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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2020
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A nostalgic look at British Supermarkets in 1980
Tesco
Sainbury
Asda
VG
Safeway
Co op
International
First shown:1980
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I remember having sound in the 1980s.
Believe me you imagined it noise did not comes out until the 90s. Andy England 🇬🇧👍
camera operator was hearing impaired
These are what you would use when getting clips for news and documentaries. You take down the time code and give it to the archive and they would give you the footage with audio.
@@mseven1361 And most likely that audio would be audio from their library synced to the picture. All of the footage on the original Out Of Town series was shot mute for example and then dubbed from stock material back in Southampton. Which occasionally mean oddities like horses making clip clop noises across grass!
@@andrewdaley3081 yep, 1994 to be precise.
I like the grey and drizzly days in Britain, we still get them now but not so much, it just makes all the good things about the day stand out so much more like a warm house, a cooked meal or a comfy chair.
I love this little bit of time travel :)
Anybody else notice the pound notes at 04:12? The was the pre- pound coin days...we still use paper one dollar bills in the US. There are dollar coins, and they are legal tender, but nobody uses them.
@@RoadCone411 the pound notes went out of legal tender in 1984
@@WhitneyHouston4eva1 I know...I think pound coins were around a year or two before that.
@@RoadCone411 pounds coins came out in 1983
Reminds me of shopping with my Mum - I'd go back in a heartbeat
So would i
Me too
I miss the dreary, rain-soaked England of the 80’s.
Terry Winter pre-internet
Yes planet is fucked when I came here in mid 90’s was gloom and cold ... now it’s getting hotter and hotter
You know rome gets more rain than london? It's all perception.
Was even drearier in the nasty 70s. Just look at episodes of The Sweeney.
Hitogokochi ah just my memories. The eighties were very grey. But in a good way. I don’t live there anymore.
Wow! You can literally hear the nostalgia so loud that you don’t even need to have the volume turned up!
The reason for all the tinned produce back then is down to the fact we ate seasonally.
No 24/7/365 imports of non seasonal tasteless imports and force grown fruit and veg.
Freezers were still a luxury item as they were expensive. Majority of people just had a small ice box in the fridge.
As for sugar, We weren't forced into eating all the chemical alternatives as we are now. My Grandad was diabetic and most of his artificially sweetened products came from the chemist as they were not for general consumption of anyone other than diabetics. Sugar is far safer than all those toxic sweeteners.
We rarely ate out back then and convenience food was limited. Even when Microwaves became more common in the 80s you still used the cook book and the various corning ware to make meals rather than a pre packaged ready meal.
"Sugar is far safer than all those toxic sweeteners." that's not backed by the scientific evidence.
@@robokill387 um, it is
Rumbelows, ELS (gives a bigger choice yes), MFI, Texas Homecare, Do it All DIY (How do it all do it, if only we knew it), C&A, Lewiss', Dixons, Littlewoods, Burtons (you get bags more buzz at Burtons), Radio Rentals, Woolworths, Our Price, BonusPrint, Max Spielman, Athena, Dillons, John Menzies, Beatties Model and Hobby Shop, Safeways, Kwiksave and Greenshield stamps some random 80s retail memories, I thought I'd share.
Are you cheating or do you remember all of those from the 1980s?
I miss the 1980’s. Massively. Hate the world of today and how tech runs our life’s. Bring back the simplicity!!!!
I worked for Tesco from 1981 to 1987 and I was one of those that wore that red jacket as a supervisor. And as for those tills, one thing they had going for them was, if there was a power cut we could just put a handle in the side to work them and just continue on. Now days the shop would have to close. Oh such fun.
Remember the cars starting handle why do they get rid off good ideas
I sort of love that the Spar shop fronts have barely changed in all those years.
An absolutely fascinating film about how supermarkets were in those days.
Shame about the lack of sound, but I'd rather watch it silently than not at all.
Love seeing the old cars, that were not old at the time.
Yes cars were much better back then. They all had their individual characteristics. Modern cars all look the same.
Mind you that Austin Cambridge would have been old even at the time. They stopped making them around 1970.
