Yeah. The first few times I saw it I wasn't really paying attention, but yesterday morning it came on and I followed it and all of a sudden I thought "Ohhhh, S**T, he's dead!!!"
It's like The Sixth Sense condensed into 30 seconds and directed by a Care Bear.
The new Waitrose advert irritates the hell out of me.
"1000 of our products are the same price as Tescos."
Note: they're not cheaper, not better value, they're the same price.
So presumably the other products they stock are dearer?
Given the choice between visiting Tescos or Waitrose, why the hell would anyone visit their supermarket?
Surely, this advert will bring more people to Tescos, if anything?
"Wow, Tesco must be cheap if Waitrose are using their prices as a selling point!"
Yeah. The first few times I saw it I wasn't really paying attention, but yesterday morning it came on and I followed it and all of a sudden I thought "Ohhhh, S**T, he's dead!!!"
It's like The Sixth Sense condensed into 30 seconds and directed by a Care Bear.
I noticed the other day that you only see three passports (there are four people in the advert)...it reminded me of the visual clues that are throughout The Sixth Sense.
The Audi advert with images which remind me of continually morphing versions of women's reproductive organs. It's accompanied by awful, droning bass music which I find quite unsettling and aggressive. :eek:
I don't know who this advert would appeal to but it wouldn't encourage me to buy an Audi!
The Waitroise ad is saying "Waitroise is cheaper than you think" I guess.
Only 1000 items are a match for Tesco? How many items does a supermarket stock??
That's a lot of items where Waitrose are not a match for the price.
Unless it's the only local supermarket then surely many must be shopping there for the staus.
I remember a program with Ainsley Harriot where he was in Harrods and he said something like "look, you can even get Heinz Baked Beans" and they were about 4 times the price of any supermarket.
The Audi advert with images which remind me of continually morphing versions of women's reproductive organs. It's accompanied by awful, droning bass music which I find quite unsettling and aggressive. :eek:
I don't know who this advert would appeal to but it wouldn't encourage me to buy an Audi!
I find that music intresting in the way it fades in & out and goes compressed/muffled.
I noticed the other day that you only see three passports (there are four people in the advert)...it reminded me of the visual clues that are throughout The Sixth Sense.
But surely the little kid would be on the mum/dad's?
It's an awful advert and really isn't very sensitive. Luckily, I haven't suffered anything untimely, but I should imagine that it would upset people who have.
In other news, the Keith, Ian and Andy ads are just terrible. I didn't know it was possible for ITV to make their constant adverts any more annoying. I pray for bankruptcy every time I'm forced to watch any of their utterly dire channels.
That's a lot of items where Waitrose are not a match for the price.
Unless it's the only local supermarket then surely many must be shopping there for the staus.
If there was a Waitrose nearer to me than 25 miles away, I'd shop there in preference to Sainsbury's, and it has nothing to do with status.
They price match on 1,000 key items, but they also sell thousands more products that you can't ordinarily get easily, and the quality of the fruit and veg is massively superior.
That latest "isn't the BBC great?" ad with all the stars from their populist shows liike Apprentice, Strictly, MOTD etc. As if the BBC spening licencepayers' money on adverts to tell us how good it is isn't enough, I could swear the voiceover at the end says "Haitch D".
Park Christmas Catalog. I've mentioned it before but it's been played every single day throughout January in what feels like every ad break I've come across. Often, it's played twice in the same break.
This sort of excessive commercialism is what's killed off Christmas for me. The fact that the woman in the ad is irritating beyond belief doesn't help.
The new Waitrose advert irritates the hell out of me.
"1000 of our products are the same price as Tescos."
Note: they're not cheaper, not better value, they're the same price.
So presumably the other products they stock are dearer?
Given the choice between visiting Tescos or Waitrose, why the hell would anyone visit their supermarket?
Surely, this advert will bring more people to Tescos, if anything?
