Tesco Superstore | 1980s Supermarket | Supermarket | Tesco | TN-85-084-007
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- THAMES NEWS. 3.6.85. - NEASDEN 1985
Tesco opens its mega store in Neasden in 1985 at a cost of £20M. 65000 square feet of retail unit including bank, pharmacy and consumer advice centre. Shots include Sir Leslie Porter Chairman of Tesco.
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They've only recently done this store up from the 80's look of Tesco. The bold red and white. My Mum worked at Tesco Watford when it opened in 1988.
That is one big-ass Tesco store - it looked like a mix of Tesco, B&Q and HMV
I remember visiting this place for the first time in the summer of 85. I got off the bus and headed into the store and the air was filled with music; Live Aid was just getting started in Wembley stadium. I went on to work there for a couple of years as a student in the early-to-mid 90s.
Everything in there - even records and cassettes!! Would have loved to browse there, and browse all around that store as well, it’s got everything. Nostalgia from an eighties addict. 😊
Tesco Extra Wembley is the location of this store. Looks quite different on the outside now! Also contains a Nando's. I moved to the area not that long ago so I assume they only changed the exterior as the interior still kind of looks like this minus the red and white. Like it doesn't look to me like they just knocked it down and rebuilt it and can't find any mention of that being done. Don't think the bank is in there anymore either.
nope it hasn't been rebuilt.. just had a refit .. where the bank was is where the post office and customer service is these days.
Love your videos, Thames, they are absolutely fascinating!!
24 degrees at the begining of June - perfectly normal!
I swear every British voiceover in the 1980s was done by one man.
Interesting the commentary on housewives. Different times.
Hari M absolutely, it’s fascinating how much attitudes have changed in a relatively short space of time.
Yes I'm going to post this on my twitter, tesco must publicly apologise and fire their ceo #endsexism
The guy who said that looked really evil!
He would be cancelled by the leftie mob today.
@@barrymanihigh8560what a weird comment. The man who's talking, if he's still alive, will probably be in his 80s now. The world he's referring to no longer exists, so there's no need for anyone to cancel anything. Nobody would make a comment like him today, unless they were seriously trapped in the past, because the world of "housewives" he's referring to is long gone.
The peak of Tesco was shortly after the turn of the new millennium, up until around 2012. The introduction of Everyday Value bumped up the prices of baseline items significantly. Then, once they started to replace it with dubious fake farms and weak tertiary brands, the store lost out to Aldi and is now very much struggling to regain its crown.
They also used to have a much wider range of lines, but have very much cut back on them to try and focus on price. They're definitely not what they once were.
Yeah Tesco fell off considerably around 2012/13/14 for me
A good indication of how society has changed. They're still talking here about "housewives" doing the shopping, like men never shopped and the women who did didn't have jobs.
Society started to unravel when women were ushered into the workplace
Men shopping and women working there, though.
is this store still open? looks huuuuuuugeeee
It is indeed, Tesco Extra Wembley, just next to IKEA
@@hannahtaylor3841 Albeit now substantially renovated. The store lost its 80s architecture and slab serif logo sometime in the early 2010s, making it among the last Tesco stores left to be renovated.
I remember the food counters where you get customiised slices of cheese and meat were incredibly popular, so much so that you had to take a piece of paper with a number on it and had to wait for 20 people or more to go first. You can see the displays showing 00 which would slowly advance to your number. These days you go to a such a counter and get served straight away. I wonder why they are so unpopluar now.
My guess is that it's because a lot of the items they sold at those counters are now pre-packaged and you just pick them up off the shelf.
Though the problem the elimination of the counters has caused is that it you can no longer buy precise quantities, and unless you can find other uses for the surplus, it's more food and packaging waste. At least Waitrose and Morrisons have kept their counters.
it comes down to economics.. 1 person buying a slice of ham isn't gonna fund the staff needed to run it (that isn't cheap) . also online shoppers, folk don't buy counter stuff.
A year later they have now mostly been completely taken away by the supermarkets. It must also be quite an effort to keep all that loose food laid out and tidy and in a clean enviroment instead of just slinging packets on shelves.
You pay a hefty premium at the dele counter vs pre-packed these days. There is also shrinkflation. Pre-packed ham would come by Kilo so if you only wanted a small amount, the dele was the best choice and it didn't carry the price premium it does now.
Still shop there every week
back when tesco was a good place to shop not anymore
As an American that has never been there, what is wrong with it now?
@@chocolatechipslime it's just the usual old person whining about how the past was so much better, without any evidence.
this is just like the tescos in Chatham
I'm from Chatham and yes it reminded me of that!
0:55 Cringe. Glad we've gotten away from comments like that.
What’s ‘cringe’ about it? The narrator merely affirms the core demographic that then comprised Tescos’ (and every other supermarket chain) customer base. In truth, it’s probably not all that different now.
Jeez, people and their moronic virtue signalling. 😔
Such a sensitive woke. Get a grip on yourself.
@@makara80 it was a somewhat outdated term even then. It sounds very quaint and patronising to modern ears.