@@charliepeebles2531 But did they rot.
@the man with the green cortina Yes me too. My daily driver is a 1995 Jaguar. Huge respect to you if you're driving a Cortina.
Duh!
A very nostalgic video indeed! 1980 was the year I started school & in my local town in Suffolk I can remember an International supermarket along with 2 other supermarkets namely Key Markets which then was renamed Gateway & Shoppers Paradise!
I can remember helping my Mum with the weekly shopping on Friday evenings after tea when the supermarkets generally opened fairly late back then & on Saturdays as well because on Sundays they were all closed! The food looked better quality back then & I can remember the half pennies as well! Good old days when there were no mobile phones, on-line shopping or internet & life was less hectic & more simpler back then unlike today!!
@Andrew Wilson I did get an occasional treat for being good & helping out with the shopping like a Marathon or Mars bar or a glass of Ice Cream Soda (remember that?) & yes I do remember the wine bottles in the cardboard boxes! I had plenty of toys at home back then. There wasn't much in the way of ready meals back then either in the supermarkets so you still had to get out the recipe book & cook up! Yes those were the days indeed back in the 1980's!
I'm just here for vintage cars.
Well at least the arrows on the shopfloor are back.
Haha!!!
Lol
I would gladly go back to this time..
Back in the days where every checkout was open! Fat forward to Tesco's in 2021. 30 plus checkouts and only two open. Plus service without the smile! Every little helps? I think not.
Asda didn't look any different from the outside. Noticed the shelves and aisle ends were packed with tinned essentials, no quinoa, plant milk or peri-peri glazed meat to be found for miles.
There's a reason we mostly stay away from tins these days - it's usually shite versions of fresh food devoid of any goodness. This was a low point for food in the uk
How did it not look any different? It lacked the giant green logo for a start!
Food tastes a lot better now, but is fat and sugar laden
@Jack Warner just full of knuckle dragging pieces of shit with fragile masculinity like you
@@forza223bowe5
Brings back memories. Who remembers quick save and presto supermarkets.
Had a Presto supermarket near me. I mourn it's passing.
I remember Kwik Save
Yes we had both
I think this might be my favourite UA-cam channel . Nostalgia overload! The Spar looked like it does today
Wow! And a bus right to the store an all. Brilliant. Was born five years later
Me too ✋️
1.33 I see van driving hasn’t changed, in 40 years!
Lol Polo nearly got rear ended lol.
Edgar Beat 🤣
@@richardbaker1782 see him stamp on the acellerator after lifting off.
Edgar Beat Bit late now, but I hope someone got his number! Lol!
lol glad it's not just me Richard !
Thank you for sharing this amazing video, and for the other videos on this channel.
I’m looking at my local Spar right now, looks exactly the same.
I love Spars!
And the prices the same, too.
But nowadays I bet its full of fat ugly people.
Spar and VG were both often in trouble of sell by dates when they came into force where you were advised if them sausages taste sweet or green under the skin, prob not a good idea on eating 'em. Lidl's even today has issues with bread, it used to be the case of buying a loaf and by time you got home it was blooming mould, I never buy bread from Lidl's now which seems to have improved getting a days worth in the cupboard before finding the mouldy bits starting :(
I like Spars as well but it is literally only 'convenience' (hence the title of shops like that) food like bread, pint of milk, etc. and not much of other things, also very expensive and the main disadvantage for me - so small you can't move in there!! If you turn round with a shopping basket, you knock a load of tins (or something else) over!! 😂
Anyone remember Gordon Jackson doing the Fine Fare ads?
CRS1964 Brilliant, what a memory. Forgot that 👌
CRS1964 That’s so funny. Good old Gordon summed up a safer world back in the day. Then he had Bodie and Doyle to sort out.
Is that when he sped away in a Rolls Royce at the end? Or am I thinking of something else...
