Vintage Wal-Mart Commercial (1979)
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- "Blasts through the inflation barrier!"
Classic Wal-Mart commercial featuring a "Super Inflation Buster Sale." Spot aired February 1979.
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Man, looks WAY different from a modern day Walmart, reminds me of a Kmart in a way. Also good to know air freshener designs haven't changed since the 70s.
K Mart, Wal*Mart AND Target started the same year: 1962, Same year I started, LOL.
@@jamesslick4790same year my mom started too!😆
Gee
Air fresheners used to contain more gel inside.
good to know I am not the only one who noticed that! heh. you can still get air fresheners like that anywhere! even though i now see more people using those wax melts.
The word "Cents" won't EVER be used by Walmart ever again.
Good ol greed smh lol
The only thing I know that still costs cents is a pack of ramen noodles
@@Danirey02or maybe it's inflation
Wow… look at those prices. How I wish we could see that again😱😱
$1 in 1979 was worth $4.19 as of today, June 2023. Prices are actually more expensive back then.
@@albear972 False, that is using the CPI which is inaccurate.
@@albear972 your joking right ?????
@@ajwilson3906 The concept of inflation is very hard for some people to understand.
Not sure what minimum wage was in 1979, but it was $2.35 in 1983 when I started working retail.
I have this spool of thread that I've used my whole life for minor sewing repairs. It has the Wal-Mart logo in that style.
"100% Polyester
18¢
Wall-Mart
Dept. 19
Bentonville, Arkansas
200 Yards"
I'm old enough to remember when Walmart placed signs on floor stacks that said something like. "Made in America. We know it costs a little more, but we think it's worth it." If you look closely, you can see one in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Ol Roy
Walmart was a small store back then where you would walk in the doors were not automatic you had to pull them open and the wagons were there maybe 20 of them at the most right near the registers. Walmart employees were known to be very friendly and would go the extra mile to help you with anything. The store had lots of stuff you needed and even the clothes were better quality. There was no food store yet in there just one or two aisles of snack food and some other non perishable items. Walmart changed in the 90's and turned into some monster after 2000 and look at now.
They are as big as a football field now with anything you can think of available.
Don't bother the associates, too.
I never even entered one until the 90s!
@@R.Oates7902I didn’t enter a Walmart until 1994. I know what you mean. It seemed like just another store like K-Mart to me when I was a kid. I missed out on what people seem to be fond of from the ‘70s when it was all about helping out Americans with American made products and whatnot.
Wow I enjoyed this very much. Hard to believe Walmart was once this small a chain.
It was already growing, and Sam Walton was already debt-free.
Hard to believe there are still people who think you're supposed to put 2 or 3 spaces after punctuation but yet here you are.
@juliebraden6911 Hard to believe there's people out there with nothing better to do than critique someone's informal typing, yet here we are.
@@juliebraden6911 hard to believe there is so many ocd fucks who need to stop trying to correct peoples grammar and get over. Their pathetic ocd I will never bother trying to have good grammar no it’s not a sign of being educated or not being educated it’s a sign you simply don’t care about grammar.
@@jasonoverbeck5042 And yet it's hard to believe that people still think it's ok to disregard proper grammar as if its ok. We'll all just gradually get just a little bit worse every day....
You have one of the best retro pages on RUclips!!!
Thanks. =)
Back when Walmart was truly Walmart.
First time I ever saw a Wal Mart jumped the shark claim
Prices good at all 231 stores. Seems like they've done pretty well since then.
This is what the stores looked like in the late 70s, I remember.
We never saw Wal-Mart commercials in those days. I guess there weren't any, anywhere near where we lived, because I never heard of such a store till sometime in the late 80s.
Our first Wal-Mart was in the early 70's (Towson Ave. in Fort Smith) It had a more primitive design (this was there style for new stores in the late 70's). Funny thing is even though they closed that location for their Zero St location the building still stands. It became a indoor flea market for 15+ years, and now it's a multi commercial/private garage rentals. I'm surprised it still standing after all these years. In fact all of the ones that were built in my area are still being used by other businesses.
This was back when it was a little more than a regional Arkansas/Oklahoma/Missouri chain.
And now they are a multinational company, and the largest such company by revenue in the world.
Now popping up across the Country.
and outlived K-Mart & Sears.
Damn we’re you around for that? Like in the area ?
That was when you could shop at Wal-mart and not be accused of being a shoplifter when you tried to leave. 😢
The Wal-Marts I go to they want us to show them the receipt before we walk out the door, it's like they don't trust any of us.
@@menartd2618Same at my Walmart, they probably don’t trust me and accuse me of stealing since I’m still somewhat young, but sometimes they see my stuff and just say I’m all set
@@menartd2618 My walmart asks for receipt too, I just ignore and walk out and after 4 times the greeter no longer asks me for receipt, so problem fixed. One rule don't argue, just walk.
The only store I go to where when you're leaving, they have to check your receipt!
That 1 dollar toothpaste wasn't battling inflation, it was competing!
