People should take into account that people's wages in the 1970s were generally lower than they are today. Even though the prices look cheap by today's standards, people can buy food more cheaply today than 30 years ago. Today we also have supermarkets' own value brands which are heavily discounted. There were very few of these in the 70s: it was mainly branded items and the few cheaper 'own brands' available tasted rank!
£1 in 1977 was like spending £5.57 as of July 2023. That is according to Bank of England website. A 6 pack of Penguin which was 19.5p back then would now cost 5.57x0.195 which makes approx £1.09. Tesco are flogging a seven pack for £1.50 now, so at least as far as a choccy biccie for your elevensies goes, you’d be better off warping back to 1977. The same goes for a single tin of Heinz beans, price has doubled from equivalent of 70p to £1.40.
As a Brit, nothing defines me like a slice of cold, crispy, thickly buttered toast, eaten with a cold hard boiled egg! ... That's part of my breakfast every day! 👍😋
We don't realise how well off we are now. So 30 years ago those items were about 25% of what they are now but wages were only about 10% of today. Thanks for putting the video up.
Absolutely. The prices here look cheap to modern eyes, but that's not taking into account how very expensive they were to the average person back then.
What some of the earlier comments seem to forget, is that although the prices look cheap compared to today, back in 1977 wages were hell of alot lower than nowadays, Tesco were still ripping people off back then as they do today.
Yep, but I haven't seen any. Everything's gone up :( I liked the voice-over on this advert. He wasn't like the voices you hear today - usually screechy, immature women that try to feign a sense of friendliness by smiling when talking.
@@th8257 A can of evaporated milk is only 59p in Aldi today. (But £1.65 on Ocado) Cheap own brand butter is about £2. (I hate cheap butter hence I buy Président or Lurpak) The Heinz baked bean cans are about 75p each on multibuy, although they've gotten slightly smaller (they are 415g now - which is I think about 1 ounce less than the can from 1977). Those Tesco "low-calorie drinks" looked horrible and were probably full of E-numbers and rubbish. I only buy French orange or grapefruit juice and mineral water. What strikes me more than anything is just how drab and dreary the products were. No tenderstem broccoli, avocados or vine tomatoes. Everything looked cheap, although compared to wages then I guess they probably weren't so cheap. I would love to be able to step back in time and pop into Tesco and see the offers and weird retro products and designs.
Comparatively speakinh things are actually cheaper now than they were then. For example, using the BOE inflation calculator for 1977 the 6 pack of penguins at 19.5p should cost £1.15 now. In the convenience store next door to me a 6 pack of penguins is currently £1.00
mikem1966 | Because the Half Penny coin that worth Half Pence / Half P / ½p is still in circulation, and remained in use until 1984. That way the United Kingdom still have the ability to the divide the Pound Sterling into 200 pieces, like the old 240 pieces in the old £sd system (or 480 pieces using Half Penny, or 960 pieces using Farthing). Unlike today where they're limited to only 100 pieces. The UK economy probably would have improved more if they used an accounting only units, such as a Mil (aka tenth Centh) or even a hundrenth of a Cent. It allowed Customers to have a simpler currency, but still allow merchants to have a much more flexible price. Like for example, the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR). The lowest Coin Denomination is 100 Rupiah. But they still used 1~99 Rupiah in pricing. The amount paid is rounded to the nearest hundred, unless you pay using electronic transfer.
??? Do you understand inflation? Multiply the prices by about 8.41 to get the equivalent in 2023 money. None of the prices there are what you'd call cheap. I don't think anyone in their right mind would ever say food was better in the UK in the 1970s......
Anyone recognise the voice over..??? It's Del Boys father in law James (Raquels Dad) the one who finds The Pocket watch in the garage which makes them Millionaires
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?
Kids today! 1/2p was an actual coin that was used then. They were smaller than a 1p coin, were were withdrawn from circulation sometime in the early 80's.
Thanks for the reminder but there really was no need as i am fully aware of what the 19 1/2p mentioned in the advert is worth in today's money. My comment was nothing to do with the prices and everything to do with the actual value hence my original comment.
No problem at all. I probably should have explained it better but what i meant was that at time of the advert Tesco were one of the higher discounters of food but that doesn't seem to the case now as they have been overtaken in that by Lidl and Aldi..