CRS1964 Yes, I didn’t really follow that programme, I was a bit too young but he seemed quite versatile an actor and from what others said who knew him, he was a pretty decent chap. It’s great seeing these actors in old b&w films when they were young.I suppose they got the part if John Mills or Trevor Howard was unavailable.😁
No
My fist Job in 1977 was in a small supermarket called International, this is a blast from the past.🛒👏
Teresa Harrison Fist job in a supermarket? You’re brave.
@Aspie Mt69
In 1978 international took over Wallis and my weekly wage went from £21.00 to £39.00 per week.
Prices aren't much lower than today, relatively. Food is cheap in the UK, even if nothing else is!
Yes your right. Andy England 🇬🇧👍
1980: Beans 13p!
40 years later: Beans 25p!
So, in 2060 Beans will be around 50p? And I'm talking value beans!
Prices of a lot of stuff back then in real terms were actually quite a lot higher than they are now. I remember seeing an advert for quality street for Woolworths in 1981. The price of them in today's prices would have been the equivalent of £27 ! - things like TVs and video recorders would be the equivalent of well over £1,000 in today's prices.
@@th8257 I think we have quite low food prices in the UK. I've been a long term visitor to the USA for a some time and recently I have noticed that their food is so expensive, like £7 for a basic load of bread - OK so you can get a whole watermelon for a couple of dollars but an apple is $1.50 for something decent.
When England 🏴 was English . Not one illegal immigrant . You could leave your cars unlocked and your keys in the ignition and your wallet on your seat
Baron Will you was not even in the U.K. back then you illegal immigrant
The good old days, before the country was full of old people taking up the housing stock and costing the NHS billions.
Ed Robbins yes before the illegal immigrants and Muslims came over
Baron Will that’s why your a crack head TURD skinner
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
Have you been drinking?
oof, right in the nostalgia
Are you a poet?
A shopshire lad
You're a poet and you know it.
That's the Portsmouth Tesco. What fun times I had being dragged around that as a kid.
Did you do any nicking? Me and my brother used to go nicking batteries upstairs in Fine Fare! 👍😂
@@marcse7en Of course!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Thank you very much for the upload.
The 1980s were a very colourful era, notably the shoes, sandals and boots.
That Tesco is Commercial Road, Portsmouth. Thats crazy how, apart from the logo, it hasn't changed a bit.
Yeah dude I noticed that! Good old commercial Rd
We didn't have Tesco in Scotland in the 1980s; it was seen as an exotic English thing when they took over William Low in the early 1990s. Anyone else remember Willie Low's?
@M J Well, maybe Dundee then, but not Edinburgh.
Yes, on holiday. I remember we had a carrier bag at home for a while afterwards...reused as the wet swimming kit bag!
Until the 1994 takeover of Wm Low, Tesco only had ten shops in Scotland.
Hard to believe!
Tesco - exotic!!
We didn't have a Tesco near our house in Bournemouth until the early 1990s so we went to Sainsbury's (brown & orange decor).
We had Tesco in Perth in early 70s. It’s still there on South St.
Look how clean everywhere is.
Awwwww a bit nostalgia with supermarket's of the 80s 😊😊
This is mostly filmed in Portsmouth. Brings back some memories.
I thought it was craswell street also ?
Then saw the J Sainsbury’s in Edinburgh road 😊
Instantly recognised it at 0:39
International stores, I lived next to the one in Temple Fortune, Ashbourne parade, London. That's one of my best memories of the 1970's along with proper seasons !
01:32 That VW Polo was basically a new car in 1980 (V-reg went from Aug 1979-July 1980). Not that anybody cares, but my dad and I drove off from a VW dealer on August 1, 1980 with a brand new W-reg Golf...loved that car! Got a lot of looks that first day being among the first W-regs on the road!
Also, at 01:44, is that a Mazda 1000? Nice - a rare car then, very very rare now!
I know this video is about supermarkets, but so many wonderful cars from my early years. Ah, nostalgia!
There's also a car which seems to look like an Austin Cambridge Farina or a Morris Oxford Farina! I can't deny cars from back then were certainly more stylish!
W-reg was the first registrations that I became properly aware of them being a brand new car. I had just turned 9-yrs-old a week before.
