Supermarket Christmas Adverts

NotSpaghetti

Those of you who hate the supermarket adverts might like the family shop one I linked to earlier...

This little Welsh shop have made one each year for the last 7 years or so.
You can see their family grow up year on year if you watch them.
I think they are rather nice - they could be about any little family.

Shall have a look - thanks for the link!

For me, it's not so much the supermarket Christmas ads as the whole Supermarket-Christmas schtick.

LindyB.. I thoroughly enjoy Christmas.. between 18th December and 6th January... NOT from the first week in November!
People have so much pressure just getting through the week at the moment.. piling on about an occasion that is still 6 weeks away is too much.
How do we keep Christmas special and magical for children when the tv is screaming at us from now on.
Just sad for parents of young ones...

Those of you who hate the supermarket adverts might like the family shop one I linked to earlier...

This little Welsh shop have made one each year for the last 7 years or so.
You can see their family grow up year on year if you watch them.
I think they are rather nice - they could be about any little family.

LindyB

Well after a particularly upsetting morning I was silly enough to read this thread. Only one nice positive message. With all the sad things happening in the world today, surely Christmas is not something to moan about, I cannot even understand why someone would bin a Christmas card that has presumably meant something to the person that has gone to the trouble of buying, writing and posting it to someone who means something to the sender.

Sorry you had an unsettling morning LindyB - sometimes those kinds of mornings colour the rest of your day.

I think generally it's more the commodification of Christmas that gets to people.

I don't really know what the true spirit of Christmas is - it means different things to different people.

- and for some, it's a sad and lonely time of year.

Anyway, I hope that whatever upset your morning, eventually loses its hold on you. I've had those mornings / days, so feel for you.

Bah! Humbug!

I hate the supermarket Christmas ads. I found the Sainsbury's football in the WWI trenches a particularly tasteless way to boost their sales. Three of my great uncles were killed in WWI and one of my grandfathers suffered from PTSD.

There is no reliable evidence that the football match even took place although it is mentioned "Goodbye to all That" by Robert Graves.

I know, I am a miserable wotsit.

I love it too - it reminds me of my mum , now gone, and the anticipation of my children many many years ago - they were relatively unspoilt and. Christmas was a joyous family gathering 😇

knspol

Local garden centre full of Christmas trees yesterday.
Have any of you seen the Waitrose Christmas advert yet? I saw it yesterday and it had me in floods of tears. I would suggest if anybody has recently lost a partner then don't watch. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive but I cannot imagine why anybody would release such an advert that (imo) will cause distress t so many people.

I think are are getting mixed up with something else knspol, because the Waitrose advertisement is an interactive ‘who dunnit’ about a missing pudding.

I haven't seen a single Christmas ad but Waitrose had small Christmas trees in pots today.

Jaxjacky

knspol

Local garden centre full of Christmas trees yesterday.
Have any of you seen the Waitrose Christmas advert yet? I saw it yesterday and it had me in floods of tears. I would suggest if anybody has recently lost a partner then don't watch. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive but I cannot imagine why anybody would release such an advert that (imo) will cause distress t so many people.

The Waitrose ad is for a Red Velvet Puddng??

Thanks Jaxjacky .
When I watched the Waitrose ad I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t ‘get it* why it was sad.

knspol

Local garden centre full of Christmas trees yesterday.
Have any of you seen the Waitrose Christmas advert yet? I saw it yesterday and it had me in floods of tears. I would suggest if anybody has recently lost a partner then don't watch. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive but I cannot imagine why anybody would release such an advert that (imo) will cause distress t so many people.

The Waitrose ad is for a Red Velvet Puddng??

charley68

Morrisons has REAL Christmas trees on sale!!!!!!!!!

B&Q have had real ones 3 or more weeks ago.
Went B&M a week ago and they had them too. Nearly all of the store is taken up with Christmas stuff.

People who mean something to me don't buy me cards, because I don't want them to.

My next door neighbour has only this year understood that I mean it.
Luckily, she doesnt really like sending them either.
Win/win

Just read the Christmas pudding thread, made me feel much better!

Well after a particularly upsetting morning I was silly enough to read this thread. Only one nice positive message. With all the sad things happening in the world today, surely Christmas is not something to moan about, I cannot even understand why someone would bin a Christmas card that has presumably meant something to the person that has gone to the trouble of buying, writing and posting it to someone who means something to the sender.

i am not a christmas person, not a bah humbug either, still get cards and gifts for gc. i was sent previews of the christmas adverts in emails, i hate the morrisons one, i do not have a tv and use catch up on my laptop for the few things that i do watch, so any adverts that come on i just click the sound off.

Local garden centre full of Christmas trees yesterday.
Have any of you seen the Waitrose Christmas advert yet? I saw it yesterday and it had me in floods of tears. I would suggest if anybody has recently lost a partner then don't watch. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive but I cannot imagine why anybody would release such an advert that (imo) will cause distress t so many people.

Sainsburys have got real Christmas trees in as well 😳🎄

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.