at 0:09 remington pop corn makers at £19.95 expensive price for a cheap noveltie product and i'd only thaught that remington only made shavers but pop corn
@caxtonman - Agree, however it needs the Government to slap the likes of Tesco (and other mega retailers) down to size. For eample Tesco throwing a paddy when planning permission is denied on a new store or extention, for them to appeal and take it to the courts, so local councils are forced into retreat due to spiraling costs. This practice stinks, and Tesco should not be allowed to get away with it however big they are!
Re the Quality St, If you study the tins on sale these days you will find that they contain half the number of choccies! thats how they manage to keep the price at £4.99
I had one of those activitiy centres for my first christmas! (It might have been for my sister, as she was one and I was two months old!) Aww. I miss woolies.
Sad to see the Woolies ad now, bloody scumsucking banks not supporting them I suspect, I run my own retail business so I know! SUPPORT YOUR HIGH STREET SHOPS, otherwise all we will have left is the adverts to remind us of better times...
@caxtonman - Agree, however it needs the Government to slap the likes of Tesco (and other mega retailers) down to size. For eample Tesco throwing a paddy when planning permission is denied on a new store or extention, for them to appeal and take it to the courts, so local councils are forced into retreat due to spiraling costs. This practice stinks, and Tesco should not be allowed to get away with it however big they are!
@caxtonman - Agree, however it needs the Government to slap the likes of Tesco (and other mega retailers) down to size. For eample Tesco throwing a paddy when planning permission is denied on a new store or extention, for them to appeal and take it to the courts, so local councils are forced into retreat due to spiraling costs. This practice stinks, and Tesco should not be allowed to get away with it however big they are!
From TV Cream Website: It's the latest, greatest, ever more spectacular Woolworths Christmas show! Fronted by ringmaster Joe Brown, for reasons which remain unclear. As does the rationale of getting Lennie Bennett to extol the virtues of Old Spice and Frogger. Leslie Crowther shows up for the second year running, but Peter Powell's shoved out the Kid. We like the Burlington Shirts conga. Not forgetting the glamourous Rula Lenska.
We lost our woolies today here in Newtownards, Norhtern Ireland. People can praise Tesco and Asda all they like, but in our darkest day of the troubles, tesco and Asda dint not want to know that Northern Ireland exsited. Woolies and Woolco however were always here, serving us well through our darkest days, I for one and I am not alone will miss this great store and all the fond memories it brings back, Thanks Woolies for over 50 Years in Newtownards.
Im only 37 and still have memorys going in to by my records and tapes,when id meet my girlfreind (now wife)id always say meet me outside woolworths,as it was in the centre of town...took my 7yr old boy in on saturday the last day of the store,and said this shop wont be here anymore after today he was sad and said where am i gonig to get my starwars figures from now,he being 7 and me being 37 had happy times in woolworths,good luck to all the staff in 2009
Damn i am so sad about this... WTF have we let happen? 70's and 80's children will miss this place. Well my daughter is not quite 2 yet so she won't rember how much she currently enjoys going to woolworths but i do.. I feel like crying everytime i wath these ads :(
you can be rest assured the dimse of woolworths will have a knock on effect on the high street, soon all we'll have left is the big supermarket chains!
I agree, it is very sad. I work for British Home Stores and thankfully we are ok, for now, but there aren't many of the old high street names left these days. First C&A, then Littlewoods, then MFI and now Woolies. It makes you wonder what the high street will look like in ten years time.
at 0:09 remington pop corn makers at £19.95 expensive price for a cheap noveltie product and i'd only thaught that remington only made shavers but pop corn
makers were one hit wonders like the soda stream
fizzy drinks makers at the time.
FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 4 months ago in playlist ADS
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FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 4 months ago
Fuckin hell, imagine getting your bird a handbag for 2 quid? That's not going down so well.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
frogger classic
jimbo69secret 1 year ago
Is it just me, or do some of these prices seem very high for 1983?
shrivel1 1 year ago
@shrivel1 new inventions m8t lol
jimbo69secret 1 year ago
£5.99 for a shirt? Was that neccessarily cheap for 1983?? :/
mistofoles 1 year ago
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There was a version of this advert that featured 5 time World Darts champion Eric Bristow.
allen1jeremy 1 year ago
There was a version of this advert that featured 5 time World Darts champion Eric Bristow.
allen1jeremy 1 year ago
There was a version of this advert that featured 5 time World Darts champion Eric Bristow.
allen1jeremy 1 year ago
lol, Woolworths, have to get some tapes at that price ;)
Can see the price then, vs now, some are cheap now !!! lol
mmichael0 1 year ago
Woolworths ran out of imagination and was tired and tacky for years. Could see it coming a mile off
pimmagrimm 1 year ago
Wow, this is a really cute advertisement! A little stereotyped, but whatever, it works. Hey, isn't Woolworth's now Foot Locker?
TheGameroomBlitz 1 year ago
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@caxtonman - Agree, however it needs the Government to slap the likes of Tesco (and other mega retailers) down to size. For eample Tesco throwing a paddy when planning permission is denied on a new store or extention, for them to appeal and take it to the courts, so local councils are forced into retreat due to spiraling costs. This practice stinks, and Tesco should not be allowed to get away with it however big they are!
Markjuk 1 year ago
lol....frogger
samartz 1 year ago
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RabidRaccoonUK 1 year ago
ive got that fisherprice toy somewhere!
Woshmistro 1 year ago
Fantastic blast from the past. Lovely seeing the way we were back then!
One thing I noticed - Quality Street for 4.99...amazing that they cost about the same now, 26 years on!! Something must be awry there surely lol! ;-)
Meinlondon 2 years ago
Re the Quality St, If you study the tins on sale these days you will find that they contain half the number of choccies! thats how they manage to keep the price at £4.99
billllythekid1969 2 years ago
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blackpoolprince 2 years ago
He loves you and so does Jesus.
flagemontana 2 years ago
Thank you. Brings back happy memories - how things have changed!
BNPCrusade 2 years ago
I had one of those activitiy centres for my first christmas! (It might have been for my sister, as she was one and I was two months old!) Aww. I miss woolies.
BrokenHalo07 2 years ago
Talk about overpricing! 80 quid for a kids keyboard! Jeez!
Muskateering 2 years ago
not being tacky doesn't equate to expensive or exclusive
nobblytanner 2 years ago
good to have ads like these recording just how tacky Woolies was.
nobblytanner 2 years ago
tacky? where the heck do you shop then? Harrods?
FabFM 2 years ago 6
Sad to see the Woolies ad now, bloody scumsucking banks not supporting them I suspect, I run my own retail business so I know! SUPPORT YOUR HIGH STREET SHOPS, otherwise all we will have left is the adverts to remind us of better times...
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Markjuk 1 year ago
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@caxtonman - Agree, however it needs the Government to slap the likes of Tesco (and other mega retailers) down to size. For eample Tesco throwing a paddy when planning permission is denied on a new store or extention, for them to appeal and take it to the courts, so local councils are forced into retreat due to spiraling costs. This practice stinks, and Tesco should not be allowed to get away with it however big they are!
Markjuk 1 year ago
@caxtonman - Agree, however it needs the Government to slap the likes of Tesco (and other mega retailers) down to size. For eample Tesco throwing a paddy when planning permission is denied on a new store or extention, for them to appeal and take it to the courts, so local councils are forced into retreat due to spiraling costs. This practice stinks, and Tesco should not be allowed to get away with it however big they are!
Markjuk 1 year ago
@Markjuk The council should also not be allowed to refuse planning to a shop because the councillors prefer another shop.
Hence where i live we have a massive Asda way out of town and a tiny Tesco that is not been allowed to expand or move.
DavidRobertRoy 1 year ago
i am a new user! i've been watching this and i was laughing at the part about the Hi-fi system we had one of those when i was young.
busbybird 2 years ago
r.i.p.woolworths
jamiedavey21 2 years ago 2
My family and I felt London in 84 to move to New York. I still remember this ad from when I was little, They had one with a Commodore 64 in it!