Nice spot on the mazda. One of the joys of these vids is seeing the old cars.
Yup you to look out for the old cars, yes they were stylish, chrome on bumpers, round the doors etc.
I was also one eye on the cars while watching.
But I do with many of the old programmes eg Sweeney, Minder, the early few episodes of Only Fools, and if you watch a film from those years again yes the cars are a side attraction.
Also in the Sweeney it's also good to catch how much of derelict London you saw.
639704234200009 I agree, more styling and better detailing than today’s robots.
It's strange, I find it so fascinating now, with outdated tills, no scanning barcodes, the funny hairstyles and clothes, not a cellphone in sight, he classic cars in the parking lot....yet when I was there at the time, early 80s perhaps, it just seemed boring everyday normality.
How much I'd love to return to the era of 40 odd years ago but with the hindsight of myself now in the 21st century.
When did barcodes come in then? ....was it in the late 80's?
I remember 'International' supermarkets! ... they weren't that bad actually - we shopped at one....before Waitrose moved in to the area (yea, it was quite a 'nice' area!). International must have gone bust a few years after this.
@@robtyman4281 barcodes came in during the 80s if not earlier. Perhaps USA had the technology to read them before we did. I don't know but I remember them being on groceries for years and apparently without any purpose whatsoever. I think the stocktaking PDA devices could read them.
Of course, barcodes reading tills, well that's a different matter, very expensive equipment. I don't recall barcode tills before the 1990s.
Remember walking out with shed loads of Greenshild Stamps? Must have been the first kind of loyalty promotion. Life was so much simpler back then, although living through the Cold War in the 80s wasn't that nice as a kid.
Alan Torr I was a child in the 80s and don’t seem to recall the Cold War having a direct affect on me. What experiences did you have?
Michael Parkes
I think it was the constant threat of imminent war that ground people down.
David Lowe I’m sure that was the case, but my point being, that as a child, you had no real perception of this. I certainly didn’t. I was too interested in Knightrider and the A-team and spending all day outside on my BMX.
@@mikep2099 don't forget he-man, transformers and thundercats.
@@mikep2099 Good memories!
The International is Brockhurst, in Gosport Hampshire and is now a 'Range'. I used to go in there to do the weekly shop with my parents. What a flashback!!! it then became Mainstop, then Gosport Superstore, which i worked in the bakery section (Don Millers / Rising Dough), Buy-Lo! and finally as it still is now The Range. Thanks for posting and transporting me back to my childhood.
Great video, hope to find a copy with the audio. I worked at Tescos in Brighton on the tills from 1980 to 1985. It was my first job. Wore a thin blue jacket. The women wore pink and the supervisors were in red. People went there because the food was cheap, not for good service. You went to M&S for that and paid their prices. Did you know that M&S would not employ you if you had worked at Woolworths or Tescos? It was a dreadful place to work. First dinner was at 11:30 but the canteen didn't do meals until 12:00 and they were usually running 20 minutes late so you had no chance to eat your lunch. There was no CCTV and security was two old men. They were meant to be walking around both floors but spent the day chatting in the corner by the side door. Used to see lots of people stealing stuff but by the time security were called and arrived, the thief had gone.
Loved the old mechanical tills, I was so fast I broke them once or twice! Then they got new tiils with a calculator layout and about 10 department buttons to remember instead of four, and they beeped every time you pressed a button which I hated, so I flitted around various other departments for a year and then left when there were rumours of Churchill Square being demolished, which did happen, albeit about 12 years later. They closed the shop a year before that happened though and the space in the new shopping centre was occupied by Debenhams.
Where we lived in Bromley, the local supermarket was this immense Waitrose, abs supersize for the era and for a suburb shop too. Nothing grocery could survive in the locality because of its comprehensive range and it was a def step up from the rather putrid International in Grove Park and easier to use than say Caters or Presto in Bromley town centre which also had a early Tescos at the bottom of the high st. That Waitrose was the favourite of David Bowie's mum and nan too.
Beans 13p??? They're cheaper now!
