h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The Morrisons advert. First view you know what it's for all the way through, just not for which supermarket.

2nd view it is far from "fresh" it's boring, boring, boring!

they seem to have dropped Sean Bean for the voiceover so I'm not interested in their ads now

I'd love to have seen it if she was with the cow when she was going on about fresh beef.

I saw the Adios herbal diet pill ad recently. At the bottom of the screen the small print said, "The best way to lose weight is a calorie-controlled diet and exercise." I think it also said something about the pill not working for everybody, or words to that effect. So for the first time we have an ad that admits the product is a load of rubbish.

'Buy our product... It'll get rid of any excess fluids in your body so you think you're losing weight. If it works on you... Oh, and it's not very good for you... really, there's much better ways but that wnont make US the money and would mean YOU actually doing something about yourself!'

It's Ariel with the 30 degrees campaign.
You're not alone, GRJ. I will never buy ANYTHING by French Connection UK for their stupid slogan, I did buy from mfi but it was before their current ads, and a few years back, living in Israel there was a story about how geese or mullards were fattened to be made into pate' and it was so horrendeous I stopped buying any of those products too. Some things are just WRONG.

I do, however, like the Asda ads with Liza Tarbuck. The others were nice too, but not as good as hers. The ad with Martin Clunes going to Tesco to get milk "straight from the cow" annoyed me, though. Surely you don't have Tescos all over the countryside (yet) or there won't be any of it left!

Just had to add this one - on ITV4 the midnight ad break during the 'Scorpion King' had nothing apart from chat lines advertising on it ...(apart from a trailer from ITV2 showing a season of Bruce Willis films)

Argh, that Shreddies advert is driving me mad! Ok, so shreddies do taste like chewing wool, but it's perpetuating the myth that only grannies knit, making it harder for young people to just get on with it.

Oh yes, and that stupid advert for a cleaning product that shows someone wiping away dirt, and all the time the legend 'repeated scrubbing may be required' is floating across the screen. Surely that's a joke?

There seems to be a lot of supermarket ads on at the moment. I was wondering how much effect they actually have. I tend to just go to the nearest store, with the odd foray to a bigger one (also geographically convenient) for a big shop after pay day. Occasionally I might go further afield when I just can't face the traffic or crowds at the nearest one.

But which particular chain to use just isn't a factor. They all stock pretty much everything I need. How many people are near enough to more than one supermarket for these ads to make any difference?

me
we have a cheap supermarket (not the discount chains, a supermarket that advertises everything as "cheap")
I never go there because it is cheap. As in cheap and rubbish. What I want is quality at a price I can afford

So I use a bigger supermarket, near where I work. although I have to grit my teeth because it's one of the chains that my union is having a problem with over pay and conditions for the staff.

And as much as I can I use local shops or farms. But I'm not rich.

It would be a matter of having a little more time for me, if I did I would never buy, for instance, veg, at the supermarket... And probably never meat either. They would provide me with what little I require in terms of frozen foods, washing powder, juice, peanut butter, baked beans etc. You get far more value for money from proper greengrocers or similar and butchers. But money I can just about manage, time when these places are open is not a something I have.

To be honest, I dont choose which supermarket I go to by anything other than where I am when I need to buy shopping. If I'm home, I'll go to the one by mmy house, if I'm at work, there's a different one on a slightly alternative route home... And there are others depending where I am. I find that all of them have pluses and minuses against each other, some simply dont stock the range in a certain area but have more options in other areas...

I would say that the ads dont really work. Except that if I was a miwwionnaire I would shop at waitrose. I like to enjoy my shopping, I like it to be a pleasure. It can be fun when you have time! (and even more when you have money!)

You don't have to be a millionaire to shop at Waitrose. I like it because it seems to be almost impossible to buy rubbish food there.

RF

haha, no really, I notice the difference when I buy at sains instead of tesco or asda, and yes, the quality improves (though I dont like sains smoked bacon... too sweet IMO) but I couldnt justify the leap to waitrose myself, a very stretched budget recoils in horror!

Doesn't make any difference to me - except I won't shop in Asda because I know someone who works in Environmental Health and they are apparently always having trouble with them. Which puts me off nearly as much as their parent company. I also won't shop in Tesco, because there seems to be a bit of confusion between the only union shop workers can join being something to do with the actual company.

At one point I always used Somerfields, because it was closer to the car park, now I use Sainsbury's because the car park is even closer, and now I've only got a motorhome it's the only car park in my town I can get into.

But I am trying to give up supermarkets. My problem is impatience - I'd have to drive to three different places to shop, plus queue more than once. But I am trying.

I go to whichever is nearest and within budget. Morrison's are currently getting my big tinned/frozen/household shop with the Londis on the corner filling in the gaps (fresh herbs, veg, bread and stuff.)

I don't think I've seen an advert for either.

*boycotting Morrisons until the Beanster is back doing the ad voiceovers*

That must be quite an easy boycott from where you are!

RF

shhhhhhhh! don't tell everyone!
gah!

OK. I won't tell anyone you're in Germany. They'd never be able to tell from your posts/threads/journals, would they?

RF