"Wow, Tesco must be cheap if Waitrose are using their prices as a selling point!"
some items are even sold BELOW what it costs the Super-market to buy, stock and sell them, known in the trade as "Lost leaders", this was made possible by the 1964 Resale Prices Act, before which manufacturers could ensure that all out-lets sold at the same price.
Lost leaders get the customer into the store, hence the adverts detailing then, once one is in they expect the customer to either A) think all items must be cheaper OR "I'm here now, I'm not going all the way to the other end of the high-street to see what might be cheaper there".
The 1964 RPM act is what helped the super-markets kill off the little family local corner grocer, he just couldn't compete with the prices, this put the super-market chains in such a powerful position, able to bully local councils into granting out-of-town, Green-field planning which has killed off local high-streets, and able to dictate price to their suppliers and of course it is why the British Dairy farmer is now a dire position
I noticed another new Wonga advert this morning, with Wongaman as a variety of animated dinosaurs; also he shouts 'GRAVY!' at the end...isn't 'WONGA!' bad enough?
I know Ive said it before but the Asda one with the woman and her 'friends', checking there prices in a long and boring way are so irritating.
'So if my shopping is cheaper I can still have a voucher.' Shut up all of you. Or get better actors who look like they acutally care about this nonsense.
I have noticed she always 'invites' different 'friends' to go with her to asda and share her wisdom. Mainly I would guess because she bores the pants of all of them and she never sees them again.
I think I saw another one today with the main woman just talking about checking the prices and the benefits for ages and then one woman going 'yeh thats good' in monotone voice at the end. She seriously wasn't listening and sounded like she didn't give a shit either.
T mobile ads.
I don't mind the flashmob airport ads at all and I prefer watching it the whole way through as well. My favorite is the one with the man going 'Oh my god I can't believe it', he looks so funny doing it, his eyes look like they are popping out of his head. I'd lol if someone did that to me at the airport.
The Return of the mack one annoys me though.
It's like when they dished out the songs to the different groups, the 'youngish men group', in that song thought 'yes we have got such a hip and current song, lets be really funky with it and show this airport just how cool we are', and thats what there 'trying' to do in the advert and going way OTT, thinking we look so amazing doing this, we are ripping this joint up.
Oh and Wonga man as well. Clearly people hated him first time round in the one he was in with loads of other people, the way he says 'WONGA', and people complained or was talking about him being awful, so the makers thought it was a genius idea to bring him back on his own and make all those rubbish adverts. I hate the way he says 'WONGA'. Your not having any of my old phones in protest for doing that.
I noticed another new Wonga advert this morning, with Wongaman as a variety of animated dinosaurs; also he shouts 'GRAVY!' at the end...isn't 'WONGA!' bad enough?
I haven't heard "Gravy" used for money since I was a kid in nineteen hundred and typing error
Park Christmas Catalog. I've mentioned it before but it's been played every single day throughout January in what feels like every ad break I've come across. Often, it's played twice in the same break.
This sort of excessive commercialism is what's killed off Christmas for me. The fact that the woman in the ad is irritating beyond belief doesn't help.
Great minds think alike. I think someone ought to tell that bint Christmas is over. Awful advert anyway, that black woman giving the "nod", half-assed actresses and actors looking like they'd rather be elsewhere.
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My god those adverts annoy me! :sleep:
Yeah. The first few times I saw it I wasn't really paying attention, but yesterday morning it came on and I followed it and all of a sudden I thought "Ohhhh, S**T, he's dead!!!"
It's like The Sixth Sense condensed into 30 seconds and directed by a Care Bear.
Keith, Ian and Andy. Are they supposed to be likeable? If so, they have failed because they just seem like utter imbeciles.
"1000 of our products are the same price as Tescos."
Note: they're not cheaper, not better value, they're the same price.
So presumably the other products they stock are dearer?
Given the choice between visiting Tescos or Waitrose, why the hell would anyone visit their supermarket?