FattyFignon 3 years ago
Being that this shop was so popular in the U.K., it is most likely someone will try to re-create it, probably after the recession
PhoenixRed1one 3 years ago
It's being relaunced in the summer as an online business to rival amazon in the uk.
S1S1lver 3 years ago
A classic ad that's genuinely sad when you think of only what's just happenned recently to Woolies.
R.I.P.
experiment63 3 years ago
1909 - 2009 rip woolworths
willwazere1 3 years ago
... and beyond, it will be back by the summer as an online retailer. shame the stores have gone, but the name will live on...
S1S1lver 3 years ago
From TV Cream Website: It's the latest, greatest, ever more spectacular Woolworths Christmas show! Fronted by ringmaster Joe Brown, for reasons which remain unclear. As does the rationale of getting Lennie Bennett to extol the virtues of Old Spice and Frogger. Leslie Crowther shows up for the second year running, but Peter Powell's shoved out the Kid. We like the Burlington Shirts conga. Not forgetting the glamourous Rula Lenska.
Markjuk 3 years ago
We lost our woolies today here in Newtownards, Norhtern Ireland. People can praise Tesco and Asda all they like, but in our darkest day of the troubles, tesco and Asda dint not want to know that Northern Ireland exsited. Woolies and Woolco however were always here, serving us well through our darkest days, I for one and I am not alone will miss this great store and all the fond memories it brings back, Thanks Woolies for over 50 Years in Newtownards.
ardsguy35 3 years ago
Im only 37 and still have memorys going in to by my records and tapes,when id meet my girlfreind (now wife)id always say meet me outside woolworths,as it was in the centre of town...took my 7yr old boy in on saturday the last day of the store,and said this shop wont be here anymore after today he was sad and said where am i gonig to get my starwars figures from now,he being 7 and me being 37 had happy times in woolworths,good luck to all the staff in 2009
oogg521 3 years ago
1909 - 2009
Goodnight sweet prince
broganski 3 years ago
RIP Woolworths .... and Woolco!
FabFM 3 years ago 2
Damn i am so sad about this... WTF have we let happen? 70's and 80's children will miss this place. Well my daughter is not quite 2 yet so she won't rember how much she currently enjoys going to woolworths but i do.. I feel like crying everytime i wath these ads :(
Barcrest 3 years ago 2
you can be rest assured the dimse of woolworths will have a knock on effect on the high street, soon all we'll have left is the big supermarket chains!
FabFM 3 years ago 3
I agree, it is very sad. I work for British Home Stores and thankfully we are ok, for now, but there aren't many of the old high street names left these days. First C&A, then Littlewoods, then MFI and now Woolies. It makes you wonder what the high street will look like in ten years time.
morgansifer82 3 years ago 3
Our Price too, remember them? All these companies seemed indestructible at one point in time, nothing is sacred!
FabFM 3 years ago 2
It's amazing how expensive things were back then..you would expect them to be way cheaper
NikkiClo 3 years ago
back then we had no internet, less people had computer or video game players, so board games and pop corn makers were a bit more of a big deal.
FabFM 3 years ago 2
strangely 1983 a recession, and now in 2008 not a survivor, thank you tesco.
waderm810 3 years ago
ha ha did the cork hit the tv screen? I bet Sam brown cringes if she see's her dad doing this advert!
mooseman2468 3 years ago
SAVE WOOLWORTHS SAVE WOOLWORTHS. The high street will not b the same without you.
Notice the spelling was WOOLWORTH but now WOOLWORTHS
rajaboy 3 years ago
jebus, that was a lot of expensive shit!
stupidjunk978 3 years ago
It's like the far superior ads from '81 and '82 never happened :(
ilikedthecore 3 years ago
Nearly 30 quid for that crappy Frogger game. What a rip-off lmao.
MannaMachine69 3 years ago
Stuff was expensive then !
gooflafarge 3 years ago
Rula Lenska in gold lame pants....!!
knyvette 3 years ago