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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • Tesco announce they will be discontinuing the use of Green Shield saving stamps in order to pass the savings onto the consumer. How will the shoppers react? 'Money Go Round' investigates
    First shown: 01/07/1977
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    Quote: VT17211

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  • @garypautard1069
    @garypautard1069 3 года назад +92

    When my father passed away recently I was clearing his home and I found 6 Green Shield booklets all full . It's great fun showing people who remember them. The smile on their face as they remember this bygone era is a joy.

    • @bsimpson6204
      @bsimpson6204 3 года назад +6

      Sell them on eBay, you might make a profit on them lol

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 3 года назад +1

      That's wonderful!

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад +1

      ..certainly was a great time ....now we must fight against crooks who have sold our country to foreigners ......!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @jstewart3799
      @jstewart3799 Год назад +1

      God Bless him, he was nesting for his family.

    • @RetroReminiscing
      @RetroReminiscing Год назад +1

      Orrrr thats amazing ! I remember my nana taking me to tescos with her in the very early 80's and seeing her with them at the till ...

  • @nacholibre1962
    @nacholibre1962 3 года назад +63

    OK, own up if you watched this all the way through. It is a true testament to an entirely different world than today.

    • @valiantv2897
      @valiantv2897 2 года назад +3

      Guilty, i grew up in the 70s and love these nostalgia hits

    • @1paulinejackson
      @1paulinejackson Год назад

      Well I did... found it very interesting. I can remember sticking the green sheild stamps in the book. What memories this video brought back to me.

    • @kevinbeck6785
      @kevinbeck6785 7 месяцев назад

      Bring them back Tesco we loved Green shield Stamps remember sticking them in the book for my mother

  • @chrisjones3901
    @chrisjones3901 3 года назад +75

    Worst thing Tesco ever did was take away my green shield stamps,my mum used to let us choose a toy with what she saved.absolutely loved the whole idea

    • @sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585
      @sirpercivalsmallcock-jones9585 3 года назад +14

      My mother used her stamps to buy a slide for the back garden.
      I really miss the 1970s.

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад +6

      great time ...Real UK .......

    • @ianclarke1852
      @ianclarke1852 2 года назад +3

      My mum had so many books of Green Shield stamps she bought a house and a new car with them. Unbelievable.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 2 года назад

      @@krishnan-resurrection714 ????

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 2 года назад +2

      I suppose it's just a forerunner to the Tesco clubcard, or nectar at sainsburys

  • @ljduk7595
    @ljduk7595 5 лет назад +259

    Lol, on our knees almost, with 3 little bags of shopping. Please god bring back these nicer times. People even spoke nicer, more gentle & calm. Lovely 😊

    • @jdh6752
      @jdh6752 5 лет назад +13

      Ahh, the good old days when an absolute nutter like @Linda Tucker would have been getting the treatment she so obviously needs in one of the many large psychiatric hospitals, which are sadly all closed now in favour of "care" in the community.

    • @splinterbyrd
      @splinterbyrd 5 лет назад +21

      Nostalgia is fun but don't let it totally distort things. The 1970s were horrible

    • @gorillatagfun5336
      @gorillatagfun5336 5 лет назад +4

      You obviously never heard my granny speak then 😂

    • @popcorns6472
      @popcorns6472 4 года назад +16

      Yes, please bring back the times where women were still second class citizens, minorities were beaten by police and widely hated no matter where they lived. Lets go back to the times of widespread robberies and violent crime.
      These times were only "nicer" because I assume you're a white person, and you have no idea about how shit things were decades ago. Get a grip.

    • @bethhollins3556
      @bethhollins3556 4 года назад +5

      @@jdh6752 you mean homeless vacant-eyed people wandering about urban areas.

  • @LindaTCornwall
    @LindaTCornwall 5 лет назад +86

    Most people don't even realise, that this was how Argos started lol.. I remember Green Shield Stamps.. and flicking through the catalogue in the seventies. :D

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 5 лет назад +171

    Now in 2019, the same items in Tesco cost £381.19 and you get 3 clubcard points.

    • @scarlettohara4702
      @scarlettohara4702 5 лет назад +9

      Pqrst Zxerty love it 😂🤣🤣

    • @madeinuk68
      @madeinuk68 5 лет назад +32

      Pqrst Zxerty The club card points is a scam to see who is buying what. It's just another big brother plot,to keep an eye on even those people like myself that just uses cash. "Don't trust the fuckers"

    • @pqrstzxerty1296
      @pqrstzxerty1296 5 лет назад +14

      @@madeinuk68 Nectar card is a scam too, it is Experian " track you card ",

    • @jennyhughes4474
      @jennyhughes4474 4 года назад +10

      I don't want points, I want all items a tiny bit cheaper, but they do love to see what their customer profiles are and what they buy: the points are supposed to pay us for letting them have this/our data.

    • @WarrenF
      @WarrenF 4 года назад +3

      Food from supermarkets are the cheapest they have ever been

  • @ianclarke1852
    @ianclarke1852 5 лет назад +88

    My mum lost her job then my dad left her. Tesco then discontinued Green Shield stamps. It was the last straw for her and she was never the same person afterwards.

  • @carlwakefield889
    @carlwakefield889 5 лет назад +148

    That was the reason I stopped eating whiskers bloody price never came down enough

  • @ljc6535
    @ljc6535 5 лет назад +49

    I love watching all these old clips ,love the voices ,the elderly woman In hat..

  • @Veniceredmask01
    @Veniceredmask01 5 лет назад +52

    Back in the days when it was enough for one person to work and provide for their family. Allowing the other person to cook fresh everyday. Instead of the ready meal chemical crap we have today

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 3 года назад +7

      So true 👍

    • @tosspot1305
      @tosspot1305 3 года назад +5

      This is true.. A single wage is barely enough these days

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад

      it was True Britain then ...before vermin like 'Rishi sunak' etc .......

