I love these wonderful uploads from days gone past…1975 this was first shown, I was only a baby! Also: What wonderful speaking voices these people had.
Yes. Standards were much higher. Dumbing down to the lowest common denominator effectively came in during the mid-1990s along with political correctness, diversity and equality, and society is much poorer for it. Just listen to newsreaders from back before then and you'll hear that there was more gravitas.
Tiny glimpse of orange nylon shopping bag, with the stripes and metal handles... and i was back in the 70s. Loads had those. National housewives association, what are the chances now...
Directors of these stores would never come on a TV programme now and probably would have no real interest or background in retail either. They're just a figure head now on multimillion pound salaries.
Good point. Likewise with politicians, in the sense that in the 70s & 80s MPS would go on TV and be able to fully explain their depts policies. Now we have fields of wheat & soundbites!
@@markwatkins8309Is the problem that we (or at least the media) want soundbites rather than detailed discussions? Even Question Time is mostly platitudes these days
Hilarious that you think being "well spoken" in a 50 year old style means something. If it did, Britain wouldn't have been in a state of utter collapse in the 1970s.
"The whole game is far too sophisticated." I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, you know, but if one store has something selling cheaper than the one next door, I'll just buy at the cheaper store won't I? (Cue the theme song..) Let's go bargain hunting, yeah!
They were incredibly expensive back then Because people were paid massively less. Multiply the prices you see here by 13 to get the equivalent in 2025 money
My mother stopped wearing headscarves in the 1980s - in her late 30s. I think it had something to do with keeping up the hair-do in a time when people bathed only once a week.
5:22 - the look of utter contempt towards the woman. I also think things are exactly the same now e.g., people (men AND women) are supposedly confused today as to what is the best offer for, say, ketchup, when there are many different brands and various sizes for each brand, at different prices. Yes the label may well have '£x amount per 100g' to guide and assist you, but often the labels are too small, or people just don't have the time to look properly. It would also help greatly if the supermarket staff weren't so lazy and didn't put the wrong product in the wrong place on the shelves, so when somebody thinks the offer label below the ketchup is correct, and the price of that ketchup according to the label below is, say, £1.00, but it's actually for a smaller size bottle, or even a completely different product, they believe that ketchup to be £1 as per the label below, but actually it's £3.50 or whatever. But at the end of the day it's simple economics as far as I'm concerned. People are too busy and rushed nowadays to pay enough attention to things, but I also think they're lazy and just don't use their brains. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, my mum, who didn't have much of an education, was as sharp as a pin when it came to finances and shopping - she knew the price, and worth, of everything, and paid all the bills and worked out all the money side of things. She knew EXACTLY what was what, and as she did indeed have a very limited budget, every penny counted. I used to go shopping with her back then, so her ways rubbed off on me and I have done our family shopping for 25+ years, and I too know exactly what is going on, and what the best items are, price-wise, versus weight or quantity. If one pays enough attention, it's scandalous how often we are overcharged for incorrect labelling, or expired 'offers', where they've left the incorrect 'offer' price on the label as it ended the week before. I'm like a hawk in supermarkets as they're always getting things wrong. I would urge all people that do the shopping, pay very close attention to the labels, and ALWAYS check your receipts! The Waitrose guy was however right in that housewives back then were no fools generally - most knew what was what, and did excellent jobs of running the household and budgeting properly. Supermarkets - Ripping us off since 1975. Well actually, well before then.
A much more simpler world. No smartphones and no self serve checkouts! I wasn’t even born then but it sure does look better then to now. One thing that has not changed tho, is snobby Waitrose
The world was a far better place in the 70's. Housewives keeping the home and being the shoppers. Men work, wives keep the home. Nowadays it's not even just men and women never mind normal people getting married.
Take your head out of the past and VERY old fashioned thinking!!!! It’s a good thing women get to work and have equal rights to us men! Not every woman wants to stay at home and cook & clean!!!! Men should be cleaning the house too!!
@Jimbo There were 'abnormal' people back then as well. Gay and trans people existed in those days as well, they just weren't as open about it back then. Kenneth Williams and Bruce Jenner were born long before the 70s for example.
I love these wonderful uploads from days gone past…1975 this was first shown, I was only a baby!
Also: What wonderful speaking voices these people had.
Yes. Standards were much higher. Dumbing down to the lowest common denominator effectively came in during the mid-1990s along with political correctness, diversity and equality, and society is much poorer for it. Just listen to newsreaders from back before then and you'll hear that there was more gravitas.
Tiny glimpse of orange nylon shopping bag, with the stripes and metal handles... and i was back in the 70s. Loads had those.
National housewives association, what are the chances now...
Directors of these stores would never come on a TV programme now and probably would have no real interest or background in retail either. They're just a figure head now on multimillion pound salaries.
Good point. Likewise with politicians, in the sense that in the 70s & 80s MPS would go on TV and be able to fully explain their depts policies. Now we have fields of wheat & soundbites!
@@markwatkins8309Is the problem that we (or at least the media) want soundbites rather than detailed discussions? Even Question Time is mostly platitudes these days
All of them so wonderfully spoken. What on earth happened to this country.
