket shopping aint changed much really.
I remember those old mechanical tills, and the rattling noises they made - probably as noisy as the old typing pools in offices
Largely made redundant in the 1980s when computerised tills were introduced, and now its all barcodes and bank cards, where back then, it was nearly all cash with use of cheques and credit cards in the minority, and debit cards would not arrive until the 1990s
Except the prices
@@melgrant7404 - with heavy inflation on the 1970s, and not much changed today
@@melgrant7404 : )
@@Keithbarber Think I post-dated those, just. I know the ones you mean, though. I loved them. I must been in to them then, as I recall ordering a Fischer-Price till from Santa, one Christmas. Just dying to bash those buttons, I was!
Wow looking back at my childhood during social distancing makes this footage freaky.
What on earth. That is NOT the norm. Ignore what you’ve been through it’s all an agenda
Fasinating, like actually going back in time 🤗
Things were just the same when I shopped at Tesco in the 2000s.
Have you moved abroad? Tesco doesn’t look the same as then and didn’t look the same in the 2000s either.
THAT IS A BUSY STORE! It's packed.
Stores were large, but the long queues were due to the fact that every single items price had to be put in manually by hand (you saw the guy putting a price sticker onto every single tin) - thís is before barcodes and electronic scanners were goods are scanned in a second.
Boxes were used for heavier items ánd to save on paper bags - plastic bags only started to make an appearance then - also paper bags would tear easily & everything would fall out. Still mis those days - those ladies were FAST at the tills, but it still took longer than now.
The cashiers also had to work out how much change to give in their heads. They had to know what they were doing and needed a brain to do it with.
@@atnumbersixty341 unlike nowadays
In Holland you can take cardboard boxes for your stuff, much better than plastic bags
Also worth remembering that the shops weren't open anywhere near as long back then, and half days on Wednesdays were common. Many of the queues were because of people rushing to do their shopping during the very restricted opening hours many of the shops had back then.
The last year of the old pound note - before they introduced the smaller ugly ones. I'm surprised we still had the 1/2p coin in 1977.
Fascinating but why no sound ??? ☹️
This probably had a voiceover only on its original broadcast. Unless someone uploads the 'Time for Business' episode this featured in, we won't know for sure.
I wonder what those strange, flat, round things were that the check lady was giving to customers.
What? You mean money? I don’t get what you’re on about
Why are you pretending you don’t know what money is? Weird
What is a check lady? Is it an American term for the cashier working on the till? never heard it before.
@@zeddeka I meant to write check out lady.
I actually like those days better!
Toen was geluk nog heel gewoon!
Toen was geluk nog heel gewoon!
It surprises me to see so much people look back with joy and say they miss the 70s. Well I guess if you were only a kid back then you were too young to notice how terrible that decade was for England aha. All I remember is the bad... meat shortages, economy crash, power shortages and the oil crisis. The 60s were so fun, colourful and joyful and here comes this brown, dull depressing decade that wiped all the colour out of clothing, furniture and tv shows. The 70s were DULL
It's like the old saying goes - the older you get, the better the past becomes. You're right - the 70s were absolutely awful in many, many ways (as were the 80s and the 90s). People basically just want to be young again and kid themselves the past was somehow better.
Imagine all shit and e numbers in that processed food before the laws came in
I cant believe these people lived without wifi and video games...
And could stand in a queue without needing to get a mobile phone out.
I cant believe why we need it
@@stevesrover 'without needing' ? they didn't exist, so that makes zero sense. Are you seriously trying to argue that if they had existed then then people would somehow have been different? Don't make me laugh. If you don't like modern technology, what are you doing on youtube?
@@LR_84 get off youtube then
Why is it so busy? Were they starving!!!!!!! This is manic!
Back then, supermarkets tended to shut at 5:30pm in the evenings apart from Fridays when they might have shut at 8pm. They were probably shut all day on Sundays, so there was less time to go food shopping.
Could have been something to do with that, but it’s a bit of a guess.
Supermarkets back then didn't stay open anywhere near as long (staying open till 8pm was considered exceptionally "late") and they didn't open at all on Sundays. Many people used to have "shopping time" off work to do their shopping because the shops closed so early. Many shops also used to have "half day" on Wednesday and close at lunch time without reopening until Thursday, and then only open on Saturday mornings.
Supermarkets still get manic ? Have you ever been shopping in your life
@@zeddeka that’s ridiculous I can’t believe that used to be the norm!
@@handsoffmycactus2958if you think thats bad, banks were even worse
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Sparkle O'Whore Top marks for trying ,now if only I could think of a way to reposition my name......any suggestions?
@@briansparks8528 thank you, I'm shameless! 😊 I'll get back to you regarding your name ❤️😂
Get ready for all the racist comments from the last few brexit types
@VOLVOS60BLOKE Why don't you p1$s off and let people enjoy the video!
Wait,... Volvo was right! I can see them coming over the hill, RACISTS....THOUSANDS OF EM!!
twat.
Yawn,💤💤💤
And you were the one who mentioned Brexit and racism :)
Talk about a bad loser 🙄