Wal-Mart VHS Tapes Ad from 1986

[Lunacyk]

Holy shit, I had that video tape deck with the wood design!! FLASHBACK CITY! Damn, it's cliche...but I miss my 80's youth!

[zcarrell]

@TombstoneInc If I could have sex with this comment, I would.

[TombstoneInc]

I LOVE OLD SCHOOL COMMERCIALS. Thank god for youtube. Back when life was simple, and things were great. All this technology, the world moving so fast, we need to slow down, but oh no, one day we have an iphone, a year later its already i phone 3. Give me a break. I MISS VHS. As long as taken care of and stored properly, VHS will outlive DVD. One scratch on a DVD DONE!! I have VHS from 1985 that still run perfectly!!!!!

[NOWA1995]

I wonder if this video was originally recorded on one of those tapes in the ad?

[kakashi76767]

2 blank vhs tapes for ONLY $9 holy shit!

[TheIkawatay]

When white people still wear clothes to buy at walmart!

[brandonefron2064]

Speaking of TDK, Nintendo Asked a 3rd Party Company to work on Lady Sia (The Company is named TDK Mediactive).

[cameron20101000]

Polaroid, Maxell, JVC, TDK, and Scotch are my favorites of VHS

[brandonefron2064]

@cameron20101000 until Imation bought out the TDK and Memorex brands. I use Imation, Maxell, HP, TDK and Memorex Recordable DVDs.

[cameron20101000]

@brandonefron2064 DVDs, i use Maxell, TDK, and Memorex DVDs

VHS, i use Memorex, TDK, Sony, and Maxell.

What about VHS?

[brandonefron2064]

@cameron20101000 VHS is outdated. I plan to buy Recordable Blu-ray Discs instead to record episodes of Shows airing on MTV, Cartoon Network, ABC Family and Disney Channel (along with commercials including the American Girl one).

[cameron20101000]

@brandonefron2064 Before getting a Recordable Blu-ray discs, you need a Blu-ray recorder.

Besides, some stores still do VHS, such as: Walmart, Kmart, Dollar General, Family Dollar, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Sears, and Targets.

[cameron20101000]

@brandonefron2064 I never did see them at HEB, Krogers might have them.

You live in Texas then, I use to live in Texas back then, but now, i'm in Clarksville, TN.

[CubsFan2812]

2/$9?? god damn! I thought these were supposed to be low prices. (Im sure that price was reasonable back in its day though)

[cameron20101000]

@CubsFan2812 and still going today

5 Pack of Videotapes is for $9.98 Memorex

go to walmart today and find out

I'm in Clarksville of Tennessee and uses Memorex

In Port Arthur uses Sony

I was born in Dallas in 1987

[Clay3613]

I still have that exact type of VHS tape still sealed!

[Alphahumphrey2011]

@Clay3613 I still own VHS too.

[Sheri451]

Was this when Sam was alive? He probably would be spinning in his grave over his company now, how his greedy children have turned into bastards and treat their workers like shit.

[ClassicCommercials4U]

@Sheri451 Yeah, he didn't die until 1992.

[Sheri451]

@ClassicCommercials4U I didn't know. But I'm telling the truth about WalMart, They don't care about their workers. I used to work there I worked my Butt off for them. And I have a cousin who works for them, She works her butt off too. And they treat her like crap.

[bub3690]

@Sheri451 very very true

[VideoGuy84]

@Sheri451 I agree. I find it very hard to believe that the Walmart we know now is really "the dream" Sam Walton envisioned. He'd turn over in his grave if he knew what his company has become.

[Sheri451]

@VideoGuy84 Yes he would, All the ones in there now are only looking out for number 1.

[Jcolinsol]

I remember when VHS cassettes were the bees knees.

[chadberry75]

dam it..i asked 4 dvd's.

[cameron20101000]

@chadberry75 well don't get dvds because they get dirty,scratched and others to this muthafucka.

[cameron20101000]

@chadberry75 miss videotapes a lot

go back to them.

[BarbieBoy1997]

$4.50 Each??? What a bargain!

[jjovereats]

10 pack of 4 hour PALs, and you got yourself 40 hours of weirdness recording time SP, 80 hours LP, or (rare) 120 hours EP

[Creepingdeathx81]

wow 2 for 9 dollars , I can get a 3 pack of 8 hour tapes for less than that.

[Creepingdeathx81]

wow 2 for 9 dollars , I can get a 3 pack of 8 for less than that.

[aftershock71]

LOL!! I was in Walmart today...a few hours ago actually...and when I walked in, I was greeted with a dirty look by some guy with his arm in a sling..no "Welcome to Walmart", for me. I realize that retail slaves are usually treated like dirt underneath management's fingernails as I work in retail myself....but come on!!!!!

[MattTheSaiyan]

Very nice packaging design for those tapes.