Lol, of course the funny thing is that by 1977, with Jack Cohen's low margins strategy, Tesco was in serious trouble, and analysts recommended changing the name as part of taking the stores upmarket. Hard to believe today!
Hi Dave - your assessment is so right - money has been bleached from just about everywhere now, but not so much from supermarkets (they are on high exposure for all to see) but the more hidden sharks of limitless greed in that parasite institution, the city. That place only exists for its own goals of getting rich itself on the backs of the real earners. Viz: a company does well - its shares rise in value, some stockbroker jerk in the middle gets a fat bonus for simply flogging those shares on.
Psychological. A bit like the 99p thing nowadays. People see the larger number to the left of the ½p and take that as the true cost. Adding the ½p on that ski was effectively a 14% price hike.
@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.
@azazel637 the half penny existed from decimalisation of curency until the coin was withdrawn from circulation in 1983 as it cost more to make the coin than it was worth. Before decimalisation there was also the fathing - worth 1/4 of a penny.
fantastic! They loved the 1/2p prices alright. it just gave the checkout girl (they were always girls) an extra button to click with her right hand. Yes, they never used barcodes back then. everything was manually added at the till
Many of those brands have disappeared now! Ski yoghurt, Chivers jam, and Quosh! I often wonder whatever happened to-- no not The Likely Lads, PanYan pickle!? I was very partial to PanYan pickle on my cheese sandwiches.
@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.
Jack Cohens idea was "Pile it high Sell It Low" He even launched Green Sheild Stamps In the Stores., Tesco were struggling so it was decided to close the stores for a few days and relaunch the company and since then it aint stopped.
@lcmortensen if you look closely that is what I said 'pre-decimalisation we had the fathing' I did not say it was worth 1/4 of a pence today. (stricly speaking 'penny' refers to pre decimalisation where as 'pence' is post-decimalisation)
@dramaking85 I'm sorry to say that the information presented in this advertisement has become erroneous due to the passage of time between it''s original broadcast and whenever it is you are viewing it on RUclips.
Bear in mind in 1977 the average weekly gross pay was £68. In 2015 it was £518 . These prices are probably more expensive in real terms; than prices today. White goods; TV's etc where very expensive compared to what people earned; compared to today. Good post though; interesting video.
I have been wide awake this evening with far too little to do, and I have just multiplied these prices by £5.57, which the Bank of England says is the July 2023 equivalent to one 1977 pound. I then compared them with what Tesco is flogging today, and food prices have more or less doubled since 1977. Heinz beans being an obvious culprit, working out at the modern equivalent of 70p per single tin - £1.40 nowadays. But yes, you can still get Stork and it’s double the price for a similar quantity. Jacobs Crackers are sold in 300g now, as opposed to 200g, but they’re still £1.70 a pack, and 64p for 200g in 77. Add an extra 100g and it works out at about 95p. So we’re being fleeced. The food industry, with all its flying products half way round the world and back, underpaying farmers in third world countries etc… are ruining the planet, and they are the only ones who stand to benefit. Tesco shareholder dividends tripled in the tax year 21-22, Sainsbury’s doubled in the same period. They can afford to do more to ease the burden than they’re doing.
The UK economy probably would have improved more if they used an accounting only units, such as a Mil (aka a tenth Cent) or even a hundrenth of a Cent. It allowed Customers to have a simpler currency, but still allow merchants to have a much more flexible pricing system. Like for example, the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR). The lowest Coin Denomination is 100 Rupiah. But they still used 1~99 Rupiah in pricing. The amount paid is rounded to the nearest hundred, unless you pay using electronic transfer. Heck, the UK economy would improved a lot if they used the Rupiah instead of the Pound Sterling.
Ski Yogs, Use to love them single poys something you dnt get these days nor in that shape. Prices looked cheap then but then in the 70's/80' food was still looked at as being expensive. Hence why you had Kwik Save, Victor Value, Lo-Cost Foodstores and Presto as discount foodstores,, Lidl, Netto and Aldi weren't even heard of in the UK.
Comparatively speaking, the items such as those advertised in this ad are cheaper now. Good quality electrical goods are much cheaper now than they were in 1977. On the other hand, the price of petrol is comparatively much higher, and, of course, it's much, much harder to get a foot on the property ladder.