I didn't heard of Walmart until the early 1990s, All we had was Kmart, Bradlee's, Sears, J.c.penneys,Ames,Jamesway, Clover, Woolworth,Newberry,McCrory
All 231 stores... That's the biggest take away in this. 😂
You can now get colgate for $2. That's probably the only impressive price jump I've ever seen😂
No the Kleenex is. It was $0.48 in the commercial, but now a box is $1.85. And if you think that’s crazy… 2 Bounty paper towel rolls are $7 and a six pack of charmin is $8!
Get Biden out of office!! TRUMP 2024!!!!!! Let’s make America great again!!!!!
@@Flokiabob311bounty and charmin are just ripoffs. Costco is like 1/3 of the price
pretty impressive animation and quality for 1979
According to the ad, Wal-Mart (now Walmart) had 231 stores at that time. I think Kmart had between 900 and 1100 stores in 1979.
Fair prices back then lol
Now walmart would have a "Super Inflation profit" where they don't have sales they only tell you how much profit they make off the items you buy. A yearly multi Trillion dollar business
I remember those Kleenex boxes.
Yes, the pretty foil boxes that Joanne Worley kept in her living room!! But do you remember that "Renuzit dooz it"?!!
The nearly-perfect demolition really sells it! 😅
Back when Walmart offered AMERICAN made products.
Most products were American-made at that time, not just Walmart...
Back when unions were mainstream and globalization didn't exist.
They gotta keep those young Chinese kids employed
Back when America actually made products.
Back when Walmart wasn't trying to be the next Amazon.
These days, that’s probably how much Walmart buys those items wholesale
The parking spaces directly in front of the building.
Does anybody else remember the commercial with the big rig rolling along the highway and the made in USA only?
When Sam Walton was still alive, they did stress American-made products (at least in theory) much more than they do now. It became nothing but disposable Chinese trash once the kids took over.
We didn't get walmart here until the late 1980s, looks like we missed alot
I have been around since 1962 (As logn as Wal*Mart, K Mart AND Target). Here's the "weird" part: I never even HEARD of Wal*Mart until I was in my THIRTIES. We had K Mart, Zayre, Hill's, Murphy's Mart, AND I even heard of Target ALL before Wal*Mart.
Only 3 or 4 states had a Walmart when this commercial aired. I only knew about Walmart at first because of National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and still didn't see one for a few more years. I'm from New England and I think we might have gotten Walmart later than the rest of the US did, same with Target.
@@TRJ2241987 I'm from Pittsburgh, PA and yeah, Same. Wal*Mart was MEANINGLESS to the Northeast AND the Midwest until the 1990s
@@BagzAndPresidentYou damn young whipper snapper!😊
I first heard of Walmart in 1978 when my family sent my sister to college in Arkansas.
Isn't that where their headquarters are?
The first Walmart I remember going to was one on Benbrook Blvd in Benbrook, Texas, autumn 1984 or 85. Then, years later when I moved to the Mid-Cities to stay, I went to the original Bedford, Texas Walmart on Harwood Road. It was about the size of this one featured. In the mid-90s, it was replaced by the large Walmart on 121 and Cheek-Sparger on the Bedford-Grapevine line. This one grew into a Super Center.
I really miss the old Walmart logo🤔
@Frank Rizzo Their frontier font logo is my favorite (I think used from 1964-1981; I was born in '82 but, I like it anyway).
Loved the original Wal Mart over newly Wal Mart
Where was this that they actually had Wal-Mart in 1979? Living in Los Angeles, the very first time I saw a Wal-Mart in my area was in 1995. When did they first open, and where?
The first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962, but the first California location opened in July 1990 in Lancaster.
Go to LAX. I bet they have a direct flight to NE Arkansas. Why? That is where Walmart HQ is still located.
Prices have gone up in 40 years.
I didn’t know Wal-mart existed until 1989.
231 stores when this commercial aired. Over 10,000 throughout the world now. (46x that number).
sure could use a "super inflation buster" right now.
LOL! The same font as the Megalo Mart.
Inflation busters? 😂. Looks like history is repeating itself. Either way nice clip
I don’t think they were in Southern California in the 70’s because I don’t remember them.
First I've Ever Seen Something About WalMart That Far Back...
back when cents mattered
They still matter, when it comes to taxes.
Open Renuzit! A little or a lot! It all depends on the odors you've got!
before they started bankrupting American factories
They force manufacturers to strip out features and lower quality of materials to get lower prices than other retailers. Consumers think they are buying the same thing offered at another store, but they are not. Model numbers are different for a reason.
@@texaswunderkind I've been pointing that out to people for years but they think they're getting the same thing because it's the same "white box."
Dang all 231 stores? Now there are 10,500. Crazy
now why cant we go back to those times
If there were a god we could just goes to show there isn't one.
@@spaniardsrmoors6817 Oh there is God but there's also a Devil and there's also fked up people in the world, ppl that can't be simple
Never
Atheism is antisemitism.