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 2 года назад

      agree that home cooking is really a dying art we need to bring back. But let's be honest - british food has *never* been good, which is why we have such a bad reputation internationally. The choice of food, and the things we cooked, back then were pretty bloody awful. For a long time, olive was something you could only get from a chemist to clean your ears with.

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@zeddeka
      That is a bunch of nonsense and you know it.

  • @lazycalm41
    @lazycalm41 5 лет назад +450

    This video shows footage from the lovely planet I was born on. Sadly now days I am forced to live on a totally different one that I dislike immensely!

    • @helentrove620
      @helentrove620 3 года назад +40

      I feel the same way as do many of us. I feel sorry for the younger generation, they have missed out on so much 'real living' enjoying the simpler things in life. A few things may have changed for the better but mainly not at all & will only get worse :(

    • @peterembranch5797
      @peterembranch5797 3 года назад +53

      Oh guys. Ever since time began there's been old fools constantly complaining that things were better in THEIR day. I remember older folk saying exactly the same thing when I was a youngster. What people like you forget is that you remember the "good old days" through the eyes of the children you were then. Things looked better because you were young and naïve. Now you're old and bitter, and you think the world has changed. It hasn't, you have.

    • @lazycalm41
      @lazycalm41 3 года назад +43

      @@peterembranch5797 The problem is the world HAS changed, very much for the worse. Trouble with people like you is you simply refuse to see it!

    • @peterembranch5797
      @peterembranch5797 3 года назад +11

      @G Gilligan Pure abuse. No actual content at all. I hit the bullseye alright.

    • @peterembranch5797
      @peterembranch5797 3 года назад +12

      @@lazycalm41 Way to go lazy, never listen, always talk. That way you don't have to think about stuff that you find uncongenial. Goodbye.......

  • @martinlong2804
    @martinlong2804 5 лет назад +79

    I have a step ladder from Green shield stamps, I still use them to day

    • @Havanacuba1985
      @Havanacuba1985 5 лет назад +2

      They were stronger than they looked

    • @pigknickers2975
      @pigknickers2975 4 года назад +5

      And we still have my Grandads electric drill as featured on the front of the actual catalogue! It does still work 50 years later too although to be fair to it my modern one is 10x better.

    • @prestcoldandy910
      @prestcoldandy910 3 года назад +4

      Iv still got the budgie cage , the budgie died a few years back though

    • @martinlong2804
      @martinlong2804 3 года назад +1

      @@prestcoldandy910 very good

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 3 года назад

      The stamps??

  • @summerrose4286
    @summerrose4286 3 года назад +21

    Such lovely soft voices.

    • @summerrose4286
      @summerrose4286 3 года назад

      @Modern Classic Collectables i have no idea what that means

    • @montyf2165
      @montyf2165 3 года назад +1

      Yes and no shouting, cameras cutting to another shot every few seconds, and definitely no " you know", " like" and " innit".

  • @Turnbull50
    @Turnbull50 5 лет назад +46

    Mrs Alard's cheaper coffee was cheaper because it contained Chicory

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 5 лет назад +1

      I noticed that. Instant coffee loaded with a root vegetable. As bad as starbucks full of sugar and soy. My family was friends with another family who had a farm growing chicory on a large scale.

    • @Juliukas101
      @Juliukas101 6 месяцев назад

      @@OffGridInvestor Yes, it was an ersatz coffee bolstered by cheap chicory. That said, I like chocory!

  • @maccagrabme
    @maccagrabme 5 лет назад +193

    The days when TV cared about ordinary people's concerns.

  • @Banglish123
    @Banglish123 3 года назад +35

    When Tony just looked for the price labels on every product and then I realised bar codes hadn't been invented. These clips make me smile and laugh. I grew up in the 70s and remember the products and the prices.

    • @richbiles230872
      @richbiles230872 3 года назад +1

      Bar codes were invented in the early 1950s.

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 3 года назад +1

      Today we wouldn't even call them labels because we've adopted the Americanism "tag".

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 3 года назад +2

      @@richbiles230872 I'm sure they didnt enter British retail before the 80s?

    • @richbiles230872
      @richbiles230872 3 года назад +1

      @@phillipecook3227 1979 was the year the first UK shop used bar codes. I pointed out that the bar code system was 'invented' in the early 50s.

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 3 года назад

      @@richbiles230872 I know but I don't remember them before the 1980s. But I'll take your word for it they were implemented en masse throughout the British retail sector in 1979.

  • @donhearn9235
    @donhearn9235 5 лет назад +83

    It strange seeing the pack of smash being made by Cadbury

    • @Picnicl
      @Picnicl 4 года назад +4

      As I'll assume you're aware, it's been Cadbury owned for most of its existence. They sold it to Premier Foods in 2006.

    • @Zoe-dr5ps
      @Zoe-dr5ps 3 года назад +2

      @@Picnicl I was not aware of that. I'm bloody shocked, I must say

    • @phillipecook3227
      @phillipecook3227 3 года назад +4

      There was a TV advetisment throughout the 70s with an earworm jingle " For mash get Smash" : )

  • @hughhanifin6521
    @hughhanifin6521 5 лет назад +68

    It's a strange how there accents different sounds very clear talking

    • @TheOneTrueSpLiT
      @TheOneTrueSpLiT 5 лет назад +14

      Itsa peculiar much how sentence of you sense made.

    • @SirGeorgeButtox
      @SirGeorgeButtox 5 лет назад +2

      Peepals talking speak is much peculiar than lady though in suppermarket

    • @michaelgrace1298
      @michaelgrace1298 4 года назад +2

      Roll us ye cap grandad

    • @c4715
      @c4715 3 года назад

      Very clipped isn't it?

