Supermarket Christmas Adverts

It doesn't bother me TBH. Whatever people decide to spend their money on is their choice and if that, and putting a tree up in November makes them happy then good for them.

As for Christmas ads sorry MissA but I love the 'Kevin the Carrot' adverts and look forward to them every year .

Beechnut

I received my first Christmas card today 🎄

And my second today.

I love Christmas, but we keep it short and sweet.

No decorations before 2nd weekend of December but they stay until 5th January. We avoid shops as it gets near Christmas apart from when necessary. No Christmas music until the decorations go up, though we do have a sing song sometimes when we're making puddings and cakes for Christmas 🫢 We send and receive cards but only send to people we actually want to hear from, not everyone we know.

I haven't heard a single advert for Christmas yet but that may be because we don't watch much TV? Where are people seeing them?

There were real (potted) 🎄trees in Asda yesterday.

I can’t say the ads bother me. I’m good at ignoring ads that are daft or irritating - which also includes all the ludicrous perfume ones in the run up to Christmas every year. Oh, and that kitchen one, featuring that woman with the dreadful shouty voice 😩

Does anyone remember the little family owned ironmongers in Wales who made a family video advert years ago?
It was really lovely 😍

Here it is
It was actually a hardware shop.

youtu.be/pDtCXO71FJU?si=nTFmE3zD2zFVNMgW

... they have others on YouTube - and also seem to have had a visit from King Charles.

NotSpaghetti

Here it is
It was actually a hardware shop.

youtu.be/pDtCXO71FJU?si=nTFmE3zD2zFVNMgW

How lovely - it actually made me a bit teary. The big stores could certainly take a leaf out of Hafod’s book!

Everyone to their own. I love Christmas and only 6 weeks to go. Think now is the perfect time for all things Christmas so bring it on.

I have never seen a TV advert yet which has inspired me to visit one of their stores.

It's more likely to make me stay away when I see an almost Hollywood production.

All that for some sprouts and a turkey.

None of the Xmas ads this year have been particularly inspiring to me. I loved last year's ad with the elderly ladies sledging down the hill in the snow, none of them seem to be as uplifting this year. They all seem to be about how much food you can cram onto a table and heaps of presents. I'm hoping John Lewis saves the day.
The real Christmas has been hijacked unfortunately, it's just an excuse to spend, party and in a lot of cases, get into debt

They're amusing the first time then become increasingly boring although if I were Dawn French I might be chuckling each time it appeared on my screen.

Christmas is a bah humbug for me, but the fact is that Christmas is now a huge commercial event. Shops and supermarkets are in fierce competition for custom and want to make sure that their advert is out there first. I've stopped being annoyed by it and now happily ignore it. But I'd settle for a bit of peace on earth...

I’m another one who thinks Christmas has become too commercialised. Too much build up and too much pressure to spend money that people often haven’t got. It’s a pity we aren’t like Spain and France where it’s still more about the true meaning of Christmas and spending time with family rather than the ‘pile it high’ in the shops like we have here.

Ditto

For me Christmas is celebrating the birth of Christ, so everything means something, the presents remembering God's gift to us, so hopefully done with love and care. Trying to spread a little of the peace and joy we genuinely feel. A Christmas that is just a massive alcohol and endless rich food fest seems pretty pointless if you cannot feel what you are actually celebrating. So I love Christmas, trying to make it as special as I can for friends and family. Each to their own of course, but I hope each and every one of you will feel a sense of peace however you spend it.

Christ (Jesus) wasn't even born in December. It was probably March. Christians borrowed the pagan Winter Festival and combined it with the supposed birth. So the REAL meaning is sort of a non- meaning anyway.

I think Boots may have shot themselves in the foot. That woman who said the balcony at the coronation was “too white” is the lead surrounded by drag queens and weird characters. Not much to do with Xmas at all, more like the Paris Olympics. Lots of people on X having a moan and saying they will use Superdrug instead. I agree it’s far too early for any of these ads. to show the tables actually groaning in enough food to feed an army when people are struggling with the cost of living is just adding to the stress in my opinion.

I’ve stopped watching normal tv so don’t see the adverts anymore

I think that decorating and putting up a tree too early, takes away some
of the enchantment for the 'little ones' - after all I feel they are the ones who make it magical for everyone else. I know it is a personal choice but we only dressed the tree and put up decorations after the young ones were in bed on Christmas Eve. For them it was always part of their enjoyment and thrill that Christmas was HERE at last, having made sure they were on Santa's 'Good List'!

I so agree that we are in November….and it’s a tall order to really appreciate all the commercialism that Christmas brings, for the next six weeks! I think part of it is to try to get people to spend more (ie greed) and part, a reflection of our society now where there is this constant looking forward and very little acknowledgement of the present moment. I don’t really do anything for Christmas apart from making a cake until well into December and nothing will persuade me otherwise! I passed by a shop yesterday that was playing loud Christmas music rather than go in, so I’m afraid their tactics don’t work on me!

In our home Coke Cola train ad have always been popular.

www.google.com/search?q=coke+cola+train+ad+in+uk&rlz=1CAXCFT_enUS1113&oq=coke+cola+train+ad+in+uk&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAtIBCTE0MTA0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f5217c16,vid:JIsdaHz2I7s,st:0

Watched the Asda one the other day, gnomes everywhere setting up the Christmas goods, I couldn’t raise an indulgent smile at it from start to finish.The M&S one with Dawn French isn’t inspiring either, just a table groaning with expensive food.