Gateway Superstores Advert (1987)

An advert to Gateway Superstores with music with it's slogan "Full of Fresh Ideas".
History: Gateway was a supermarket chain prevalent in the South West of England of the 1960's and 1970's. It later became Somerfield in 1994 as Somerfield/Gateway and then in 1996 the Gateway name had disappeared and became just "Somerfield", and then in 2010 Somerfield was bought out by the Co-Op. All Somerfield/Co-Op stores are now just standalone Co-Op stores.
BTW the only Somerfield/Co-Op store left in our area is at Adelaide Terrace, Newcastle, England!! (now closed and turned into an Asda store)

[@shaunemerton1822]

I had the record of this and I believe it got into the charts just in the top 40 happy times .

[@chrismcallister3355]

worked for gateway and had to sit and watch this before they released the ad.

[@nigelthomas9299]

I used to work in a gateways store in Epsom when I was 18, now it’s a cinema

[@julialan7494]

I worked for gateway from 1986-1988 for a mear £9.10 a week for 10hrs a week! Shocking money really and treated terribly by management as I was a student!

[@cliveevans9795]

The Guys nice

[@kholiwemorrison5878]

We used to drive 15 miles to our nearest Gateway in the late 1980's ... it must have been cheap, as we passed several other supermarkets on the way

[@Blubatt]

this is quite melancholy...I thought they wanted people to buy stuff

[@Calfaeairdrie]

What Store is this that is shown at the end of the clip?

[@warren12pete]

who was the singerin this ad?

[@plasticpaddymartin1]

Willy Finlayson is credited on the vinyl release that followed this advert being screened, I purchased the 7" record complete with a Gateway label on the picture sleeve

[@MsPaintMr]

Actually some of the Gateway/Somerfield stores turned into Morrisons. The one near me did, anyway.

[@michaelsimcock1984]

And the rest were cooperative society stores

[@gdjman68]

Yarp