I don't know where you shop, but beans are actually NOT cheaper now! Sainsbury's value beans 25p. You won't find them much cheaper than that!
@@marcse7en 13p in 1980 equates to 56p today.
'At International there's a world of better shopping'. I never forget a tv ad 😅
Look at all those checkout operators.
Aaaah the days before obsession with interspecies erotica
ha?
I remember in the 80s at Kwiksave, if you got their just before closing and took your time filling a trolley to the brim then they’d either estimate the value or just wave you through without having to pay 😂.
Fascinating! I was 5. It all seems oddly familiar yet I don't remember it...
1.31 that van racing up behind the car! Thought it was going to hit them for a second! Christ! 😅
Yeah! Maybe we drive safer now lol
Wow, look at the stock! On a different scale and quality these days.
Nowadays it's all overpriced sugary crap. Wish we could go back..
There's much less sugar these days!
As for being overpriced, you can thank the voters for that. The government ultimately has only two sources of money: taxation and inflation. People don't produce enough to be taxed enough to finance all the goodies that the voters want. So, the government has to inflate away the value of the pound.
@@YorickReturns totally wrong. Why do you think the majority of the UK are obese?
@@DashDrones The majority isn't obese. You're thinking of the proportion that is obese or overweight. And sugar consumption (and salt, saturated fat, fat and calorie consumption) have decreased over the decades. The major cause of obesity and overweight in the UK now is lack of exercise.
The stock? All they showed was tinned crap like beans?
Go back? Food was shocking in the 80s. E-numbers and additives, msg, hardly anything spicy, garlic was a dirty word.
1:38 Good to know people couldn't park properly back then as well. That read car. Although, I guess could let it off as the brown car probably parked poorly.
Cool cars.
Those were such carefree days in spite of the fact nobody looked happy or smiled in the video. They all look like they're terribly constipated.
😂😂👍
It's crazy to see an ethnically British Britian
Tesco in Craswell Street Portsmouth hasn't changed at all, also noticed the old Sainsbury's where Iceland is now. The VG store is what used to Kwik Save in North End. The Fine Fare is Charlotte Street all in Portsmouth. So I guess this was a Southern TV production.
We had a VG supermarket in the village as I was growing up!
I remember VG, they were in our little village too. And a Mace, which are still around in some places.
I seem to remember those Asda stores being dark and grim inside in the 80s, or at least the one we frequented was. A lot brighter today, fortunately.
I wonder if half the stores still exist today, shame there's no sound.
Was that soup on the end of the aisle and some cans of spray cream sold with it?
I remember when people added cream to tomato soup
Thank You, Great Video
awesome. thanks
I shop at Asda (purely out of convenience) I remember International stores my gran used Coop and we had a VG store at the end of our road with a post office
Why is there no sound on this one? It would have been a million times better.
We al need to hear how much a tin of beans was
😂😂😂😂👍🏻👊🏻
the international store at 1.41 is that now the range in gosport ?
Ah you too? I thought that. I'm sure it is!
It would be better if there was sound but you can't have everything 🤷♀️
This is Portsmouth. I was a teenage sailor there in 1980. I remember Sainsbury was opposite the Shipwrights Arms, Ruby’s and The Park Tavern pubs. Never had much need to enter supermarkets in these days though.
3.22 Does anyone remember the Numbers above the Deli Counter
Beautiful and romantic feeling in those time...all over world
Did Tesco stock fresh food back in those days. Didn't shop in Tesco until the early 90s as there wasn't one in my area and by then it seems to have been totally transformed upmarket.
yes they did as well as some stores having their own bakeries producing bread etc. daily
Where did you live?
Who would have ever known this would be shown later to compare then and now. I shopped in them back then. Didnt know it would be thought of as vintage now.
Anyone remember Leo's (a discount supermarket) and Liptons?
1:36 How to get into the Cortina?
Watching this in Lock down here in the UK. 2020!
Stay safe everyone
Billy Babu The Story teller me too
Its all at the Co op now
Not any more it's not!
Why does everything look so much better in those days? If the UK can go so downhill in just 40 years, imagine what it's going to be like in another 100 years. It doesn't bear thinking about and I'm glad I won't be here to witness it!