    • @David-uf8ex
      @David-uf8ex 3 года назад +3

      Yes it’s lovely not to hear slang American

  • @allisonsmith5242
    @allisonsmith5242 3 года назад +18

    As kids me and my sis loved sticking the Green Shield stamps in the stamp book and at Christmas we loved looking through its catalogue pointing out what we would like. Happy times. Wow stuff was really cheap as well.

  • @fluffybunny7840
    @fluffybunny7840 5 лет назад +140

    This brings back lovely memories,when being a stay at home wife was the norm and children played out in the streets, hopscotch,skipping marbles, whipping tops. Sunday was a restful day and a lovely home cooked roast on the table!

    • @agfagaevart
      @agfagaevart 5 лет назад +9

      that's not the way we all lived...alas...

    • @agfagaevart
      @agfagaevart 5 лет назад +23

      @Josh Hough not to mention telly channels that all "signed off" at midnight! :-0

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 5 лет назад +13

      @@agfagaevart all 3 of them

    • @ds1868
      @ds1868 5 лет назад +10

      @@melgrant7404 I can remember all two of them and black and white only.

    • @cashcrop70
      @cashcrop70 5 лет назад +21

      @@melgrant7404 Yes but there was more quality TV on those three channels than the 50-100+ channels we have today

  • @JonasStuart
    @JonasStuart Год назад +7

    Loving watching these old gems ❤

  • @kellysouter4381
    @kellysouter4381 Год назад +17

    Weren't they quiet and politely spoken? No one shouted or was rude. No noisy "music". I miss that.

  • @mynemjefflol
    @mynemjefflol 4 года назад +14

    Green Shield Stamps was a British sales promotion scheme that rewarded shoppers with stamps that could be used to buy gifts from a catalogue or from any affiliated retailer. The scheme was introduced in 1958 by Richard Tompkins, who had noticed the success of the long-established Sperry & Hutchinson Green Stamps in America.
    For a few years, the scheme was so widely adopted that it was referenced in rock songs. But it suffered when Tesco ceased to use it, as part of a price-cutting policy that became standard nationwide. To retain business, Green Shield allowed customers to buy gifts from the catalogue with a mix of stamps and cash, but soon the catalogue became cash-only, and the operation was re-branded as Argos. Stamps were withdrawn altogether in 1991.

    • @RSCOZZY
      @RSCOZZY Год назад +1

      Nice copy and paste from Wikipedia 🤣👏

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад +1

      Sort of a loyalty card system forerunner!

  • @mota4tuttoo
    @mota4tuttoo 3 года назад +6

    ...what a nice step back into a gentler more sane time...all those lovely soft spoken women...a time when Britain was still a decent place to live. Sorry to see those times disappear...

  • @TermiteVideo
    @TermiteVideo 3 года назад +20

    The general population looked so much slimmer

    • @mikemidulster
      @mikemidulster 3 года назад +2

      That was before wide-screen TV.

    • @jameswillett7186
      @jameswillett7186 3 года назад +2

      Well the UK now has the FATTEST people in Europe.

  • @adoremus4014
    @adoremus4014 3 года назад +9

    I used to work at Green Shield stamps on Saturdays. The elderly would bring in books of stamps stuck down with flour and water and all the pages would stick together. It took some of them years to save up for a set of 3 mugs!

  • @jonl8509
    @jonl8509 4 года назад +12

    Adjusted for inflation, £4.68 then is about £60 now. The same 10 items bought in Tesco today would cost around £26. Food is a LOT cheaper today!

    • @Withnail1969
      @Withnail1969 3 года назад +1

      Fossil fuels, fossil fuel derived fertilisers, mechanised and factory farming. Soon to be going away as cheap fossil fuels go away.

    • @hellfirepictures
      @hellfirepictures Год назад +3

      Yes but people's rent then was around 1/10th - adjusting for inflation - as it is today. Food could afford to be pricier.

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад +2

      I think your inflation calculator is broken. £4.68 would have been approximately £31 in 2020.

    • @petegallows5494
      @petegallows5494 4 месяца назад +1

      Absolutely nowhere near £60. According to Bank of England inflation calculator website, £4.68 in 1977 was £21.46 in 2019/2020 when you posted your comment. It's miles away from your number and anybody can check for themselves. So if your other number, £26 for the same items was correct, the food in 2020 was indeed dearer, than 1977, which is understandable.

  • @nicolataylor6011
    @nicolataylor6011 5 лет назад +244

    How slim everyone looked back then

    • @sunkat76
      @sunkat76 5 лет назад +25

      In the days before 3 for 2 and BOGOFs when people lived by the thinking of 'it's not a bargain if you don't need it'

    • @portcullis5622
      @portcullis5622 5 лет назад +32

      It was all that smoking. Not enough time for snacks between meals!

    • @veraaddoyobo8482
      @veraaddoyobo8482 5 лет назад +22

      Yes there was no JUST EAT, you cook before you eat and then wash up, it help with your exercise

    • @meyergaelle8108
      @meyergaelle8108 4 года назад

      @StealthyMonk 🤣🤣🤣

    • @meyergaelle8108
      @meyergaelle8108 4 года назад +21

      Too much fast junk food nowadays

  • @truthmerchant1
    @truthmerchant1 3 года назад +20

    Does anyone remember the Cadbury Smash advert with the laughing aliens "They boil them for 20 of their minutes. Then they smash them all to bits! 😄😄😄

    • @bluesky-tu3cp
      @bluesky-tu3cp 3 года назад +3

      yes I remember and those ads always made us smile🙂

    • @grumpyoldman3458
      @grumpyoldman3458 3 года назад +3

      The ads were better than the product IMO, I never liked the taste of instant mash

  • @michaelmcdonnell5998
    @michaelmcdonnell5998 3 года назад +11

    Who remembers the Co-op divvy?

    • @Juliukas101
      @Juliukas101 6 месяцев назад +2

      I don't remember Green Shield stamps but the Co-Op stores had a similar thing with their Dividend stamps. Each page had to have 5x 40-point stamps or 40 x 5-point stamps and I would get really annoyed when my mum used to stick them on upside down!

