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  • wtf am i watchin this shit 4,i need 2 b at tesco.its cheaper than aldi!!!!

  • The thing that stands out is the reference to grams, ounces, pounds, kilos and litres - all mixed up in the same ad. Love it - what makes the UK different but as for Tesco, they were VERY low class in those days and not much has changed!

  • Heinz Beans are 69p today!

  • It's never mentioned how Tescos rebranded themselves dramatically at the end of the 70s/early 80s - up till then they were extremely downmarket - like Lidl or Aldi but even more basic - the places used to smell too and any posh people wouldn't be seen dead anywhere near one.

  • A classic advert from the 1970s when Tesco used to pile em high and sell em cheap under the management of the founder Jack Cohen.These days Tesco has lost its way, Ironically Tesco has now turned into another Sainsburys whom they unsurped to become the No1 supermarket in the UK. They have become lazy, poor quality and the fresh fruit/veg produce are total pants. what goes up, can come down..as Tesco's found out this christmas with poor sales compared to other supermarkets of a similar stature!

  • @lndac02 People are beginning to realize that they are a big con and turning away in droves. They put up prices abd then have a big 'Slam Down' leaving the prices still higher than they used to be! Lost 15% of their share value recently I believe.

  • Tesco. Brill quality in the 70's/80's.

  • 1/2p - what's one of those? Next you'll be saying there used to be a £1 note!

  • @ketrinweb there is

  • Ah the days of half pees.

  • Nice prices

  • I need a time machine...

  • I think you can still get the beans at that price.

  • These were the days. Bring back the gold standard and then prices would start falling dramatically until the Bank buys thousands of imperial pounds (eh-hem 480's of kilograms) of gold.

  • imperial measurements- not metric crap !

  • those were the days, with the imperial measurements; we were proud to use, and not 'forced' to use metric crap from Continental Europe

  • Get yourself down to Tesco and save yourself some of these!

    WTLNetwork, 2011

  • is this before 99p kicked off lol

  • TESCO FTW, I only shop there refuse to shop at Sainsbury's and Asda on Principe

  • They still use the same tills down the local Londis.

  • I love shopping at Tesco! And I really love reading the miserable buggers who hate the company with a passion: dont like'em, dont shop theren but remember millions of us CHOOSE to shop with them or Asda or Sainsbury's this isnt East Germany with the state-run stores! :D

  • @talnaqib What you doing this weekend?

  • that's 34 years ago of this ad

  • ahh 1977 checkouts that's when the girls on them had to work for a living .not the trained chimps they've got now.

  • Do not be fooled by stores like Tesco or Asda saying they have fantastic price reductions...yes they will reduce certain items, but they stick it onto other items and hope you won't notice.

    Just remember, you get nowt for nowt!

  • Did they sell anything with a price that didn't have a 1/2p on the end?

  • What does tesco stand for;No money left in circulation in my city all money taken out. Staff working for food reward.Tescos now plan to take on local tradesmens work, Boilers, Windows, Roofing. Your all idiots shopping with this money taking machine. No money left in local circulation in any area of the UK. You've all dug yourselves in to a local recession. By not trading locally. There building another money drain in my city. Wise up you stupid pricks.Look at whos taking all the money from u

  • butter..flour..evaporated milk..penguin biscuits...checkout your heart...& blood levels weight

  • I see what they got rid of the half bloody P.

  • @WaterMachine1 just a laugh but i remember last year in the recession...a cucumber @ tesco went from 79p to £1.29. how dya work that one out? lol. but true and i switched to asda's till tesco's prices dropped again.

  • @MrDjc1970

    Iceland are as bad..300g bag of prawns..went up from £2 to £3 in one go...bastards.

  • 1/2p on the end of everything lol The old mind games, now they do it with 99p, 1.99p etc.

    Nice to see some old adverts.

  • Tesco may be one of the biggest supermarkets, but if you're launching a campaign against them, surely it's only logical to campaign against the rest as well, who are also moving to bring as many "High Street" goods and services into their stores as possible.

    But bear in mind that supermarkets offer everything under one roof, on a single level, with free parking immediately adjacent, so appeal particularly to the less mobile, who don't have to pay to park then walk 10 minutes to reach the shops.

  • If only our wages had increased by that much over the last 30 years. Minimum wage would be like £20 an hour!

