As a child of the 1980s, my Mum and Dad couldn't afford brand names: Our whole family were raised on the 'yellow pack' line from Stewarts. Everything from toothpaste to coffee to chocolate frozen mousses. The BEST, beating Mcvities, was the Digestive biscuits...They were DELICIOUS! THANK YOU FOR THE HAPPY MEMORIES, from 2023! 😊😊😊😊
I used to work in Crazy Prices. When their main lad (Jim) was caught having an affair I came up with the phrase "Marry one get one free". It was in Portadown I think
I was told the reason why Crazy Prices was a supermarket most British people never heard of, was down to the fact that the major UK supermarket chains never bothered to come to Northern Ireland until after the 1994 ceasefires. Sainsbury in 1995, Tesco in 1996. Asda didn't arrive until 2005.
If i remember correctly, i think Stewarts and Crazy Prices pretty much had a monopoly on supermarket shopping since they were owned by the same company. Sainsburys and Tescos didn't come to Northern Ireland till 95 or 96. I cant remember any other supermarket brands before then. Edit: Sorry, I do remember Wellworths too. Had one at the bottom of our street on the Shore Road.
My Dad met Jim Megaw a few weeks ago out for a walk in Helen's Bay. Didn't ask for his autograph though 😂 Jim really was a bit of a celeb back in the 80s 😂
The tune is more impressive than the words... Tune memorable, words not really, they kept the PA systems in Crazy Prices stores 🏬 going with the tune with offer updates. There wasn’t much difference between a more budget looking Crazy Prices and an more upmarket Stewart’s/Quinnsworth. Although my local Quinnsworth has a posh Fish Tank at the fish counter and meat seemed more upmarket, Crazy Prices seemed more rough re presentation, to give a budget look. When Tesco’ed well that went, and the counter service too withered away over time, towards very basic Tesco style. In late 90’s after the Tesco takeover, re voucher deals, a computer for schools was around 18,000 tokens (£10 spend per token, although it was common that a extra one or would be thrown in by till operator), but that was a fair bit of spend. Never forget the day had to count a school worth of them and put them into bundles, too bad the computer didn’t have massive longevity as the technology was moving on so quickly. Almost every customer must have got a pot, plate or something else from those voucher gimmicks. Some of the deals were of decent quality for the time. There wasn’t as much choice or competition.
The anti-terrorism advert involving the two women is so 1980's, from the music down to the baseball jacket the guy is wearing (clearly thinking he's Eddie Murphy).
Grew up in NI in the 80s & 90s. Left in 2000 for 'the mainland'. These adverts bring back some memories! Seem to recall some of them getting shown after the Pearl & Dean jingle in the cinema.
geediaitch I remember it at the time and thinking even then “wow!” There was a second ad that I remember had to be pulled! As for the antiterrorist videos, even when I watch them now 20-30 years after, still affect me deeply. I live in France now and have shown them to my French family and they’re shocked at them. But I really enjoyed seeing Big Jim and I remembered all the words to the jingles. Power of advertising, eh?!!! I shared the video on Facebook Norn Iron Sayings and Memories. I hope you get loads of views 👍👍👍
@@bugler75 ha didn't see your follow-up comment - glad it's brought back some memories even if not all of them were positive. Well done for escaping. I only moved to England. France or Canada one day =)
geediaitch I do miss home but it’s nice not to worry about people’s politics ! I experienced Canada, it is a wonderful country and if you’re coming to France then anywhere but Paris! Lol. The North East on the border with Germany, fantastic, easy way of life etc. All the best 😊👍
Almost as many people died of covid in two years as thirty years of the troubles, other than those engaged in sectarian murders the rest of us got on with life and we had a good life most of us , good public services, free education, jobs for those who wanted to work, and zero crime.
14:26 Catholic Republican Brian murders a Protestant at the side of a pond. 16:39 Catholic Republican Brian is gunned down in a loyalist attack. Two different ads. But the same actor. You're welcome.