  • @paulph12002
    @paulph12002 3 года назад +89

    Watching this in 2021 is very sad, a reminder of a much kinder and simpler British way of life that is long gone.

    • @jamesgallo7600
      @jamesgallo7600 3 года назад +7

      The British people are a lot kinder than they were back then

    • @juliette2439
      @juliette2439 3 года назад +4

      I had a care free childhood ..Now we are dealing with depression, autism and array of disturbing ailments in children ..So sad

    • @jamesgallo7600
      @jamesgallo7600 3 года назад +9

      @@juliette2439 people still suffered from mental illness back then, it just wasn’t spoken about. Children never received help with it, they were expected just to get on with it. I’m glad you had a care free childhood but not everyone was as lucky as you, you probably look back at old times and remember all the good bits. You look at it with rose tinted glasses

    • @juicytea8297
      @juicytea8297 3 года назад +4

      @@juliette2439 what’s autism got to do with this generation you idiot. Autism happened hundreds off years ago too! But it was never brought on because everyone should’ve just dealt with it.

    • @marymary5494
      @marymary5494 3 года назад +7

      Not to mention the child abuse and racism@@jamesgallo7600

  • @phillipecook3227
    @phillipecook3227 3 года назад +40

    Christ ordinary punters were well spoken then, never mind the presenters. And Cadbury's Smash ....

    • @christineayres5339
      @christineayres5339 3 года назад +6

      Nowadays try interviewing someone Alright Bruv whats the Score ? lol

    • @tdonovan4735
      @tdonovan4735 3 года назад +2

      @@christineayres5339 Back then it was apples and pairs and cor blimey guv'nor.

    • @christineayres5339
      @christineayres5339 3 года назад +2

      @@tdonovan4735 LOL id definitely say the gangstas back then were harder though , just watch that movie about the Kray twins they used to do really nasty stuff to their enemies, or that Scum movie which sadly was not exagerrating

    • @christineayres5339
      @christineayres5339 3 года назад +2

      @K90_ 2019 I wish much better people back then

    • @watermarginramsgate180
      @watermarginramsgate180 3 года назад

      @@christineayres5339 no they weren't all mythology

  • @veronicaelsegood5175
    @veronicaelsegood5175 3 года назад +10

    Times constantly change . Nostalgia is fine but I think the basis for " the good old days" is the people that you love being alive and with you.

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад

      That is a big part of it but honestly, given the choice I would genuinely go back to simpler times if I could.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 месяцев назад

      This is about 18 months before I was born. Interesting to see.

  • @Thereishope664
    @Thereishope664 5 лет назад +110

    So much easier to understand what the people are saying, no 'like' and 'innit' at the end of every sentence.

    • @alfching2499
      @alfching2499 5 лет назад +8

      Nowadays the stupid Phone does most people’s thinking for them.innit

    • @stonedbatman2067
      @stonedbatman2067 5 лет назад +8

      Yeah init bruh...

    • @veraaddoyobo8482
      @veraaddoyobo8482 5 лет назад +3

      @StealthyMonk and basically

    • @helenblackburn6162
      @helenblackburn6162 5 лет назад +8

      No one starting their sentences with “So” or finishing them with “know what I mean”.

    • @Helen_590
      @Helen_590 5 лет назад +6

      So, I think, like ,you need to come down to the south east, innit. Coz like , they dont talk ,like all crazy and shit, you know what I mean bruh ?

  • @CBTCFT
    @CBTCFT 3 года назад +17

    It was important to point out that the beefburgers were, with onion... I bet that cost at least 1/2p more!

    • @MrEdrftgyuji
      @MrEdrftgyuji 3 года назад +2

      It means they could replace a big chunk of the beef content with minced onion.

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад

      @@MrEdrftgyuji onion powder .......😁

  • @juliebrooke6099
    @juliebrooke6099 3 года назад +21

    Funny how the women guests in the studio were referred to as Mrs. Whoever rather than by their first names.

    • @eboulter
      @eboulter 3 года назад +9

      I love how elegantly the presenters spoke back then. Beautifully dressed as well.

    • @patricaoreilly2143
      @patricaoreilly2143 3 года назад +10

      Its called respect. You only call someone by their 1st name if you know them very well & had permission to do so

    • @mattylamb9194
      @mattylamb9194 2 года назад

      @@patricaoreilly2143 - I hate being called by my surname. Even with "Mr being put in front of it

  • @melgrant7404
    @melgrant7404 5 лет назад +60

    Alan Partridge doing his shopping

  • @amtownsyou
    @amtownsyou 5 лет назад +62

    4 beef burgers for 49p??? Does anyone have a time machine that I can borrow?? I'll need about 5 shopping baskets too

    • @logicalnetwork1611
      @logicalnetwork1611 5 лет назад +4

      93 til infinity510 but coffee seemed so expensive back then ?

    • @johnpiper3416
      @johnpiper3416 5 лет назад +2

      93 til infinity510 Great comment, let's take a bloody petrol tanker back in time and save more than a few quid.

    • @macraghnaill3553
      @macraghnaill3553 5 лет назад +2

      @Gary Whittaker I was earning around £27 in 1977, not a high wage but some were lower

    • @tvmraf
      @tvmraf 5 лет назад +6

      @Gary Whittaker Average wage was much more than £6 as I was on £1 an hour as a 18 year old ,, £6 would mean you could not afford that jar of coffee which cost over a quid,

    • @KirkJacobsonHere
      @KirkJacobsonHere 4 года назад +7

      ​@@tvmraf Yeah, as a youngun, you were on about the lowest rate. The average weekly wage at the time was £68.70 according to the ONS.
      The prices still weren't cheap though. Those burgers were swelled up with rusk and fat. The equivalent today would cost about £2, whereas the 49p in 1977 would be over £3 now.