"and a Half P", because the Half Penny coin that worth Half Pence / Half P / ½p was still in circulation, and remained in use until 1984. That way the United Kingdom still have the ability to the divide the Pound Sterling into 200 pieces, like the old 240 pieces in the old £sd system (or 480 pieces using Half Penny, or 960 pieces using Farthing). Unlike today where they're limited to only 100 pieces.
Don't forget that the imperial measurements skew things slightly. The 15 & 3/4 ounce Heinz bean can is bigger than the cans we have today, whereas the "half pound of Tesco butter" is smaller, at only 227g as opposed to the 250g packs we tend to see today. All those 1/2p prices were really annoying. Round them up or down!
People should take into account that people's wages in the 1970s were generally lower than they are today. Even though the prices look cheap by today's standards, people can buy food more cheaply today than 30 years ago.
Today we also have supermarkets' own value brands which are heavily discounted. There were very few of these in the 70s: it was mainly branded items and the few cheaper 'own brands' available tasted rank!
can we have these prices back.?.ha ha..
Clive Evans we would be rich if we didn't have to eat lol
They weren't aw cheap as they looked. Multiply them by 8.41 to get the equivalent in today's money
£1 in 1977 was like spending £5.57 as of July 2023. That is according to Bank of England website. A 6 pack of Penguin which was 19.5p back then would now cost 5.57x0.195 which makes approx £1.09. Tesco are flogging a seven pack for £1.50 now, so at least as far as a choccy biccie for your elevensies goes, you’d be better off warping back to 1977. The same goes for a single tin of Heinz beans, price has doubled from equivalent of 70p to £1.40.
Lol they would be empty shelfs every day
Evaporated milk, solid block of Tesco’s butter and a 6 pack of penguins. Nothing defines Britain like that.
u forgot baked beans
Went back to see what Penguins are. I'm American.😀
As a Brit, nothing defines me like a slice of cold, crispy, thickly buttered toast, eaten with a cold hard boiled egg! ... That's part of my breakfast every day! 👍😋
Pound of Tesco ground beef: 7 1/2 horse
0:33 i love how it just falls down
Yeah I don't think that was meant to happen lol
I remember loads of those old brand designs including the Ski yogurts in their strangely inverted cartons!
I don't remember those :(
The Heinz beans look largely the same. Did you notice how that evaporated milk tin fell off the top! ?
I suppose that's the 70's equivalent of having '.99p' at the end of everything.
We don't realise how well off we are now. So 30 years ago those items were about 25% of what they are now but wages were only about 10% of today. Thanks for putting the video up.
Absolutely. The prices here look cheap to modern eyes, but that's not taking into account how very expensive they were to the average person back then.
the heinz beans looks EXACTLY the same!!!
haha
a fifteen-and three-quarter ounce can! hahaha
What some of the earlier comments seem to forget, is that although the prices look cheap compared to today, back in 1977 wages were hell of alot lower than nowadays, Tesco were still ripping people off back then as they do today.
Absolutely. Multiply the prices by roughly 8.41 to get the equivalent in 2023 money
46 years later in 2023, we could do with "Price cuts that help keep the cost of living in check!" 👍🤣
Yep, but I haven't seen any. Everything's gone up :( I liked the voice-over on this advert. He wasn't like the voices you hear today - usually screechy, immature women that try to feign a sense of friendliness by smiling when talking.
I'm going straight down to Tescos at those prices!
Nowhere near as cheap as they look. Multiply the prices by 8.41 to get the equivalent in 2023 money
@@th8257 A can of evaporated milk is only 59p in Aldi today. (But £1.65 on Ocado) Cheap own brand butter is about £2. (I hate cheap butter hence I buy Président or Lurpak) The Heinz baked bean cans are about 75p each on multibuy, although they've gotten slightly smaller (they are 415g now - which is I think about 1 ounce less than the can from 1977). Those Tesco "low-calorie drinks" looked horrible and were probably full of E-numbers and rubbish. I only buy French orange or grapefruit juice and mineral water. What strikes me more than anything is just how drab and dreary the products were. No tenderstem broccoli, avocados or vine tomatoes. Everything looked cheap, although compared to wages then I guess they probably weren't so cheap. I would love to be able to step back in time and pop into Tesco and see the offers and weird retro products and designs.
Wish things were this cheap now.