As a child of the 1980s, my Mum and Dad couldn't afford brand names: Our whole family were raised on the 'yellow pack' line from Stewarts. Everything from toothpaste to coffee to chocolate frozen mousses. The BEST, beating Mcvities, was the Digestive biscuits...They were DELICIOUS! THANK YOU FOR THE HAPPY MEMORIES, from 2023! 😊😊😊😊
I used to work in Crazy Prices. When their main lad (Jim) was caught having an affair I came up with the phrase "Marry one get one free". It was in Portadown I think
I was told the reason why Crazy Prices was a supermarket most British people never heard of, was down to the fact that the major UK supermarket chains never bothered to come to Northern Ireland until after the 1994 ceasefires. Sainsbury in 1995, Tesco in 1996. Asda didn't arrive until 2005.
Asda did come in 2005, but there were still a few that remained Safeway until 2008!
First job was a Stewarts supermarkets checkout operator and shelf stacker...loved those beaut orange and white checked A line uniforms🤣
Good laugh! And in the Republic, Maurice Pratt, a carbon copy of Jim Megaw, was the face of Quinnsworth/Crazy Prices here, yellow packs and all!!!
Open late in all stores (expect Ballymena) 🤣🤣
The one in Ballymena is attached to a mall (Tower Centre) and they don't open late on Tuesdays hehe! 😆
Quality!!
Big shappin centre in bellymena hi
Set your watch back to 1959 when driving into Ballymena!
@@kgarrett1404 best thing about ballymena is the bypass
Brings back memories, feels like it was only yesterday!
Wow, those confidential telephone line ads were powerful. Hope we never go back there.
All of it created by imperialism and colonial occupation.
99p for a fruit loaf? That’s a bargain!
I left NI aged 14 in 2000 but this brings back memories!
The last advert is probably the one we all remember the most.
I was born in 84 and it stuck with me my entire life.
If i remember correctly, i think Stewarts and Crazy Prices pretty much had a monopoly on supermarket shopping since they were owned by the same company. Sainsburys and Tescos didn't come to Northern Ireland till 95 or 96.
I cant remember any other supermarket brands before then.
Edit: Sorry, I do remember Wellworths too. Had one at the bottom of our street on the Shore Road.
My Dad met Jim Megaw a few weeks ago out for a walk in Helen's Bay. Didn't ask for his autograph though 😂 Jim really was a bit of a celeb back in the 80s 😂
I used to play on that beach as a kid. I remember that bridge being built
I've been looking for crazy prices adverts for ages. Need a primark. To prove How's its pronounced.
Pre-mark. 😄
Yessssss
That's why I'm here lol My stupid English relatives can't be told. Have only found Penny's ads so far.
14:37 STOP! STOOP! He’s already dead!
That's great, that's ace, that sets the pace.
The tune is more impressive than the words... Tune memorable, words not really, they kept the PA systems in Crazy Prices stores 🏬 going with the tune with offer updates.
There wasn’t much difference between a more budget looking Crazy Prices and an more upmarket Stewart’s/Quinnsworth.
Although my local Quinnsworth has a posh Fish Tank at the fish counter and meat seemed more upmarket, Crazy Prices seemed more rough re presentation, to give a budget look.
When Tesco’ed well that went, and the counter service too withered away over time, towards very basic Tesco style.
In late 90’s after the Tesco takeover, re
voucher deals, a computer for schools was around 18,000 tokens (£10 spend per token, although it was common that a extra one or would be thrown in by till operator), but that was a fair bit of spend. Never forget the day had to count a school worth of them and put them into bundles, too bad the computer didn’t have massive longevity as the technology was moving on so quickly.
Almost every customer must have got a pot, plate or something else from those voucher gimmicks. Some of the deals were of decent quality for the time. There wasn’t as much choice or competition.