  • @templarknight5557
    @templarknight5557 5 лет назад +36

    And supermarkets just kept increasing prices and making smaller every item they can while destroying local markets to force people to buy from supermarkets. I am still annoyed the Digestive biscuit couldnt fit in your cup to dunk it in those days. Now you can fit 4 in a cup. Robbing us blind while they throw away enough food to feed Africa every week. Disgusting.

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 5 лет назад +4

      Agree.you get that ripped off feeling everytime you shop at supermarkets.like looking at all products that seem to contain more air in the packet than the actual product.

    • @jdh6752
      @jdh6752 5 лет назад +1

      Adjusted for inflation, everything in this video was more expensive in 1977. And McVities are the same size. I have one of those cylindrical packet-size storage tins from the 70s, and it's exactly the same width as a packet today.

    • @agfagaevart
      @agfagaevart 5 лет назад +5

      Sainsburys own brand digestives used to be nearly 2 foot long! Not now tho. Someone must have complained to them about "...encouraging greed"

    • @KillieGuy1
      @KillieGuy1 5 лет назад +1

      Food has never been so cheap or plentiful but don't let that stop a good moan.
      Use an inflation calculator to compare. You'll be surprised.

    • @jdh6752
      @jdh6752 5 лет назад

      @@destinationmobileone5476 I wouldn't know anything about Wagon Wheels. My mother considered them "common", so I wasn't allowed them.

  • @Latbirget
    @Latbirget 3 года назад +19

    As a child in the 70s the grown ups did talk a lot about the prices of food. Not surprising if there were whole programmes on the subject.

    • @zeddeka
      @zeddeka 2 года назад

      we're seeing something similar now too. The reason? because both eras have massive inflation. prices went up substantially from day to day, week to week.

    • @hellfirepictures
      @hellfirepictures Год назад

      My grandfather talks the prices of food every day now, 50 years later. It was nothing to do with their being 'whole programmes on it - it was to do with the high levels of poverty people were facing, and are again facing now.

    • @Latbirget
      @Latbirget Год назад

      @@hellfirepictures My comment was 2 years ago before the current cost of living crisis probably nearer 3 years ago. I realise everyone talks about it now. I was a child in the 70s so I didn't watch programmes like this back then, and we didn't have a TV from 75-79 so I didn't watch anything at all. I don't have a TV now so I can't comment on whether they have programmes like this now. I would bet they don't but I am aware that news shows talk about the cost of food and inflation. I'm also aware that the inflation was the reason behind these programmes but I still find it surprising that a whole programme was dedicated to ladies showing the contents of their shopping and comparing (I can't remember exactly what the clip was about). Anything wrong at being surprised at this over two years ago? If I had seen the clip now I wouldn't have been so surprised in view of the current crisis and I probably wouldn't be so surprised and make the same comment. Chill out comment police.

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад

      And now the 'hot topic' is which mediocre dancer will be voted off of which Ken and Barbie from 'Love' Island will cheat on their respective partners back home. Oh how times change, sadly.

  • @torg0
    @torg0 5 лет назад +9

    The quality of this is outstanding!

  • @davegalea6689
    @davegalea6689 5 лет назад +21

    I remembered those Green Shield Stamps and I really miss the 60's and 70's. wish we had a Time Machine.

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 5 лет назад +6

      Agree. I was happy back then

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@melgrant7404
      Whichever one of us discovers the time machine first has to promise to come back for the others!

  • @kaelaleedaley
    @kaelaleedaley 5 лет назад +61

    Tesco being the cheapest! How times change 😊 They've gotten much more expensive in the last 10 years, especially poor value when compared to the quality and prices at Aldi x

    • @Locutus
      @Locutus 4 года назад +5

      I actually find Tesco branded products to be better quality, and a similar price than to Aldi's.

    • @liamhartley1533
      @liamhartley1533 4 года назад +4

      Yes I've shopped at Tesco for years - my local big one is very good, but they are pricy. I like Sainsbury's too and I find Tesco dearer

    • @prestcoldandy910
      @prestcoldandy910 3 года назад +2

      @@liamhartley1533 I wouldent shop anywhere but waitrose

    • @liamhartley1533
      @liamhartley1533 3 года назад +4

      @@prestcoldandy910 Sorry I don’t like them, found them really overrated, to me Waitrose are a “emperors new clothes” situation; like Thornton’s and JL ironically. Luckily though where I am, if I want true luxury food we have Booths supermarkets.

    • @kaelaleedaley
      @kaelaleedaley 3 года назад

      Sorry guys, I haven't seen this until now! It's amazing how different our tastes are, isn't it!? I pray you are all able to find food affordable in your local area now what with shortages going on, some of us HAVE to shop around and accept food that we consider of "lesser" quality than our preference. I personally find the food at Home Bargains to be very tempting but overpriced and heavily processed. I have a medical condition which is directly affected by consuming processed foods so we cook and bake almost all our meals at home (with the exception of a meal out when with family or the occasional chip shop chips) :D Do you find Home Bargains useful for your weekly/bi-weekly/monthly shop? Xx

  • @jules151968
    @jules151968 3 года назад +20

    You could exchange your stamp books for gifts, got a Scorpion Tank (Action man) with mine.

  • @jemmajames6719
    @jemmajames6719 4 года назад +24

    This looks like a spoof now, 🤣 even the trolleys were smaller.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 месяцев назад +1

      Why spoof?

  • @TheRealToneJunkie
    @TheRealToneJunkie 3 года назад +3

    Joan Shenton is still my secret crush. Such a superbly well rounded presenter with a beautiful personality.

  • @paddy1437
    @paddy1437 5 лет назад +22

    Awesome. Thank you for sharing. Please upload more 1970s, 1980s everyday life clips :)

  • @idrissaebrahim3261
    @idrissaebrahim3261 5 лет назад +6

    I love how polite and beautifully spoken she is

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 5 месяцев назад

      Which one?