Comparatively speakinh things are actually cheaper now than they were then. For example, using the BOE inflation calculator for 1977 the 6 pack of penguins at 19.5p should cost £1.15 now. In the convenience store next door to me a 6 pack of penguins is currently £1.00
Bring back the half penny I say!
Why?
Ireland1984 Then we would have 150 to 200p's in a pound doubling the worth of a pound in your pocket!
Martin Randall Are you joking? It's hard to tell
Ireland1984 Half joking, half not!
***** Look it was a ironic, sarcastic joke, so pipe down!
how come everything is 'something and a half p'
+mikem1966 x 1/2 p prices are the equivalent of today's £x.99 prices.
mikem1966 | Because the Half Penny coin that worth Half Pence / Half P / ½p is still in circulation, and remained in use until 1984. That way the United Kingdom still have the ability to the divide the Pound Sterling into 200 pieces, like the old 240 pieces in the old £sd system (or 480 pieces using Half Penny, or 960 pieces using Farthing).
Unlike today where they're limited to only 100 pieces. The UK economy probably would have improved more if they used an accounting only units, such as a Mil (aka tenth Centh) or even a hundrenth of a Cent. It allowed Customers to have a simpler currency, but still allow merchants to have a much more flexible price.
Like for example, the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR). The lowest Coin Denomination is 100 Rupiah. But they still used 1~99 Rupiah in pricing. The amount paid is rounded to the nearest hundred, unless you pay using electronic transfer.
@@johndaniels6347 So 1/2 p is the equivalent to almost £ 1.00?
When Tesco, prices and food were all so much better....the 1970s. We miss you.
Dearer then according to those prices except the butter , that's much cheaper, almost half price
??? Do you understand inflation? Multiply the prices by about 8.41 to get the equivalent in 2023 money. None of the prices there are what you'd call cheap. I don't think anyone in their right mind would ever say food was better in the UK in the 1970s......
@@zxz1 the butter is a "half pound". That's only about 225g. Just looked it up and Tesco's 250g butter is a similar price in real terms now.
@@th8257 ahh that's fair enough...was thinking it was the same size pack and I was doing a x7 for everything
Bring back fill sized Penguin bars i say
Trust
No club cards though
johnlrimmer at least they have green stamps
What a great advert. Lovely to see all those products again. Stork SB.😁
Hi Tescos - Thanks for letting me shoplift today. I spent £1.84 and came out with about £30 worth of stuff. Thanks. xxx
Anyone recognise the voice over..??? It's Del Boys father in law James (Raquels Dad) the one who finds The Pocket watch in the garage which makes them Millionaires
It's Michael Jayston.
Raquels dad is called alan parry btw
Michael Jayston from Zulu Dawn
This was when Tesco was all about selling food to the ordinary person, not like now flogging everything from credit cards to clothes!
26 and a half p for butter ! i wanna live in 1977 its so cheap !
I remember buying two dresses from Tesco’s in the Seventies, under their Delamare brand. They were excellent value for money!❤️
Sweet! retro 70's UK overload! :) Thanks for posting
When decimalisation was introduced in 1971 a box of Englands Glory matches cost 1/2p.
this was nearly 47 years ago
The voiceover is done by Michael Jayston - a fine actor.
Nice to see he is still with us :)
Lovely reassuring voice and clearly spoken.
@@HighTen_Melanie Yes, he had a good voice. He also did those St Ivel Gold ads!
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?
All those 1/2p's would have gone up when the 1/2 was scrapped.
Those were the days before some trendy young executive at Heinz said "I've got a great idea! Let's call them BEANZ to show how funky we are!"
And a merry xmas to you, Im145!
You've given me a standard to aim for this year. lets hope my missus sees it that way too.
I like it. To the point and it tells me just what I want to hear. I am going to go to Tesco right now!! :-D
lol at the ideal milk tin falling as the shot changes.
sale is over... just checked...
This is the same price as if you in aldi
I remember this advert being played in the cinema
before The Spy Who Loved Me started, in 1977.
Contains the Ivor the Engine Episode:
Retirement
love the old ads and the prices. so unbelievable and so were the wage packets back then. a few shillings a week and £1 a week for rent.
This is from 1977. Shillings had gone several years before.
Thanks Maurice, I'l keep my eyes peeled for a strawberry one, they were the best in my opinion. Take care.
That's a nice festive tale for us all to enjoy. I'm sure Gaz saw the funny side.
