Having debate with mates at moment...when I was a kid I remember my mother putting us in a two seated booth
In the supermarket to watch cartoons, while she shopped.
Everyone thinks I'm mad.
Can anyone remember these!!!!!
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1970's 80's Supermarkets
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Posted 7 months ago #
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Oh yes, i do remember them. Never decent cartoons either.
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Pricerite? where did they go?
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I can't remember them
I remember Fine Fare though
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yeah I remember them. im sure they had them in Presto
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70s/80s supermarkets? Cordon Bleu ... didn't they become Iceland?
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didn't have tv until 11 so that sort of thing totally out of the question.
the local Wavy line didn't have one
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The Naafi was our local shop, are they still on the go?
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Presto. Jeeze...
I remember in Co-Op they had old mechanical tills, same as Caters which was bigger, then Caters closed down and Presto's opened and had the new electronic ones. Which use to go wrong quite often. But they used to have a wet fish counter and all the meat you had to buy from the counter, no pre-packaged lumps. Same with cheese.
(Suddenly feels quite old)
Then Presto was bought out by Safeway, who were then bought out by Morrisons. Who then closed the store down, with the loss of dozens and dozens of jobs, leaving the area with no proper supermarket. None of the little shops can cater for the local demand now so people have to get on the bus and go Tescos or Sainsburys. It's made life quite difficult for elderly and not very mobile people though. And it's had a knock on negative effect on the local street market too. Less people coming to shop in the area.
Bloody Morrisons.
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Presto was Fine Fare before even that. Also remember Walter Wilson's, ace!
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We had a Presto but before that it was a Hintons.
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For those in the north-east, remember Hintons?
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We had a Lo Cost by us, also a Fine Fare and an APT
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I remember Fine Fare and International.
Reminds me of being taken to Internantional to get a can of vimto and a milky way by the shop assistant/ god mother at my Grandad's Jewellery Shop.
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I can remember Gateway, later Solo, later Somerfield.
I think I can remember cartoon booths, though not 100% sure I'm not just imagining the image now having heard about them in the OP.
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Dee Discount?
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For those in the north-east, remember Hintons?
Hell yeah, never forget their cornflakes...tasted like cardboard but my mum kept buying them because a box lasted for ages
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always one of these by the door, not seen one for years
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We used to have Hillards and Leos (co op). Presto in our town turned into safeway then lidl.
Remember going shopping at Christmas and they'd go along the queue offering roses chocolates because you had to wait for ages.
Vaguely remember the video booth things but I think they fell into the category of things we were never allowed to play with/on
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Hitons? I thought it was Litons are have I got the wrong one, it had leaf as a logo.
Can't remember the cartoon booths.
I remember the big Woolco at Kenton though, we'd go there just before Xmas most years and I was allowed to stay and play on the video game and little hand held console things in the electronics bit.
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I worked at Safeway in Bracknell in the late 90s (99 I think) and they had a play area for kiddies then. It surprises me that these don't exist today. maybe a security thing?
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I remember all mentioned so far apart from Hintons.
We had a Lipton's on Salford precinct*. Logo shown below. I also remember a lot of Mace outlets - not supermarkets but largish grocery stores.
*Now the very prestigous Salford Shopping City.
EDIT: just for you Drac.
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William Low was our local supermarket in the 70s and 80s. My dad used to do some artwork for them for beer money.
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Key Markets is where my mum did the shopping. £30 it was one week, for a family of 5! Outrageous!
She didn't take us, cos we used to go "Muuum, muuuum, MUM! Get these!" "Muuum, muuum, muuum, MUM! Do we need this?"
I think it's a Netto now.Posted 7 months ago # -
We had a Hillards, now Tesco.
Does anyone remember Carters toy shop in Bradford?
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Supermarkets? I remember we'd walk to the local grocers where my mum would leave her shopping list and then we'd pick it all up later.
I used to hate going to the butchers though - he always called me "snowball", due to my white furry coat.Posted 7 months ago # -
The local mini-mart near me was a [VG] which, we were reliably informed, stood for 'very good.' I wonder in hindsight if it was supposed to be ironic.
IIRC, they had a lot of own-brand goods that were, ahem, "competitively priced," not dissimilar to the Tesco Value stuff these days. Google would suggest that VG was rebranded as Centra or SuperValu; I think ours was rebranded as a laundrette.
But yeah, anyway. I don't know about a 'booth' per se, but I do remember a variant of the fire-engine type things that you could sit and ride in, but instead of rocking backwards and forwards till you vomited Panda cola and American cream soda everywhere, they sedately played WB / Looney Tunes type cartoons.
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Ooh, yeah I remember "Going up the VG" !
I guess the Wavy Line is extinct now too
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Did anyone else have the grocers van that would do the rounds when they were young? It had a door in the back and you'd basically step into a grocers shop inside a van.
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Boardinbob - they still have them over here in Holland.
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We used to have a waitrose. it was where we went to get lunch from school on the days that you didn't go to the chippy, It became a bejam frozen food store before becoming an iceland.
If my father had thought anything of our welfare he would have spotted the signs of urban decay and moved us out of the area straight away.
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In the 90's our local Kwik Save became a.....wait for it.........
Victor Value. Crap name or what?
All this talk of the 70s and 80s prompted this memory. Mmmm. Hot Vimto in one of these - a pyrex tumbler with detachable base/handle.
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My mum used to work at Presto. I used to sit in the cash office with her if she couldn't find a baby sitter.
Somehow can't imaging that happening now (Security reasons, not due to lack of baby sitter as I'm 42 and 3/4).
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Supermarkets? I remember we'd walk to the local grocers where my mum would leave her shopping list and then we'd pick it all up later.
I remember when we would write our list out and the shop would collect the list it then deliver it all for you.
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