  • These things are probably cheaper now allowing for inflation

  • I don't get why he was reading off all the prices - should just point people to the web site.

  • Cheap food is a thing of the past. Fuck you Credit Crunch!!!

  • tesco where you get your best clothes

  • "Margarine. 26 1/2p."

    Give 26p plus a 1p coin cut in half :)

  • In 2015 Tesco will be giving explosives free to muslims. And video cameras disguised as teddy bears to Catholics and Mormans.

  • hahaa do your shopping in under a pound 

  • I wish it was like that now!!!!!!

  • I see everything is something an a half p then, just as everything is something 49/99pence now. Same psychological tactics!

  • I wish beans were still 12p Now they nearly 60p a Can !

  • @ThePrestonChannel Even in my life time about 15 years ago you could get tins for 9p each in Ada and they didn't even taste like shit.

  • @R33Racer Yeah i know what you mean ! Ive switched from Heinz beans to Branston Beans because they are what you call Proper Beans

  • and dnt we all wish that them prices still remained! just goes to show how high prices have gone up in a mear 30 years =-/

  • wish the prices were still the same!!

  • Is this sale still on?

  • @DareYouNotToClick1 I think I missed it :/

  • Hey that sounds a great deal i can buy 5 packs of penguins and still have change from a pound, I'm getting the car started now!

  • Bear in mind 19½p for 6 Penguin biscuits was a lot of money then. How do those prices compare in real terms to now? Less or more expensive?

  • Tesco = NWO !

  • Bloody hell, Talk about cheap back then! :/

    You could get charged about £1.50 for them penquin biscuits now..

  • Everything was whatever and a HALF pence? An early Tesco scam perhaps?

  • 19P FOR SOME PENGUINS ,HELP ME MAKE THAT TIME MACHINE ,NOWWWW

  • how crap is this country when we are all obsessed with a supermarket??

  • 1

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    2  p

  • Where can i find this tesco store?

  • @dannysbrother 1977

  • Ahhh yes Tesco's in the 70's...I can still smell it. and It smelt dirty!

    It was only in the eary 80's that they started to up their game and began to compete with Sainsbury's, CO-OP, Liptons and Fine Fare.

    Didn't they do well?

  • well.i dont know about you but from now on im doing my shopping in 1977.could get a months worth for 30 quid!

  • I'm going to Tescos NOW!!!

  • @TheMekon

    Tesco have never been merely about making profit'. If that were the case there would only be a few of them per town, not 30, since they're profit revenues are exceeding £60b.

    They already have adverts ready for the RFID microchip implants in supermarkets - do a search for the IBM clip.

    It's just a matter of time, the tesco "club card" was the first step (these things are always done gradually)

    go to w w w . boycottesco . c o m

    Is THIS just a "business" wake-up!

  • Be selling body parts and blood next.?

  • Now with half-p off!

  • I wish they still made sweet adverts like this nowadays

  • i wouldnt want any of that shit in my house, well, appart from the butter

  • What the hell is a half p ?

  • @missjacko1 up until the early 1980s there was a half pence coin in circulation. It was removed from circulation as it was seen as valueless and it cost far more to mint the coin than it's face value (the same reason as to why the 1p and 2p coins are no longer solid copper). After it's removal some shops simply rounded the prices up to the nearest 1p.

  • @madabbafan Ahh thank you, is a very strange part of the currancy and it does seem logical to round it off to the nearest penny. Took me ages to learn the UK currancy when I visit, seeing this half pence would have baffled me completely.

  • @missjacko1 think yourself lucky, up until the early 70s our curency was even worse as it wasn't decimal. Then there were 20 shillings to the pound, 12 pence to the shilling, two ha'pennies to the penny and (until 1960) two farthings to the ha'penny. Not to mention the crown (five shillings), half crown etc.

  • @madabbafan Good lord Im glad its not like that any more I dont do numbers and those sound difficult, my blonde brain couldent cope. Thanks for the additional info.

  • 0:30 Epic Fai

  • nothing over £1...luv it

  • wish it was still that cheap

  • Hahah Heinz is still the same! and half pence wtf!

  • Love them prices. Paying little helps.

  • Possibly the most straight to the point advert ever.

  • christ wheres this tesco i'll save a fortune! dont know where i will find any halfpennies tho

  • 0:31 - The tin falling off made me laugh. Hard.