@@zeddeka On what do you base the assertion that it was an outdated term at the time? Actually you just made that up didn’t you. Nice try. 😉
Stop press, BREAKING: ‘People Outraged As 40 Year Old News Report Fails To Adhere To 21st Century Sensibility Standards!’ Get over yourself.
Use to Be a free 🚍 service ( think it was running till a couple of years ago ) .. My Mum and I went on it to there .. bread was different taste Then .. started eating it by the time We were on the Bus back . Branch was Brown frt at one time .. Had a Brochure type through the letter box as far down to W12 . and it didn't mordernized until a couple years ago ...
May well be that the bread is no different. People's taste buds actually change quite a bit as they get older. It's why we tend to dislike certain strong flavours when we're kids.
the store refits of any place are REALLY involved and expensive. you still have to keep the shop open and do building work around it. the front has changed to glass, the structure is still the exact same.
Tesco used to be nicer back in the late 80s and 90s. More upmarket and interesting products. Now it reminds me of Kwiksave.
I think the 2008 crash really changed them. They went from offering variety to trying to compete on price on a much smaller range.
Very red compared to modern Tesco blue.
This was aired on my 1st birthday I'm now 36 😱
Who cares? Why do you feel the need to tell us that?
Do you now have a Tesco club card? 🤔
@@zeddeka why reply? Why reply if you honestly didn't care?
@@jgill551 T H seems like a creepy weirdo going from its comments.
I guess it was quite modern for its time with the in-store bank and pharmacy. Still looks so naff though, doesn't it?!
Very 80s. Looking back, everyday stuff was pretty grey back then for the most part. Things like this were a novelty.
Gosh, they've really gone back to dumbing down. Piling high but this time not so cheap! I had the most depressing trip to Yiewsley last weekend. The travelators annoyed the hell out of me as those without trolleys didn't follow TFL standing on the right principles; as did the extra long queue for the self checkouts and the poor staff running around to correct issues and validate. No more deli counter, no more butchers' counter - absolutely no fish counter! What happened to those neon signs and terrazzo floors? Oh and obvious security measures such as barriers. The golden days of Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks are long gone.
I think the 2008 crash really changed them, and many other retailers. Tesco went from offering a huge variety to really reducing their range and trying to compete on price on a selected range.
Multiply the prices you see here by around 4 to get the equivalent in 2024 money.
Shoplifting would of been a doddle back in the day
I wonder why they said they were so keen to avoid multi-storey car parks
it's far easier to not deal with lifts etc when you have a load of shopping.. AND the extra building cost. the original store had far more parking. Ikea store sits on the original car parks
@@fogvarious2478just a few years after this, we had the explosion of mega malls like the metro centre in Gateshead, the Trafford centre in Manchester and the meadow hall in Sheffield. Built around multi storey car parks. I wonder if attitudes changed or whether they built them simply out of necessity
@@zeddeka yes but they are like Brent cross in London.. multiple shops..this isnt so many businesses inside..even now
Tesco were good then.
housewife sounds such an outed term now.
Easy to forget that this was around 40 years ago now. Literally last century.
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Not exactly an impulse purchase.
…He-Man & The Masters of the Universe figures @0:12 (as seen on the end of one of the aisles as the camera pans across)?
The footage is sadly too low res to be 100% certain but such toys are worth a small fortune today MOC!
The start of the end of the high street. Thanks Tesco.
As the man says in the video, people shopped at Tesco because they preferred it to the High Street. You can't force people to go where they don't want to. Also, I think the High Street's demise had deeper roots. In days past, one of the major reasons for going to a High Street was to pay bills. That disappeared when Direct Debits became popular. The world has changed bit by bit, and will continue to do so. There's nothing to say that Tesco will still be with us in 50 years' time either. You can't stop change.
@@zeddeka it's more that the convenience of literally everything under one roof particularly heavy dry goods, frozen food and fruit and veg made it all so much easier. Particularly for the increased numbers of women working full time, was obviously also much cheaper than the traditional
Gr.o.c.e.r and o.pe.n much later into the evening .
Housewifes choice. If only women had that luxury in 2024.
I see Tesco as expensive now. Aldi and Asda much better value
Though it's been proven cheaper isn't always better - a lot of Aldi products often contain much sugar and salt than the "big 4".
do like for like comparisions of things you buy.. I don't rate certain things from various supermarkets . eat well for less is an interesting thing regarding what you prefer IF you didn't know it's source.
i wouldnt mind the 80s prices as 2023 there greedy robbing gits
how so ? 1) fuel prices are VERY different 2) production costs, like energy are far higher .. much like I can't buy a 1970's house for £6k thats worth £1m ...
compare *ALL* the supermarkets .. then comment again
look at the profits there all making@@fogvarious2478
You can't judge prices like that because the value of money changes over time because of inflation. People got paid a hell of a lot less back then. Multiply the prices you see here by roughly 4 to get the equivalent in 2024 money. Not as cheap as it looks.
@@zeddeka look into all the energy and food shop profits