Kids today! 1/2p was an actual coin that was used then. They were smaller than a 1p coin, were were withdrawn from circulation sometime in the early 80's.
very nice tesco ad!
That's how we talked in London back in the day
When Tesco really were good value. Where did it all go wrong?
TheKarsino don't forget that 19 1/2 p is about £1.50 in today's money
Thanks for the reminder but there really was no need as i am fully aware of what the 19 1/2p mentioned in the advert is worth in today's money. My comment was nothing to do with the prices and everything to do with the actual value hence my original comment.
TheKarsino Sorry I slightly miss understood the original comment, I'm used to telling people that 5p could get you a bottle of coke. My bad
No problem at all. I probably should have explained it better but what i meant was that at time of the advert Tesco were one of the higher discounters of food but that doesn't seem to the case now as they have been overtaken in that by Lidl and Aldi..
Although it was cheap you have to remember that people didn't get as much money as today
Lol, of course the funny thing is that by 1977, with Jack Cohen's low margins strategy, Tesco was in serious trouble, and analysts recommended changing the name as part of taking the stores upmarket. Hard to believe today!
Hi Dave - your assessment is so right - money has been bleached from just about everywhere now, but not so much from supermarkets (they are on high exposure for all to see) but the more hidden sharks of limitless greed in that parasite institution, the city. That place only exists for its own goals of getting rich itself on the backs of the real earners. Viz: a company does well - its shares rise in value, some stockbroker jerk in the middle gets a fat bonus for simply flogging those shares on.
"Buy one, get one free"! Really old video, but I like it, thanks for share.
Psychological. A bit like the 99p thing nowadays. People see the larger number to the left of the ½p and take that as the true cost.
Adding the ½p on that ski was effectively a 14% price hike.
I LOVE TESCO NOW!!!!
Is the sale still on?
Sunny Days I wish.
Legend has it...
no
Ah, the good old days when we had shops. Now all we've got are empty buildings used by junkies and alkies.
@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.
@azazel637 the half penny existed from decimalisation of curency until the coin was withdrawn from circulation in 1983 as it cost more to make the coin than it was worth. Before decimalisation there was also the fathing - worth 1/4 of a penny.
Their prices don’t do things by halves!
This is using an older system at the time, before pounds and pence were simplified with the newer system.
i dont know why but this advert and all the other old adverts make me feel so warm inside and makes being from uk feel so good lol
You probably need to get out a bit more.
Them were the days 👍
fantastic! They loved the 1/2p prices alright. it just gave the checkout girl (they were always girls) an extra button to click with her right hand. Yes, they never used barcodes back then. everything was manually added at the till
Many of those brands have disappeared now! Ski yoghurt, Chivers jam, and Quosh! I often wonder whatever happened to-- no not The Likely Lads, PanYan pickle!? I was very partial to PanYan pickle on my cheese sandwiches.
MrBlueSky474 i loved the pear Ski yoghurts, still miss them!
right i am going to tesco!
Hopefully we will return to Imperial soon!
Why do we have to have 454g of Jam, why not a lb?
Why 2.2 litres of milk, why not 4 pints?
OMG that was the year i was born.. now i feel old !! hahahaa
We got through a lot of 1/2p coins back in those days!!
Whatever happened to Quosh?
FL34747 loved the stuff :)
FL34747 and does anybody remember treetop orange squash
“For Squash get Quosh” wasn’t that the slogan? I used to love the stuff as a kid.
I guess they quashed it.
VIMTO!
@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.
And in the isle of man we still have our pound notes.
The Isle of Man is a funny place. Not quite England, and not quite Ireland.
I was looking for people looking for fnaf toys in tesco and then I find this video, sick. ✨
I love how the evaporated milk falls.
@Kousaburo When decimal currency was introduced in 1971 there was a ½p coin. The ½p coin ceased to be legal tender at the end of 1983.
Jack Cohens idea was "Pile it high Sell It Low" He even launched Green Sheild Stamps In the Stores., Tesco were struggling so it was decided to close the stores for a few days and relaunch the company and since then it aint stopped.
Old Tesco Advert from 1977 - Checkout Groceries
I wish it was like that now!!!!!!
Like what? The prices aren't cheap here. Multiply them by 8.41 to get the equivalents in 2023 money.