    I have no life.

  • @VirgiliusNix Me too lol :)

  • fucking hell. if the prices was really that low today, i'd always shop at tesco for my daily penguin snacks ;) 19 and a half pence :P that's fucking good ;)

  • the heinz beans looks EXACTLY the same!!!

    haha

  • stuff was so cheap

  • @peppermintcandyxxx was still is lol

  • @MrConnor2000 you cant get a yoghurt for 7 and a half p lol

  • /watch?v=-P9xs2yyv8Q

    (more info on RFID chips)

  • From this to, 'unexpected item in the bagging area'.

  • @sueplexify

    "From this to, 'unexpected item in the bagging area'."

    hehe, yep... let's fast forward another 5 to 10 years when they completely crash the £ to replace with global RFID microchip implants which will contain every detail of your life.

    *PLEASE swipe your right hand over the barcode reader to pay for your groceries!* "...sorry, our database shows you did not work enough over-time this week to pay for your items."

    watch?v=0gR5zo2vp6g

  • If only those were the prices today :P

  • Notice the bottle of "Quosh" - LMAO, I'd forgotten all about that. Nowadays, it's gotta be at least "not from concentrate" if not "freshly squeezed". What did we used to let enter our digestive system.........

  • Except the bag of flour weighs 2 lb

  • half pence on everything :-)

  • It's QUOSH!!!!!!!!!!

  • I love how the evaporated milk falls.

  • mmm stork margerine! Just recently found out that it's less healthy than smoking crack!

  • Nobody seen it coming until it was too late, they have practically taken over the country, causing millions of businesses to close over the years, now they put smaller shops into the high streets to squeeze the last drop of remaining little shops to close, once this is done, they will charge more and more, all supermarkets have the same idea in mind though, not just tesco, try to support smaller shops, it is important as these giants are sucking the life from towns and your childrens future!

  • @spo5egy

    I know someone who is a manager at Tesco HQ in hertfordshire. He's told me that tesco plan to wipe out ALL companies in britain by 2025.

    They're already giving services for free such as eyetests (to put opticians out of business)

    And they can afford to do this; they have more money and power than government.

    visit:

    w w w . boycottesco . com

    for more info - research the UFID chips - this is what tesco are investing in. A slave population with "tesco villages" everywhere.

  • @DooptGaming

    I think you'll find we still (just about!) have free-speech :)

    So i'll continue to spread the TRUTH as much as I like.

    It IS interesting how hostile you are towards my comment though -maybe you are a shelf staker at tesco(?) and it's hurt your ego to hear someone say something negative about this fundamentally evil company.

    boycottesco . com

  • @DooptGaming

    Calm down, little-fella! (very interesting how violently you continue to defend this company!!)

    Nothing i've said has anything to do with conspiracy theories. It's all factual.

    Tesco have created more power and money for themselves than government (which SHOULD be concerning to anyone even half-awake!) and they ARE planning to create "tesco towns".

    This is not something I have dreamed up - the sources are easily verifiable.

    Do some research.

  • @DooptGaming

    I have nothing against successful businesses.

    What I have a problem with is a company buying out ALL competition - so that the consumer is left with no choices and increasing prices.

    In a worst case scenario everything WILL be owned by Tesco - at this stage they would become a dictator.

    Already in the past 10 years we've had less and less consumer choices - independant record shops gone, opticians closing (Due to tesco "free eyetests") these are just a few examples.

  • @DooptGaming

    w w w . telegraph . co . uk/property/propertynews/76338­24/Tesco-mini-village-building­-plans-will-make-it-more-power­ful-than-government.html

    (paste + remove the spaces!)

  • @SteveFusionX It's scary stuff what they are doing, they look for every loophole too to evade taxes and choke suppliers on prices, eventually once they have sucked the life out of the economy, who is going to buy their products? maybe their workers will, please don't get me started, hope you had a great new year.

  • @spo5egy

    Nice to see someone with some common sense replying to me here!

    We see in the news this week that the future of HMV and Waterstones is looking shaky; with many stores closing this year.

    Good thing we have all those "tesco EXCLUSIVE" albums and DVD's to go buy, aye?