  • @karldelavigne8134
    @karldelavigne8134 3 года назад +9

    I can be nostalgic about the prices, but not the crap they were selling.

    • @karldelavigne8134
      @karldelavigne8134 3 года назад +1

      @Pdpmail No, there were more chemicals then, particularly dangerous food colours, and very bad margarine.

  • @pmc8119
    @pmc8119 Год назад +3

    And here we are in 2022, WISHING those prices were still around!

  • @patrickeffiom97
    @patrickeffiom97 5 лет назад +26

    Joan Shenton was gorgeous...I must have been about 9 when this was broadcast.

    • @TheFokker03
      @TheFokker03 5 лет назад +4

      Kenny Everett called her 'wobblers' shenton!

    • @borderlord
      @borderlord 5 лет назад +1

      1970sthrowback 😂😂😂

    • @gary1961
      @gary1961 4 года назад +6

      @@1970sthrowback She looks like most of the women in the Danish hard core porn mags I borrowed off a friend of mine in 1976.

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing 3 года назад +1

      @@gary1961 Excellent

    • @emilemacdonald6277
      @emilemacdonald6277 3 года назад +3

      Literally said it looked down and saw that comment.... She was hot and i was born in 82 lol

  • @stho9459
    @stho9459 3 года назад +9

    When life was so much simpler and people seemed much less stressed.... And I was only 1year old

    • @oliverpearson1577
      @oliverpearson1577 3 года назад

      Life was just as stressful then as it is now.

    • @stho9459
      @stho9459 3 года назад +1

      @@oliverpearson1577 I remember life being less stressful in the 1990s so I guess it's subjective 😂

    • @oliverpearson1577
      @oliverpearson1577 3 года назад

      @@stho9459 Of course. Life is stressful whenever you live. That will never change.

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад

      Britain was british then ....not foreign .....why africans here ??????????

  • @chilli-soup
    @chilli-soup 5 лет назад +20

    Me and Mrs Jones we gotta thing going on.

  • @douglasdavies4128
    @douglasdavies4128 5 лет назад +7

    .littlegee...This was the death nail to Green Shield Trading stamps, and the end of the greatest job I ever had. Nearly ten years working for Green Shield and loved every day of it. This was in the day’s most employers treated you with respect and not a number on the pay role. When you had a personnel department and not a human resources department that treated you as a commodity on the shelf. They gave out gold pin badges for five and ten years’ service presented at a party, I have just retired from another job after thirty five years’ service to them and not one of the management could be bothered to come and shake my hand on the last day. These are sad days for the way humanity is treated by the bosses of today.

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад

      'Britain ' has become like africa ........a sad shame ....!!

    • @douglasdavies4128
      @douglasdavies4128 2 года назад

      @@krishnan-resurrection714 ...Strange comment! Please explain?

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад

      @@douglasdavies4128 ..what is 'strange' about it ? ......Not thick are you ......😁😆

    • @douglasdavies4128
      @douglasdavies4128 2 года назад

      @@krishnan-resurrection714 No! not thick, but you are not a nice person. No further communication will be be replied to, so don't waste your time. 🤫🤐

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад

      @@douglasdavies4128 WHATEVER

  • @tezzingtonsir28
    @tezzingtonsir28 5 лет назад +23

    Those beef burgers looked nothing like beef.

    • @OffGridInvestor
      @OffGridInvestor 5 лет назад +2

      Welcome to British "beef". Worse than the crap we feed our dogs here in Australia because of SO MUCH OFAL. Over here people ofal is only in very low generic pies. And most people only buy that brand once and after they smell the ofal they never buy it again.

    • @YehoodToob
      @YehoodToob 5 лет назад +1

      They looked like onion burgers, with beef.

    • @Veniceredmask01
      @Veniceredmask01 5 лет назад +2

      Solant green

    • @NoLefTurnUnStoned.
      @NoLefTurnUnStoned. 5 лет назад +2

      Trey Styles
      Mad cow burgers

    • @phoenixtrades150
      @phoenixtrades150 4 года назад

      Known in the Phoenix household as Murder Burgers...

  • @softshallow7435
    @softshallow7435 3 года назад +12

    Nothing new there. Like that young lady in video said “They say they going to do this going to do that, they never do.” With any company!

  • @Viewingpublic08
    @Viewingpublic08 3 года назад +2

    Presenter Joan Shenton - a familiar face on TV back then.

  • @susanhill8332
    @susanhill8332 3 года назад +13

    Aah take me back to the 70s, even if Tesco's were ripping people off then as well. Tesco's still ripping us off but the world is a far crazier place.

    • @hellfirepictures
      @hellfirepictures Год назад

      They're definitely not ripping you off. You just have no concept of the actual value of food. Which is why food is about 1/3rd of the price today as it was back then.

    • @skylined5534
      @skylined5534 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@hellfirepictures
      I'd love to know how you arrived at that made up statistic.

  • @AlanTaylorCRSmusicproduction
    @AlanTaylorCRSmusicproduction 3 года назад +4

    My mum used to give me her full green shield stamp books and i would use them to buy toys.

  • @callumhardy5098
    @callumhardy5098 5 лет назад +46

    ThamesTV,
    Your a great channel it’s a shame you have been reduced from a great broadcaster to a small RUclips channel but your still producing great things as usual!

    • @stephensaunders1845
      @stephensaunders1845 5 лет назад +3

      They're a bit more than that - Thames makes the X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, among many other shows. It's the UK arm of Fremantle, a huge multinational media company.

    • @callumhardy5098
      @callumhardy5098 5 лет назад +2

      @@stephensaunders1845
      really!, OH! well glad to see they are still going as a great Broadcasting company!.