Surely, this advert will bring more people to Tescos, if anything?
"Wow, Tesco must be cheap if Waitrose are using their prices as a selling point!"
I noticed the other day that you only see three passports (there are four people in the advert)...it reminded me of the visual clues that are throughout The Sixth Sense.
I don't know who this advert would appeal to but it wouldn't encourage me to buy an Audi!
Only 1000 items are a match for Tesco? How many items does a supermarket stock??
That's a lot of items where Waitrose are not a match for the price.
Unless it's the only local supermarket then surely many must be shopping there for the staus.
I remember a program with Ainsley Harriot where he was in Harrods and he said something like "look, you can even get Heinz Baked Beans" and they were about 4 times the price of any supermarket.
Reminded me a little of Muse.
But surely the little kid would be on the mum/dad's?
It's an awful advert and really isn't very sensitive. Luckily, I haven't suffered anything untimely, but I should imagine that it would upset people who have.
In other news, the Keith, Ian and Andy ads are just terrible. I didn't know it was possible for ITV to make their constant adverts any more annoying. I pray for bankruptcy every time I'm forced to watch any of their utterly dire channels.
My local Sainsbury's, which is 77,000 sq ft and one of the biggest around, stocks just over 26,000 items.
But the point is, how many of them does any one customer actually buy? I bet I don't buy 1,000 different products over the course of a year there,
If there was a Waitrose nearer to me than 25 miles away, I'd shop there in preference to Sainsbury's, and it has nothing to do with status.
They price match on 1,000 key items, but they also sell thousands more products that you can't ordinarily get easily, and the quality of the fruit and veg is massively superior.
This sort of excessive commercialism is what's killed off Christmas for me. The fact that the woman in the ad is irritating beyond belief doesn't help.
Lost leaders get the customer into the store, hence the adverts detailing then, once one is in they expect the customer to either A) think all items must be cheaper OR
The 1964 RPM act is what helped the super-markets kill off the little family local corner grocer, he just couldn't compete with the prices, this put the super-market chains in such a powerful position, able to bully local councils into granting out-of-town, Green-field planning which has killed off local high-streets, and able to dictate price to their suppliers and of course it is why the British Dairy farmer is now a dire position
'So if my shopping is cheaper I can still have a voucher.' Shut up all of you. Or get better actors who look like they acutally care about this nonsense.
I have noticed she always 'invites' different 'friends' to go with her to asda and share her wisdom. Mainly I would guess because she bores the pants of all of them and she never sees them again.
I think I saw another one today with the main woman just talking about checking the prices and the benefits for ages and then one woman going 'yeh thats good' in monotone voice at the end. She seriously wasn't listening and sounded like she didn't give a shit either.
T mobile ads.
I don't mind the flashmob airport ads at all and I prefer watching it the whole way through as well. My favorite is the one with the man going 'Oh my god I can't believe it', he looks so funny doing it, his eyes look like they are popping out of his head. I'd lol if someone did that to me at the airport.
The Return of the mack one annoys me though.
It's like when they dished out the songs to the different groups, the 'youngish men group', in that song thought 'yes we have got such a hip and current song, lets be really funky with it and show this airport just how cool we are', and thats what there 'trying' to do in the advert and going way OTT, thinking we look so amazing doing this, we are ripping this joint up.
Oh and Wonga man as well. Clearly people hated him first time round in the one he was in with loads of other people, the way he says 'WONGA', and people complained or was talking about him being awful, so the makers thought it was a genius idea to bring him back on his own and make all those rubbish adverts. I hate the way he says 'WONGA'. Your not having any of my old phones in protest for doing that.
Great minds think alike. I think someone ought to tell that bint Christmas is over. Awful advert anyway, that black woman giving the "nod", half-assed actresses and actors looking like they'd rather be elsewhere.
"People have a lot of misconceptions about California. But none of them are really true."
Well that's why they're called "misconceptions", isn't it?! :rolleyes: