JL Christmas ad

When I see their ads when everything seems to be far too cheap to be true I have to wonder at the quality (or lack of it) or am I being too picky?

No Ann you are not being too picky! You get what you pay for. At the height of the horsemeat fiasco, Iceland had their products checked. The chicken pie didn't contain horsemeat or ANY meat of any description. The experts said they didn't know what it was, just unidentified vegetable matter! Don't go there.

This thread is making me giggle!

The British Legion don't always get things right
Greenfinch like all big charities their marketing is done by a huge marketing team these days and, to continue to keep the public's interest when there are so many charities claiming our money, I suppose they have to keep thinking of new ideas.
Many of them are run like big businesses.

merlotgran

Well, they have got Peter Andre for their advert. Nuff said!
The thing is jingls Peter will be counting his millions on his fingers, not his pounds! (not-so-daft).

So far as food is concerned, I'm with roses are red and anasixty, you get what you pay for.

I saw the Sainsbury's ad again last night, I still found it very moving and the fact it's approved by the RBL and that profits from the chocolate bars go to that charity makes it ok for me.

I try to avoid watching ads by pausing and fast forwarding. I suppose this is why businesses have to make them a talking point so that we make an effort to watch them.

The Sainsbury's advert is, in my view, emotionally manipulative and unprincipled - but then that's what all adverts are, aren't they? But I find it especially ghastly that they are piggy backing on the tragedy of war and the plight of soldiers.

The fact that the RBL approved this advert does not reassure me. The RBL also approved BAE's and Lockheed Martin's sponsorship of various Poppy Day events - something which I think takes irony to a new level.

stopwar.org.uk/news/good-for-the-killing-business-how-the-world-s-biggest-arms-dealers-exploit-remembrance-day

I am uncomfortable with the Sainsburys ad too - it is an over-sanitised version of a well know WW I incident but all the time you know it is pushing up the millions of profits for Sainsburys. I am delighted that they are giving generously to the British Legion, but there are some areas I personally would prefer to see kept out of commercial advertising.
And bottom line - would it make me go to Sainsburys? Actually no, not on account of their advertising, only if I wanted to anyway.
Now I might go looking to ppppick up a penguin at John Lewis....!

For £95.00?

Who said anything about paying for it?

You are only going to look at it aren't you soutra? I don't think you'd get it under your coat.

Nearly all the penguin products,and there are lots and lots,are currently out of stock at JL.Now that really is the power of advertising.

Please tell me we're not going to have to suffer 'Happy Feet' on Christmas Day again.

Oh God! No!

No. JL don't own the Beeb yet. Do they?!

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£95

more money than sense some people grumble grumble

All quite nauseating, I think. Fast forward is the answer.

Well I think it's sweet and won't change my mind .

Seen it at last. Don't think much of it. It's not as good as Bear and Hare.

And not half as good as The Journey...

If they've sold out of penguins there is no point in going into JL!
Except to take back the top I bought and didn't like when I tried it on at home.

When JL Christmas stock has gone it's gone; they don't restock [we were told that when we went to get a Christmas tree]. If anyone needs a penguin you can have one of mine; if I have a spare hour or so I'll count how many I have. If I can sort out my technophobia I'll take a group photo and put it up here ....

Ooh! They lied then - they said they'd be getting more penguins in asap. Perhaps that was just to thwart the opportunists trying to sell theirs on e-bay for £500!

....except for penguins ....[it seems]

Here's a cheeky parody of the advert from a Welsh furniture company

youtu.be/BUOfjmUTDkM

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