[80z90zhouzemuzicgrl]

i cant believe walmart has been around for that long ...and now it is about money racism ,bad treatment of employess and costumers.

[weareallanemic]

I have a bunch of those rainbow polariod ones!

[lubbockTX2]

Wal-Mart used to be a good store. Until the 90's, a lot of the stuff they sold was Made in the USA.

Eventually, corporate greed got the best of them, which leads us to where we are today.

[Freedan111]

@lubbockTX2

Give the corprate greed whine a rest. Buisness is in the buisness of making money. Period. They aren't a charity, they don't owe you anything. You don't like it, don't shop there.

You want to talk about greed, look at the welfare recipients, food stamp recipients, section 8 recipients. Wanting something for doing nothing is PURE GREED.

[TravisAllenChannel]

What show came back on after the commercial?

[nintengirl14]

@1972tasche Amen... :(

[alanisgirl2010]

Hey!. Did my family and I buy VHS tapes at Wal-Mart.

[BoogsterSU2]

Waste Money. Live Poorer. WalMart.

[lemonrind]

It's weird for me to see Walmart commercials from the 1980s, because Walmart didn't exist in Canada until the mid 1990s.

[KriptoDie]

I have some of those cassettes my dad quit using them when we got a DVR so I put a bunch of commercials and funny TV programs on them.

[pinkieandtherev]

We bought a crapload of tapes from Wal-Mart and other discount stores. Polaroid "Supercolor", the white boxes, have not aged well, although the black-box "High Grade" and blue "Supercolor Plus" still look decent. Our faves back then were Scotch EG+, and BASF EQ Chrome. Not sure where those old VCRs (one Sharp, one Emerson, both very early front-loaders) came from, but they lasted amazingly long. I think the Sharp lasted over 20 years.

[ClassicCommercials4U]

@wildbilltexas I still have some Polaroid tapes from the 80's. A few of the commercials on my channel came from them, ironically. lol

[Cimozzen]

those days they sold Polaroid and Fuji blank vhs tapes in stores, ah, i miss those days lol

[mizzzlizzz02]

Wow, with only a few locations?! Now they rule the world! lol

[wilkes85]

"I bought a great VCR at wal-mart"... what an oxymoron!

And I can't believe that blank VHS tapes are the same price now as they were 24 years ago.

[Watcher3223]

''I bought a great VCR at wal-mart'... what an oxymoron!'

For the time the commercial was made, it wasn't an oxymoron.

Back then, VCRs were produced mainly from 1st world countries, usually Japan, with an aspect of over-engineering involved in design, including models that were sold at Wal-Mart stores.

For instance, if you bought a Magnavox VCR from Wal-Mart in 1986, chances are that it will have been made by Panasonic for North American Philips (then the parent of Magnavox).

[jakestooge34]

That's where I usually bought blank tapes.

[JoshuaAndMom]

That cart on 0:20 looks like mine except mine is from Weis Markets.

[fantomfriend2]

vcr is the greatest invention ever i still have one. i remember when i bought my first video tape, we were all new at this including the salesman. he said it's a 2 hour tape and i asked didn't he have any tapes longer he looked at the box and said no this is the only kind we got ,lol.

[oiromaha]

This was Sam Walton's Wal-Mart. Back then Wal-Mart WAS something special. It was as warm & inviting as a store could be. Today's Walmart* stores are somewhat cold and forbidding, even with that new logo and store design.

[MattJFisher]

@oiromaha Yeah, and today's Wal-Mart stores suck. I don't go to Wal-Mart anymore. I would rather keep Woolco than let Wal-Mart take over.

[StarWarsTrains]

@oiromaha Yeah! They're all generic now! It's ridiculous!

[tenchimasake]

@oiromaha Not to mention their general corporate policy is pure totalitarian shit. R.I.P. Sam Walton and Wal-Mart. :( :( :(

[poolboyinla]

@oiromaha I totally disagree.

[brandonefron2064]

@oiromaha I think Wal-Mart stores are somewhat cold and kinda nice.

[Harvesterofpie]

He said VCR. DvD's didnt exist then.

[Thief8Bit]

@Harvesterofpie Nope, but Beta was close. Beta, of course was a tape, like VHS, but lost to it's country cousin, the VHS in terms of marketability and mass production costs.

[EatEmAndSmileRoth]

And I got this great DVD player at wal mart! LoL.

[Mroldays]

Wooow, what a commercial. The technology in this is from outerspace.

Check out my page for old school stuff like this!

[vine15five]

Try to buy a blue ray disc today at $27. counting inflation $10 for a VHS tape is comparable.

[CheapnessAndBeauty]

Never seen these commercials before :) I guess this was before WalMart became nothing but corporate greed, and was actually an awesome store XD

[xlogold]

VHS tapes were very expensive at that time, I remember a standard FUJI was about $8.99 per tape.