Wal Mart then Wal-Mart now Walmart
Walmart hadn't yet infected my area back then.
They should bring this ad back today the way inflation is going these days…
He was already in the Senate helping himself to our money.
@@BagzAndPresident Cry and seethe
Crazy I was three in 1979
They weren't all over the northeast yet. W.T. Grant had just closed, and k-mart was still expanding.
Colgate toothpaste for $1 is crazyyy
Back when a major corporation admitted openly that inflation exists. Super Inflation Buster! LOL
I'll take that inflation over this current one any day.
I miss the old Walmarts...I HATE the Megamarts.
I don't remember Wal-Mart as a kid. I only new Target and Zayres.
Look like a Menard's commercial
Back when the whole family used the same 9oz tube of toothpaste.
Watching this made feel like I was in a different timeline, I wonder how much the milk costs back then
Toothpaste must be inflation-proof.
Yeah adjusting for inflation, it was 0.48¢ per oz, similar Colgate today is 32¢ per oz
Please rewind 🙏
Yes when people were descent not woke or rude asf with dumb pronouns
@oliverjaundoo740 People calling me ugly seems to be the hot topic at Wal-Mart today. Hopefully, I don't end up on channel 5 news. A molecule that rolls across the floor. I figured there is none, so treading softly seems to work.
All 231 Wal-Mart stores.
Back when Walmart was a hole in a wall store
9 oz Colgate toothpaste. I wish they sold it that way today.
Those Renuzit packages though
Colgate toothpaste went up 50¢ where was a Box of Kleenex went up 2.50$ wtf?
Today I have about 5 Wal-Marts within 5 miles of me.
All of them selling cheap, vulgar, easily breakable crap manufactured by slaves in the illegal occupation of Taiwan, Tibet, and Hong Kong.
Hey I’m from a less developed country and this blows my mind that you guys had curling iron and Kleenex in 1979. I assumed they were recent inventions. I’ve only heard of this thing called curling iron about 10 years back I think.
Are you kidding me? These are 1920s inventions.
@@ruslannabioullin3664 well Ive never heard of them until about 10-15 years back.
@@nuancedrenditionsbro lives in the Amazon rainforest 💀
@@ZaibatsuHeavyIndustries no most of the countries in the world are fairly less developed and it’s insane the differences. Your reaction is not surprising considering you don’t know how much lacking most of the world is. By that I mean non nato countries and Japan.
This was before WalMart was in Nebraska. Notice the font. This is why I thought WalMart was part of Skaggs.
can they bring back these prices lol
Actually they are cheaper today if you adjust for inflation. Especially the toothpaste.
Back when they weren't accepting EBT
Under 4 something with tax for a curling iron?! 🤯 😮
$17 adjusted for inflation today, same Conair iron $13 from the store.
The toothpaste price seems expensive for back then....
Yeah $4.30 in todays money
Back when items were worth paying for.
Well, I think I've seen all I care to of this "future" I've survived into. Anybody got a lead on backwards time travel yet? The day I find one, I'm gonna be on the first DeLorean to Outtaheresville.
The prices only pissed me off a little bit...........
Today, the walmart heirs make $40,000,000.00 an hour doing nothing.
@John-il2fy let me
Guess. You got offended by my fact of wealth inequality by championing the top .01% instead of siding with the working class? How "Fox News" of you.
@John-il2fy you think the current walmart heirs do anything? I do not watch any corporate media. Your priorities are terrible. I bet you think we live in a meritocracy. Good luck.
Damn son
Back when walmart was a decent company
9oz toothpaste lol. Shrink flation XD
Cheaper today adjusted for inflation
Bro thats so old 0:28
Limits wow.
Years before late-stage Capitalism kicked in once Sam died and his greedy kids took over.
Nah, I treat my employees and customers with dignity and respect and choose to pay a living wage to the people who work for me. Yes, I could use more help but I'm not going to cut pay just to get more bodies like team "W." I'm guessing you don't care if their employees have to get public assistance as long as you can get your cheap Chinese-made crap.
@@BagzAndPresident Lol what kind of a tool do you need to be to write this? No one is jealous, it's just disgusting to see how greedy corporations have become & it's even more disgusting to see people willingly bend over & thank them for it. Just about everyone in this country is braindead. I really hope you're a kid...
Everything looks the same except the price.
Walmarts not like it use to be
Before Pops died.
Why is toothpaste still a dollar? 😆
Poison doesn't go up price much
Inflation?
Old colgate toothpaste
Inflation my foot
So is that a place where you buy walls? 😂
"What is Walmart? It's like, they sell wall stuff? What is it?"
And guns
Of course not. It's called Wal-Mart not Wall-Mart.
Eh, this place will never take off.
Curious George
Same trash bags, $7.00 now...Crazy😢
Inflation
That cancer grew fast.
LOL tell me about it!
If Sam Walton was alive today, I'm sure that Walmart would be a lot different.
Colgate costing $1 in 1978 when aim toothpaste costs $1 today. What a ripoff.