You will never see these prices again
VO: Michael Jayston
O O O the good old days
@lcmortensen if you look closely that is what I said 'pre-decimalisation we had the fathing' I did not say it was worth 1/4 of a pence today. (stricly speaking 'penny' refers to pre decimalisation where as 'pence' is post-decimalisation)
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 =-/
That was pretty groovy, are those offers still available today?
Strange: pounds, ounces, grammes and litres were used in that advert!
Have a nice day. :-)
@dramaking85
I'm sorry to say that the information presented in this advertisement has become erroneous due to the passage of time between it''s original broadcast and whenever it is you are viewing it on RUclips.
RIP Michael Jayston
Bear in mind in 1977 the average weekly gross pay was £68. In 2015 it was £518 . These prices are probably more expensive in real terms; than prices today.
White goods; TV's etc where very expensive compared to what people earned; compared to today. Good post though; interesting video.
i haven't seen a bottle of quosh for god knows how many years
I have been wide awake this evening with far too little to do, and I have just multiplied these prices by £5.57, which the Bank of England says is the July 2023 equivalent to one 1977 pound. I then compared them with what Tesco is flogging today, and food prices have more or less doubled since 1977. Heinz beans being an obvious culprit, working out at the modern equivalent of 70p per single tin - £1.40 nowadays. But yes, you can still get Stork and it’s double the price for a similar quantity. Jacobs Crackers are sold in 300g now, as opposed to 200g, but they’re still £1.70 a pack, and 64p for 200g in 77. Add an extra 100g and it works out at about 95p. So we’re being fleeced. The food industry, with all its flying products half way round the world and back, underpaying farmers in third world countries etc… are ruining the planet, and they are the only ones who stand to benefit. Tesco shareholder dividends tripled in the tax year 21-22, Sainsbury’s doubled in the same period. They can afford to do more to ease the burden than they’re doing.
The UK economy probably would have improved more if they used an accounting only units, such as a Mil (aka a tenth Cent) or even a hundrenth of a Cent. It allowed Customers to have a simpler currency, but still allow merchants to have a much more flexible pricing system.
Like for example, the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR). The lowest Coin Denomination is 100 Rupiah. But they still used 1~99 Rupiah in pricing. The amount paid is rounded to the nearest hundred, unless you pay using electronic transfer.
Heck, the UK economy would improved a lot if they used the Rupiah instead of the Pound Sterling.
can't argue with those prices!!!!! hope there's a branch opening near me....
Multiply the prices you see here by 8.41 to get the equivalent in 2023 money.
@ketrinweb there is
some crazy prices here lol
Ski Yogs, Use to love them single poys something you dnt get these days nor in that shape. Prices looked cheap then but then in the 70's/80' food was still looked at as being expensive. Hence why you had Kwik Save, Victor Value, Lo-Cost Foodstores and Presto as discount foodstores,, Lidl, Netto and Aldi weren't even heard of in the UK.
wish the prices were still the same!!
26 1/2p for Stork margarine too!! Why haven't I been shopping there more often!!!
Must have been a pain in the arse for Tesco checkout staff adding up all those 1/2p's in those days.
Comparatively speaking, the items such as those advertised in this ad are cheaper now.
Good quality electrical goods are much cheaper now than they were in 1977.
On the other hand, the price of petrol is comparatively much higher, and, of course, it's much, much harder to get a foot on the property ladder.
...and a half p...
"and a Half P", because the Half Penny coin that worth Half Pence / Half P / ½p was still in circulation, and remained in use until 1984. That way the United Kingdom still have the ability to the divide the Pound Sterling into 200 pieces, like the old 240 pieces in the old £sd system (or 480 pieces using Half Penny, or 960 pieces using Farthing).
Unlike today where they're limited to only 100 pieces.
It seems like everything cost something and a half pence in those days.
I remember pre-digital tills as well.
why's everything got 1/2p on the end lol, ploy me thinks
Totally agree as we won't have choice once its too late.
@steph2k1uk simple inflation. £1 bought more back in the 1970s than it does now. Whilst 20p is still 20p it's buying power has been reduced.
Don't forget that the imperial measurements skew things slightly. The 15 & 3/4 ounce Heinz bean can is bigger than the cans we have today, whereas the "half pound of Tesco butter" is smaller, at only 227g as opposed to the 250g packs we tend to see today.
All those 1/2p prices were really annoying. Round them up or down!