Big Jim's ego must've been some size 🤣
The last 3 ads are from the 90’s not the 80’s
Do you have any more of the Crazy Prices adverts? My mum won a car and was in one of them once.
Old lorries ford d series and the ERF one of my favourite trucks and Bedford TL old friends
Dad had a D series with a Perkins in it. Could hear him coming up the road at night
Some of the food prices are the same, strange that
Two women won a MK3 Ford Fiesta and the other one won £5K, wow! 😃
Worked on about 60% of these
Excellent !!!! Thank you so much for uploading this.
Omg "fred where's the bread"?
these adverts highlight how buck mad our province was, i wana say i miss the 80s and early 90s but...
The anti-terrorism advert involving the two women is so 1980's, from the music down to the baseball jacket the guy is wearing (clearly thinking he's Eddie Murphy).
There should have been more balance though with some anti Gerrymandering, imperialism and anti colonial ads.
Big Jim must have had a thing for Kylie
And Mud lol
Sally serving a customer remember her from Stewartstown in Connswater, she came from Cherry valley.
Sally was still in Tesco at Connswater until it closed a couple of years ago. A lovely lady with a smile and chat for everyone.
That BCR advert was actually quite irritating.
Also that Punjana advert was quite cringy.
Did they have a lot of English accents on those ads to keep unionists happy?
Still notice Translink do that.
Probably not for much longer thankfully.
Bloomfield looks way too different in 1980😳😲
Grew up in NI in the 80s & 90s. Left in 2000 for 'the mainland'. These adverts bring back some memories! Seem to recall some of them getting shown after the Pearl & Dean jingle in the cinema.
Mainland 😂
You don't see many of these guys on the road that wasn't yesterday or today before or Day
Who’s here after hearing Jim on The Connor Phillips Show on BBC Radio Ulster? 😄
What a stud
We go Broomfeed now?!
Not only does it not age well, this was pretty borderline even at the time
geediaitch I remember it at the time and thinking even then “wow!” There was a second ad that I remember had to be pulled!
As for the antiterrorist videos, even when I watch them now 20-30 years after, still affect me deeply. I live in France now and have shown them to my French family and they’re shocked at them.
But I really enjoyed seeing Big Jim and I remembered all the words to the jingles. Power of advertising, eh?!!!
I shared the video on Facebook Norn Iron Sayings and Memories. I hope you get loads of views 👍👍👍
@@bugler75 ha didn't see your follow-up comment - glad it's brought back some memories even if not all of them were positive. Well done for escaping. I only moved to England. France or Canada one day =)
geediaitch I do miss home but it’s nice not to worry about people’s politics !
I experienced Canada, it is a wonderful country and if you’re coming to France then anywhere but Paris! Lol. The North East on the border with Germany, fantastic, easy way of life etc. All the best 😊👍
So racist lol
We’re these not 90’s adverts?
These are so fuckin different compared to the ones nowadays- like with Spar ads it’s always the same woman speaking enthusiastically
Happier times
Yeah bombs going off left right and centre.
did you watch it all the way through!?
Almost as many people died of covid in two years as thirty years of the troubles, other than those engaged in sectarian murders the rest of us got on with life and we had a good life most of us , good public services, free education, jobs for those who wanted to work, and zero crime.
@@davidcampbell4647 "zero crime" lol. Rose tint much
@@rob-890 You obviously weren’t around.
The Days Like This ad was late 90s not 80s.
Why fruit loaf when you've got Veda?! lol
Bloody hell, m'da just popped up in the ad for Bloomfield shopping centre. RIP Sammy Mackie. He's the one that's not Asian btw.😂😂
10:19 Belfast City Hall Tramsmitting in the late 1990s
11:05
14:26 Catholic Republican Brian murders a Protestant at the side of a pond. 16:39 Catholic Republican Brian is gunned down in a loyalist attack. Two different ads. But the same actor. You're welcome.
Yellow pack crisps were good
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