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My local Tesco are trying to get local businesses to advertise on the side of trolley parks and various walls near the store, might be a trial or an enthusiastic manager experimenting?

I'm fairly sure I've seen advertising on trolley parks before, but can't quite remember if it was for non-Tesco products. Sorry, that's not very useful, is it?

Critique's pound shop posts just reminded me of this shop I saw when I was in Kirkwall earlier in the year:


Most items £1.20, presumably to reflect the cost of getting stuff to Orkney. It was still just £1 for a trolley though. And they left them out on the street overnight.

(Incidentally, Dealz is also the brand that Poundland use in Ireland)

thegeek wrote:I'm fairly sure I've seen advertising on trolley parks before, but can't quite remember if it was for non-Tesco products. Sorry, that's not very useful, is it?

Critique's pound shop posts just reminded me of this shop I saw when I was in Kirkwall earlier in the year:


Most items £1.20, presumably to reflect the cost of getting stuff to Orkney. It was still just £1 for a trolley though. And they left them out on the street overnight.

(Incidentally, Dealz is also the brand that Poundland use in Ireland)

Yes, also the same in the Isle of Man. Most items are €1.49 I believe.

Was that a former Woolworths by any chance?

As mentioned in the past Euro50 stores is the umbrella that 99p stores operate under in ROI. So they're more expensive than Poundland's Dealz.

Definitely a former Woolies. Along with the entrance arrangement, the polished granite stall riser is a give away.

Are the discount brands making a subtle exit from Tesco? I am seeing less and less of them. In fact apart from the crisps and the... no it's genuinely only the crisps I remember seeing recently.

Pete wrote:Are the discount brands making a subtle exit from Tesco? I am seeing less and less of them. In fact apart from the crisps and the... no it's genuinely only the crisps I remember seeing recently.

I bought their fake brand sundried tomatoes the other day.

That was interesting.

Pete wrote:Are the discount brands making a subtle exit from Tesco? I am seeing less and less of them. In fact apart from the crisps and the... no it's genuinely only the crisps I remember seeing recently.

The Creamfields stuff is still going strong. I guess it serves a purpose of sorts in that instance though.

thegeek wrote:It used to be a little bit more specific:

Just to track the ridiculousness of this - in the latest Christmas in a Day ads, they've had the squishy machine at work:

Shatliff Sans?

I thought there were ASA regulations about the minimum line height of small print in TV ads - I wonder if they ought to start applying it to character width too?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at Sainsbury's using I Belive In Father Christmas in their Christmas advert, did they not even make any attempts to listen to the lyrics beforehand? A song that describes the nativity as a "fairy story", and is a protest against the commercialisation of Christmas is hardly appropriate for a Christmas advert.