2nd Timothy Chapter 3, 2nd Corinthians 4:4-5, Matthew Chapter 24, 66 books of the Holy Bible.
Hilarious that you think being "well spoken" in a 50 year old style means something. If it did, Britain wouldn't have been in a state of utter collapse in the 1970s.
the good old days, wish i could go back.
fabulous
"The whole game is far too sophisticated."
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, you know, but if one store has something selling cheaper than the one next door, I'll just buy at the cheaper store won't I?
(Cue the theme song..)
Let's go bargain hunting, yeah!
And what are you looking for in your expert?😂
Enjoyed this. All very serious about shopping
Fleas on a sheep dog eh? That's a different analogy 😊
Those prices today certainly would be special!
They were incredibly expensive back then Because people were paid massively less. Multiply the prices you see here by 13 to get the equivalent in 2025 money
@@zeddeka That's why I said they'd be special
The patronising tone of the Tesco gaffer.
Make Housewives Great Again.
"No..I didnt bother..I went straight in!"
😂
No nonsense🤣
That Sandra need's a right good night out!!
I think the vision mixer must have dozed off - That Reynolds guy was talking off-camera for several seconds before the picture cut to him !
Tuppence off. Very flash.
She didn't want specials, she wanted stability! Complain about anything some people!
With 25 percent inflation, of course some people wanted stability!
Mclaurin.. he was Jack Cohen's chosen one...transformed Tesco into a monster!
When did female pensioners stop wearing headscarves?
Used till far into the 90s overhere in the Netherlands. Their hair in combination with the rain made them a usual sight.
My mother stopped wearing headscarves in the 1980s - in her late 30s. I think it had something to do with keeping up the hair-do in a time when people bathed only once a week.
When they gave up on Islam!
5:22 - the look of utter contempt towards the woman. I also think things are exactly the same now e.g., people (men AND women) are supposedly confused today as to what is the best offer for, say, ketchup, when there are many different brands and various sizes for each brand, at different prices. Yes the label may well have '£x amount per 100g' to guide and assist you, but often the labels are too small, or people just don't have the time to look properly. It would also help greatly if the supermarket staff weren't so lazy and didn't put the wrong product in the wrong place on the shelves, so when somebody thinks the offer label below the ketchup is correct, and the price of that ketchup according to the label below is, say, £1.00, but it's actually for a smaller size bottle, or even a completely different product, they believe that ketchup to be £1 as per the label below, but actually it's £3.50 or whatever. But at the end of the day it's simple economics as far as I'm concerned. People are too busy and rushed nowadays to pay enough attention to things, but I also think they're lazy and just don't use their brains. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, my mum, who didn't have much of an education, was as sharp as a pin when it came to finances and shopping - she knew the price, and worth, of everything, and paid all the bills and worked out all the money side of things. She knew EXACTLY what was what, and as she did indeed have a very limited budget, every penny counted. I used to go shopping with her back then, so her ways rubbed off on me and I have done our family shopping for 25+ years, and I too know exactly what is going on, and what the best items are, price-wise, versus weight or quantity. If one pays enough attention, it's scandalous how often we are overcharged for incorrect labelling, or expired 'offers', where they've left the incorrect 'offer' price on the label as it ended the week before. I'm like a hawk in supermarkets as they're always getting things wrong. I would urge all people that do the shopping, pay very close attention to the labels, and ALWAYS check your receipts! The Waitrose guy was however right in that housewives back then were no fools generally - most knew what was what, and did excellent jobs of running the household and budgeting properly. Supermarkets - Ripping us off since 1975. Well actually, well before then.
Shops still try and mislead you, for example bigger packs aren’t always cheaper.
sometimes they are not even bigger
A much more simpler world. No smartphones and no self serve checkouts! I wasn’t even born then but it sure does look better then to now. One thing that has not changed tho, is snobby Waitrose
Multiply the prices you see here by 13 to get the equivalent in 2025 money.
Tuppence off. I reckon folk wouldve taken a 20 minute detour for that.
Bring back the 1/2 penny
Housewives? Single women and men didn’t eat in the 70s
The world was a far better place in the 70's. Housewives keeping the home and being the shoppers.
Men work, wives keep the home.
Nowadays it's not even just men and women never mind normal people getting married.
Take your head out of the past and VERY old fashioned thinking!!!! It’s a good thing women get to work and have equal rights to us men! Not every woman wants to stay at home and cook & clean!!!! Men should be cleaning the house too!!
Hahaha…and I s’pose you’d like the Victorian times even better???
@@jotttn na not that far back, just the 70s when the world and the people in it were normal
@Jimbo
There were 'abnormal' people back then as well. Gay and trans people existed in those days as well, they just weren't as open about it back then. Kenneth Williams and Bruce Jenner were born long before the 70s for example.
Casual sexism. I don't miss it.
Most of the food on special these days in 2024 is rubbish. Biscuits, chips, lollies, sugary drinks, sugary desserts That's not food.
Fem-splaining at its finest.