Supermarket Christmas Adverts

My neighbour 30 year old living on her own put her Christmas tree up on 6th November crazy

November is too early for a tree I think!
Ours only goes up just before the day though.

I've just popped to Waitrose for milk because we were away at the weekend.
There were at least 10 real Christmas trees, without pots, outside in the metal plant cage, and another half a dozen or so in the foyer.
Bonkers!

NotSpaghetti

November is too early for a tree I think!
Ours only goes up just before the day though.

There won’t be any left in the stores by 1st Dec 🤣

When l walked Toby last night, l noticed at least 6 houses with Christmas decorations up and lights on.
I love Christmas but always wait until December 1st.
I noticed Sainsburys had real Christmas trees on Friday, surely they won't last until Christmas day.

They'll probably be just binned, I'd imagine.

It’s just all so fake.

Tables groaning with food, happy families in Christmas hats and jumpers, beautifully wrapped presents, excited but adorable children…..

In real life, is it like that?

No wonder you get sick of it all and just want it all done and dusted, with no fuss.

Well, that’s how I feel about it all.

Bah humbug.

It puts an awful lot of pressure on those with less than perfect set ups all of us

Beechnut

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.

The Waitrose add I watched is about a man who has lost his wife and goes walking to the same spot they used to go to and a robin usually joins him until one day it's hurt and he takes it home to look after etc etc

Oreo - not everyone goes to a shop for their tree.
We have two local growers and go there. I suppose technically it's a shop but really it's a farmyard.

They have trees up to Christmas eve.
Forgot the main point!

The Waitrose ad I watched is about a man who has lost his wife and goes walking to the same spot they used to go to and a robin usually joins him until one day it's hurt and he takes it home to look after etc etc

No, that is nothing to do with Waitrose or John Lewis.

NotAGran55

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.

My apologies it's the John Lewis advert I saw which I found upsetting.

I like the Amazon one particularly the beaming face of the lady who makes it happen. The Lidl one is sweet. Child helps old lady and gets given some Christmas magic and the little girl sends present to another child and best of all include him in a sledge ride. Spirit of Christmas.

A few years ago I organised a Christmas tree for elderly aunt with dementia months before Christmas. She described what she wanted in a confused way and I thought she might not be here Christmas so why not.

She's still going strong and doesn't seem interested in Christmas trees. You can't win them all but it felt important at the time.

Last Christmas baby GS was pretty new. The Christmas lights and stuff in The Range fascinated him. We walked him round so many times and lots of staff and customers had to smile at his squeals of excitement. Through the eyes of a child. I was excited to do it this year. He's far too sophisticated a toddler to be interested. Sad gran.

NotSpaghetti

Oreo - not everyone goes to a shop for their tree.
We have two local growers and go there. I suppose technically it's a shop but really it's a farmyard.

We've nice nurseries near. Locally grown trees.

Norah

NotSpaghetti

Oreo - not everyone goes to a shop for their tree.
We have two local growers and go there. I suppose technically it's a shop but really it's a farmyard.

We've nice nurseries near. Locally grown trees.

I wouldn’t know as I don’t do Christmas trees, it sounds very expensive going to a grower, what does it cost?
Better really to get a fake tree and keep it a long time, better in the end for being ‘green’ surely and the land used for something else growing.
Christmas trees only came into fashion in Victorian times in the UK, before that it was a German tradition.
Here it was decorating with holly and ivy, probably a pagan tradition.

MissAdventure

I think we'll need a thread for loathers.
Then we can moan to our heart's content, without upsetting people who love Christmas.

I love Christmas and I'm not upset by the 'loathers' - so loathe away as far as I'm concerned 😁

I do loathe the run up to Christmas and all the hype, but we just opt out of it all and do our own thing and enjoy what we do.

escaped

I've just popped to Waitrose for milk because we were away at the weekend.
There were at least 10 real Christmas trees, without pots, outside in the metal plant cage, and another half a dozen or so in the foyer.
Bonkers!

I apologise to Waitrose. I must have been half asleep at 8 am this morning! Just went back for some more shopping and the Christmas trees are in pots.
Still bonkers though!

Oreo it's not cheap but not expensive either.
Don't forget even supermarket trees come ftom "a grower".

Our lights and baubles are old so no extra expense there... Many baubles from the 1950s added to over the years in ones and twos. Lights not so old - 2010 I think.

I don't actually mind that "real" trees are pricey as you are buying something that's been taking up a plot of land for many years. It's not like buying a cabbage or a sweetcorn or even most shrubs. Also, I only buy Norway Spruce - and they aren't always available in supermarkets.

Yes I'm fussy about my trees!
When we had a big garden we had three trees and brought them inside in rotation. That obviously cost just space in the garden, and effort!

I suspect that what you call not expensive NotSpaghetti I would find very expensive 😄but there you are we’re all different.

I may do a tasteful bit of tinsel or two draped around the house, 🤭 tasteful and tinsel used in the same sentence.

Yes, all relative Oreo.
As you don't do Christmas Trees it's obviously cheaper not to have a tree at all!

So yes. any tree is expensive if you compare it to no tree!

But sometimes we do things just for the joy of it.

(I like fireworks too... and perfumes abd nice bath products occasionally).

I am intrigued to know where the Sam Clegg video is being shown, and why people think it is John Lewis or Waitrose?

There is nothing in it to advertise either company.

The JL one is going to air on Thursday this week.