    • @NoLefTurnUnStoned.
      @NoLefTurnUnStoned. 5 лет назад +1

      callum hardy
      Yeah, I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this seems strangely dated.

    • @callumhardy5098
      @callumhardy5098 4 года назад

      Hitogokochi
      Never said it was

    • @callumhardy5098
      @callumhardy5098 4 года назад

      Hitogokochi
      Yes i did.
      “Take the knee” and “respect” oh dear I fear I am talking with an American, Oh well at least I wont have to guess at the fact that you might be stupid.

  • @natianatia351
    @natianatia351 5 лет назад +6

    People were nice then

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 5 лет назад +2

      Agree.not rude and self centred like now.

    • @misst.e.a.187
      @misst.e.a.187 5 лет назад +1

      Were they? I don't recall that so much

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 5 лет назад

      @@misst.e.a.187 what did you think of the people at that time then.

  • @Dr.D00p
    @Dr.D00p 5 лет назад +36

    It's that man again, Tony Bastable!
    Thames TV sure did get their money's worth out of him....

    • @gaygambler
      @gaygambler 5 лет назад +3

      Martin Mac it’s the original Alan partridge

    • @TheHorsebox2
      @TheHorsebox2 5 лет назад +2

      Could turn his hand to anything.

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 5 лет назад +1

      @@gaygambler love Alan.

    • @djdoolittle1315
      @djdoolittle1315 5 лет назад +1

      Anthony Ó Súileabháin 😂💚☝️

    • @weerobot
      @weerobot 5 лет назад

      He still working for them in the ITV catacombs...

  • @Jade-pd3wm
    @Jade-pd3wm 5 лет назад +19

    i remember my mum collecting books and books of these stamps. i dont know what she used them for. perhaps christmas presents for me and my siblings.

    • @fasthracing
      @fasthracing 3 года назад +1

      She prob bought drugs with them

    • @marypoppins8083
      @marypoppins8083 3 года назад +1

      @@fasthracing LOL why say that haha

  • @catherinewholey3630
    @catherinewholey3630 5 лет назад +24

    Those prices! Had almost forgotten an item could be "something and a half" pence.People seem calmer some how.Before social media,faster paced times and technology made people a bit edgier

    • @krishnan-resurrection714
      @krishnan-resurrection714 2 года назад

      people were generally of sounder mind then ....before 'Government' tried to make them sick/ mad ....using Hex..... !!!!!!

  • @Ftanftangfnarrr
    @Ftanftangfnarrr 3 года назад +1

    This is my favourite clip on RUclips

  • @mommom-jy5jb
    @mommom-jy5jb 2 года назад +3

    In the USA we had Green Stamps and Top Value Stamps, they were yellow. The cashier would scroll the amount of stamps due the customer, and if you were lucky enough to be behind a customer who didn't want them, the cashier would give us ours plus theirs as well. If felt like a mini lottery win!

  • @chaseariohd7700
    @chaseariohd7700 4 года назад +2

    These people speak very intelligently and are well spoken

  • @kevodowd5282
    @kevodowd5282 3 года назад +7

    The shop's up North are still cheaper than down here in the South!

  • @w1lf1ewoo
    @w1lf1ewoo 5 лет назад +11

    Im watching this with a beautiful sunset on a ferry in hong kong - whats wrong with me

  • @swaneknoctic9555
    @swaneknoctic9555 5 лет назад +15

    3:17 I think Mr Bastable has been overdoing it with the hair colouring.

    • @manchestertart5614
      @manchestertart5614 4 года назад +1

      Jonathan Ross and Rick Astley 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @L-mo
      @L-mo 4 года назад

      Lol

  • @GMT439
    @GMT439 7 месяцев назад +2

    Much better times than today.

  • @PtolemyJones
    @PtolemyJones 3 года назад +8

    Sorry, but as an American seeing that Thames opening makes me expect Benny Hill.

    • @jayleigh4642
      @jayleigh4642 3 года назад

      Bless ya

    • @jules151968
      @jules151968 3 года назад

      lol.

    • @hickster222
      @hickster222 3 года назад

      Can't beat a bit of Benny Hill.... what a legend.

    • @jakmak1199
      @jakmak1199 3 года назад

      or This is your life.

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller 3 года назад

      i've been in the u.s., for the last forty years and all i expect is general kenny everett and so far haven't been disappointed

  • @johncrilly3126
    @johncrilly3126 3 года назад +1

    the way they speak is lovely!

  • @WorksopGimp
    @WorksopGimp 5 лет назад +12

    Bandits in the arcades used to pay out in green shield stamps

  • @kymrawlins8099
    @kymrawlins8099 3 года назад +4

    This was a REALLY good programme. I remember watching this often though I didnt always understand (I was a young kid at the time) but I knew it was good.
    Some of the comments mention how good the women looked.
    They really shopped, we still had proper green grocers very few of the supermarkets were the size they are now.
    But people cooked from scratch, microwaves was a luxury kitchen item a ready meal was scarce and was a treat for something different. People bought what they needed and maybe an extra tim or packet to put away for christmas, very little impulse food purchasing. More patience and less speed. Now everything is geared towards the opposite convenience and super fast more Junk available more sugar.

  • @sarahedwards9774
    @sarahedwards9774 3 года назад +10

    It’s like watching the conception of Alan Partridge, This Morning and The One Show! This is awesome 1970 TV.

  • @elenavassilieva9406
    @elenavassilieva9406 3 года назад +2

    British ladies were known to be elegant and well educated, in fact they were.

  • @AtheistOrphan
    @AtheistOrphan 5 лет назад +14

    And Green Shield Stamps begat Argos.

  • @mikeyfoxy8794
    @mikeyfoxy8794 5 лет назад +5

    I remember the Green Shield catalogue. Most expensive item was a Ford Anglia @ 950 books

  • @kdp8133
    @kdp8133 3 года назад +4

    I worked for Tesco at this time. I was 17 and my wages were all spent on following Queen around. Those were the days (of our lives lol) It used to be double stamps on a Thursday!!