    At this rate the only music/films we'll be able to buy are those dictacted to us by a supermarket.

    w w w . boycottesco . com

    And a Happy new year to you! :)

  • @SteveFusionX I can well believe it. Tescos in Hastings has just opened a superstore and are going to ship in workers from europe and provide them with housing etc. While locals that work there are being given less and less hours. Someone told me they only recognise one bank holiday at christmas and you don`t get paid any extra to work over bank holidays.

  • @SteveFusionX so wrong on many levels.

  • @Goolz

    and yet... you cannot refute anything i've said..

    Next, put your brain into gear before typing.

    Thanks

  • @SteveFusionX

    Anyone who goes to TESCO for an eye test...must be a ****!

  • @SteveFusionX I think that you will find people on a low income such as the working class family actually appreciate the Low prices offered by Tesco, people have to eat and if you can get low prices in places like Tesco then thats one less financial stress!

    However If your a middle class "Guardian" reading intellectual then chances are you can afford to shop in the more expensive 'politically correct' supermarkets!

    Im on a low income and NO I will NOT boycott Tescos!

  • @ELPaso1990TX

    You've completely missed the point and fallen straight into their hands.

    This has been in plan for a long time.

    You are only thinking short-term, YES people need to eat and any price reduction seems like your beloved tesco really cares about you, right?

    Tell me what happens when they have bought out every other retailer and they have the entire monopoly?

    You think their prices will always be low??

    Research globalism/NWO.

    (Btw i'm not middleclass/rich!)

  • @ELPaso1990TX

    You've completely missed the point and fallen straight into their hands.

    This has been in plan for a long time.

    You are only thinking short-term, YES people need to eat and any price reduction seems like your beloved tesco really cares about you, right?

    Tell me what happens when they have bought out every other retailer and they have the entire monopoly?

    You think their prices will always be low??

    Research globalism/N W O.

    (Btw i'm not middleclass/rich!)

  • @ELPaso1990TX

    also.. you may think I was joking about the RFID chips (I made a spelling mistake before re that!)

    But you can search and find official adverts they've already got ready for when it happens.

    The club-cards will be replaced with human implants. And people will BEG to have them done (because it will mean 50% off groceries!!)

    This so-called "recession" is all by design.

    If people keep buying at pro-NWO companies like tesco they will only have themselves to blame.

  • @SteveFusionX - Does that mean Tesco intend to employ the working population so they can pay the bills and do the shopping or will Tesco be catering the everyone's needs for free. Anyway this can only happen if the general public allow it, they don't have to go to Tesco for anything but groceries.

  • @Steve10578

    absolutely.

    Tesco are not just a groceries anymore. They are destroying opticians, taking over banks and have planning permission to build in every town now.

    People love tesco because it's cheap. They don't see the danger of ONE company controlling the monopoly.

    watch?v=_xNhL39uD7I

    check out the video above

    we're going to be chipped and controlled like cattle in the near future unless people stop supporting these companies.

  • @SteveFusionX - You highlight some good points. One cannot help but feel there is a Government sponsored (but unwritten) agenda going on here. In the near future G.P. surgeries will be opening in supermarkets. I am in favour of anything that makes it easier to get an appointment with a G.P. (nigh on impossible with my chap). However it will make it easier for those who seek to control us and / or the supermarkets to facilitate the R.F.I.D implants for the masses.

  • why are 60 000 people watchin this shit

  • @tonytucker18

    Including you...

  • 26 and a half p! LOL!!! I can't find the fraction key.

  • dont forget fruit salads 3 for a penny lol

  • i haven't seen a bottle of quosh for god knows how many years

  • imagine if the prices were that now O_O u could buy the store! lol

  • For Squash get Quosh.

  • this was before tesco became an evil, New World Order corporation.

    Be careful of this company people, they are creating a slave population... heard of "UFID" chips?? If you havent, you need to do some research. Tesco have been putting them in the products you buy.

    w ww (d ot) boycottesco ( do t) c om

  • @SteveFusionX "heard of "UFID" chips?? "

    Yes, the doctor stuck it up your asshole, now you are going to be a slave!!

  • @Tzimnewman3

    har har har... very funny! ;)

    No, seriously go to ww w(do t) boycottesco (do t) com

    Theres some real nasty stuff going on with Tesco tha people dont realise.

