Supermarket Christmas Adverts

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.

Ditto

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.

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...

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.

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

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

All that for some sprouts and a turkey.

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

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.

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!

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

Here it is
It was actually a hardware shop.

youtu.be/pDtCXO71FJU?si=nTFmE3zD2zFVNMgW

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

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 😩

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?

Beechnut

I received my first Christmas card today 🎄

And my second today.

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 .

I've yet to see a TV ad for the big stores that I like yet this year. Possibly the Amazon one. They go on for far too long too.

I went into a large store to look for something mundane yesterday. I was amazed at the huge displays taking up enormous space full of Christmas tat, mostly non biodegradable. I can't see how they will possibly sell it all. Ridiculous as it' was 7th November too.

Then to think this is reproduced in thousands of large stores [and the waste it will produce] countrywide made me feel nauseous. Gone are the days when we went out to find ivy, mistletoe, holly, rose hips etc to make our own decorations and/or wreaths for the front door. My Mum would also find interesting twigs and pine cones and make arrangements, often spraying them gold or silver for eg.

I dislike consumerism, commercialism and greed. If short of money for bills and food then why waste it on this cheap plastic, synthetic, artificial rubbish.

I love Christmas so at the moment I can put up with it. Haven’t got my tree up though definitely a December thing for me.

I'm bored with Christmas adverts already. I find them really irritating. I just can't get into Christmas yet so no doubt I'll have a big rush!!!!

It is just a waste.

My mum's always looked beautiful, with all the cards she got, but she really went out of her way to send them, too.

When I had to take over getting them for her, there was "from our house to yours", "to wonderful neighbours" "to a lovely couple", "to friends we don't forget"... it drove me batty!

MissAdventure

Christmas cards go straight in the bin, here.

I feel rotten, but I don't want them.

We don't get many anymore, the grown family don't 'do' cards, their generation don't, and have lost a lot of friends in the past few years, am not enormously careless I mean they have died, and I don't work anymore so don't get cards from colleagues.
I sort of miss it in a way, could tell from the handwriting on the card who it was from, and it was a way of keeping in touch with friends up North where I used to live.
But I would also throw them out after a while, I suppose is just more waste.

I don't like many ads but the one for Amazon with the caretaker singing on stage in a jacket is a nice one.

I understand the need for supermarkets to advertise early. So many people place click and collect and delivery orders early so they can get their slots