....everything....except the weather. Why are there so many videos from the 80's with crap weather!
Everything in the video looked rubbish, and you know it. Ugly cars, ugly uniforms, ugly shelves, ugly logos ...
@@ERobbins1234 I'm guessing you're a snowflake zoomer!
@@davidholgate123 I'm guessing you're an ageing snowflake who finds the modern world a scary place.
@@ERobbins1234 clearly he does. Thankfully most of us have grown up since the 70's/80's. David is still stuck there lol
Looks like Gosport Asda and International at Fort Brockhurst (which later became Mainstop) Blimey that takes me back!
Managed to work for many companies without moving shop! Macmarket,international,gateway,safeways and morrisons lol
Wowzers!!!👍
Looks so dreamy
Funny when this was shown, here in the US 🇺🇸 we were using scanners at supermarkets. I do remember when working at K-Mart, they did not install scanner registers until 1990!!
This was right before the barcode revolution. Most supermarkets converted in the early 80s. Though as you say, not all of them!
I understand Barcodes were introduced in 1974, and the first product to use them was chewing gum! QR Codes are a matrix barcode, introduced in 1994 for the automotive industry. Before barcodes and itemised receipts, there must have been a LOT of mistakes on the checkout, usually in favour of the supermarkets!
The Tesco in this video is in Portsmouth and is still there
Yep Crasswell Street- looks filthy now.
@@matthewhendy5785 Looked pretty filthy then ;D
Imagine what life would be without Aldi or Lidl. There was a store called Caters.
Would it have killed them to record some audio?
Takes me back to being a toddler
ok saville...
Yes I was born in 81 and remember this :)
3:15 the red walls and columns with white floors, reminds me of the overlook Hotel in the Shining.. Scary! 😱😱😱Lol
Was hoping to see Keymarkets
Or Mainstop!
Before the 90s companies didn't bother to print expiration dates on food products. You wouldn't know if something was stale until you opened it
Many people don't understand the different types of dates on food, and consequently a lot is wasted! 👎
You'll never see so many people ooerating the tills ever again. Better times
The first one looks like Tesco High Wycombe. It looks like an 80s time warp now or it certainly did 3 years ago!
It's similar to the Wycombe store. They still have those glass doors, but are hidden away now.
Surely the Eden project has changed everything in Wycombe town centre now?
@@ts6070 All except the 1980s time warp Tesco right in the middle of it.
Bob Mathews no have a look at this www.edenshopping.co.uk/
It's the Tesco in Portsmouth
1:00 Nice Hillman Avenger. I still drive one of those.
Christ id give me right arm to go back to the old days .
Great vid Thames TV👍👍👍👍👍👍
I remember international supermarket
The lack of sound is problem that it was for ‘stock’ footage and would be narrated over depending on the news story involved.
Does anyone remember the advertising slogans eg Nice People, Nice Prices, International and Stop Worrying Purse for Fine Fare with a Gordon Jackson? If you have any more please add them. What was Tesco’s slogan for this time period, obviously before Every Little Helps!!
Any stores missing from that period, wasn’t their Liptons and Wavy Line?
Key Markets, Presto, Caters, Budgen, Kwik-Save, Somerfield, WM Low (Scotland).
Nice people with nice prices and a later ad campaign with music hall type dancers singing ' at International we only cut the best'. Lipton's make your money go round.
You can tell by the cars, the clothing, and of course the prices that it's the 80's.
There was one big supermarket chain called Europa Foods. My local was in NottingHill. Bit more expensive than Tesco or Sainsburys but a bit better quality.
Here are some of the prices and what their equivalents are in real terms in 2024 prices, using the Retail Price Index (RPI) measurement of inflation. Roughly, multiply all the prices you see by 6.18 to get the equivalent 2024 prices:
Tesco cans on sale 24p = £1.48
Heinz soups 17.5p = £1.08
Beans 13p = 80p
Typhoo 20.5p = £1.27
Beefburgers 55p = £3.40