  • @SteveFusionX you are a twat

  • @MikeyManchester

    Let me guess - you work at tesco as a shelf-stacker? ;)

    w w w(do t) boycottesco (do t) c o m

  • @SteveFusionX Actually Mr No Hoper I work with in a store and i think you look for the word replenishment team are what remerchandise the fixtures. so stop being a small minded twat all your life.

  • @SteveFusionX you know fook all

  • love how everything is something and a half pea!

    

  • 6 penguin bars for 19 and a half p :o nowadays its a pack of 4 for like 1.99!

  • Bearing in mind the value of money back then, some of those prices actually seem astronomical to me! That bottle of pop 14.5p! That's about how much a value bottle costs today.

    A hard week grafting down t'pit just for a litre of orangeade!

  • @97channel VERY TRUE the price of food was indeed more expensive than it is now.

    (Inflation related) That is one of the reasons that 50% of people you see are walking around with big beer bellys! ...Food is FAR to cheap nowadays.

  • Wow! 7 1/2p for a yoghurt!

  • @DdlyHeadshot You can still get the value supermarket yogurts for around this price and they dont taste too bad

  • what happened if you brought something for 12 and half pence and you gave them 13 pence in penny's cause thatss all you had on you, and they didnt have any half pences in the till to give you your half pence change?

  • GRRR

    WHAT HAPPENED TO QUOSH?

    BETTER THAN ROBINSONS CORDIAL ANY DAY!!!

    BRING IT BACK

  • OMG that was the year i was born.. now i feel old !! hahahaa

  • Ah, the good old half penny! I'm 41, so I remember them well! Happy days - you could buy loads of 1/2p sweets; Blackjacks, Fruit Salads etc. Not to mention Bazooka bubblegum, Space Dust and the like. *eyes must over*. No wonder us English have crap teeth after chomping all those 1/2p sweets as kids!

  • surely he means "pence" and not "pee"

  • @leftyrick4003 it's pee it's p short for pence

  • Incidentally sorry for the way my comments are set out

    but i'm rubbish at spacing!!!

  • The prices in this advert seem cheap today but this was 1977!

    And workers weren't paid the wages they are now!

    There was no minimum wage for example.

    I was watching a programme from the 70's and it said a night watchman

    earned about £30 a week! I was born in the 70's and i can remember a lot

    of sweets were bigger than they are now-as MICKTHEMERC mentions.

  • @K9MARK1 There was a minimum wage - but it wasn't called that. Retail workers had their wages set by "The Wages Council" which was established in 1909 - and abolished in 1986. The mimimum wage was re-established in 1999

  • 1/2 a penny?? wtf (Iol at 0:33)

  • @galloway6204 -YUP 1/2 A PENNY! THEY WERE LATER WITHDRAWN AS THEY

    WEREN'T CONSIDERED NECESSARY.

  • We need prices like that now. Thanks decimalisation and inflation. You fucked it all up. Bankers are wankers

  • I'm going to buy some of this now its well cheap

  • @jabeoo1 You'll have to scrape 33 years' worth of mould off it before you eat it, though ;)

  • now that is good pricing

  • What their currency is pee? I better start saving up instead of flushing it down the toilet.

  • lol 19.5 p for penguins there well over a pound now

  • WOW half pence's xD

  • penguins biscuits 19.5p!!! PENGUINS!!

  • love these prices!

  • good tesco not that cheep now its even expencive on most things

  • i guess a 1/2 p was like the £0.99 you get on the end of prices now adays

    14.5p for a litre of juice XD

  • what happened if they ran out of 1/2 pees for the fuckin change?

  • Tesco loved their half pennies didn't they? I remember them being fazed out, in 1988 I believe.

  • Michael Jayston V/O I think??

  • 24 1/2 P?! All them things would probably be something like 2 or 3 quid now! Jeez, is that how much it actually has changed?!

  • this was 3 years ago and everything has gone up at LEAST 60p. imagine what it will be like in another 33 years time?

    i think we're looking at jacob's cream crackers at about £6 per packet :P

  • @MiK3i You're not wrong there.

  • You could like feed your family for a month on £5!

  • If only we could still buy items at these prices

    today!

  • 'Quash' orange squash!!!

  • lol i know :) but it would really confuse old ladys at work if i said thats 5 and a half p maybe i sud try it :D

  • Yes there was such a thing as half pence. It was phased out in 1984.

  • haha! funny!