  • @craigsips8677
    @craigsips8677 3 года назад +3

    Food prices haven’t gone up that much. Surprised

    • @sko1beer
      @sko1beer 3 года назад +2

      Price of instant coffee has not changed much

  • @thewatcheronthewall85
    @thewatcheronthewall85 5 лет назад +10

    Back when England was England.

    • @dorismay4411
      @dorismay4411 4 года назад +1

      Thewatcheronthewall so true we won’t have that back ever again

  • @paulsurbitonryan9632
    @paulsurbitonryan9632 3 года назад +5

    There’s something very Alan Partridge about Tony Bastable.

  • @robinvanags912
    @robinvanags912 5 лет назад +6

    Tony di Angeli - remembered for his regular Thursday slot on BBC Radio 2's Jimmy Young Show

  • @anonymous0121
    @anonymous0121 4 года назад +2

    Love watching these... Blast from the past, I've still got some of my mom's green shield stamps in a bag of hers I have pre 71".

  • @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus
    @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus 5 лет назад +3

    I enjoyed this. Mum collected Green Shield Stamps for years and got some nice items. We still have a few of them. Noticed the food prices this week are starting to creep up.

  • @VintageMillyBooks
    @VintageMillyBooks 5 лет назад +22

    Lol I wish these were the prices now! My Mum used to buy ‘Camp’ coffee which was in liquid form and she only used loose tea not tea bags.

    • @helencoven
      @helencoven 5 лет назад +3

      Same here! Glad I wasn’t a coffee drinker back then.lol.my mum had that same bottle of camp coffee until about 15 years ago when I cleaned her kitchen cupboards out!🌸🙂

    • @dawnfinch8232
      @dawnfinch8232 5 лет назад +1

      My mum used to get that for Dad the rest of us hated it

    • @grotekleum
      @grotekleum 3 года назад

      My mum said tea bags were just the sweepings off the floor. I think they still are. Can't seem to buy loose tea anywhere.

    • @prestcoldandy910
      @prestcoldandy910 3 года назад +1

      @@helencoven I remember five pints milk powder, and ajax cleaner

    • @grotekleum
      @grotekleum 3 года назад

      @@simonrobbins8357 Ah yes, indeed on closer examination I did find Earl Grey and English Breakfast (both Twinings) as loose tea in Tesco's Enniskillen NI, but this is fairly recent; nothing in Asda (when I looked) and I did find them in M&S (2 own brand), but not what I wanted - so a partial recantation in this instance. I did not find any other brands such as you mention. So I guess there is loose leaf tea out there, but not like it used to be when bags were fewer.

  • @MissLondon.born.1965
    @MissLondon.born.1965 3 года назад +3

    My old Nan would save these up ,And i would stick them in the books,Happy Days x

  • @51516
    @51516 5 лет назад +9

    That tin of Beef Whiskers Super Meat must be worth a fortune today!

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo 5 лет назад +4

    Fascinating. People spoke so differently then. I was 2 when this was made.

  • @MR-tq2tu
    @MR-tq2tu 3 года назад +1

    I would like to go back to 1975 to 1980 from 11 years old to 16 years old and keep repeating those years and ages

  • @DarrenJCalvert
    @DarrenJCalvert 5 лет назад +6

    I’m shocked that they actually priced the items! Who told them to stop doing that! Lol

  • @ingiemummalove130
    @ingiemummalove130 4 года назад +2

    OMG this oozes such boredom. I love all the old videos but so glad it’s not like this anymore!

  • @Yorosero
    @Yorosero 3 года назад +1

    £1.16 for a small jar of coffee is quite high for the 70's.

  • @k20aa
    @k20aa 5 лет назад +15

    That was TV Gold

  • @nickhickson8738
    @nickhickson8738 3 года назад +2

    No BAMES in this video! How very dare they.

  • @TheVote2010
    @TheVote2010 5 лет назад +64

    Everyone shocked at how cheap it all is... and here’s me in the corner shocked to see English people in Ilford !

    • @Calvbread
      @Calvbread 5 лет назад +12

      Stop being a miserable old twat

    • @TheVote2010
      @TheVote2010 5 лет назад +31

      Svsca 2020 not being miserable, just telling the truth. Been down Ilford high road recently? Lol

    • @adaline2479
      @adaline2479 5 лет назад +11

      Patrick Martin Who cares? It’s 2019, we’re all human, don’t be a racist.

    • @TheVote2010
      @TheVote2010 5 лет назад +28

      Adaline it’s not 2019 in the video, and I was making a point about seeing so many English people in Ilford. How is that racist?

    • @adaline2479
      @adaline2479 5 лет назад +8

      Patrick Martin Are you just completely stupid? You’re making a point of saying about the English people present there, which in turn means they’re no longer there and ‘replaced’ by immigrants. A normal person with no prejudices wouldn’t blink an eye at this, but the fact you do clearly means that you have a problem with it. A non-racist person wouldn’t make a point of mentioning the lack of English people in an area.
      Oh and also, it may be 1977 in the video, but your racist attitude was commented in 2019. Perhaps you would be better suited in the timeframe of the video

  • @melgrant7404
    @melgrant7404 4 года назад +2

    Love seeing the old brands

  • @nativenewlondoner
    @nativenewlondoner 3 года назад +3

    Someone needs to tell both presenters that the shop is called Tesco, not Tescos

    • @adoremus4014
      @adoremus4014 3 года назад

      Tesco's; it's possessive meaning Tesco's supermarket

    • @atomictraveller
      @atomictraveller 3 года назад

      if its called poo face it doesn't matter what it says on it, its called poo face.

  • @sophiaearls7335
    @sophiaearls7335 3 года назад +4

    I love that female presenters voice..like asmr 😍