[TV] New John Lewis ad.........

Me and my Monkey said:

Lots of negative thoughts popped into my head on watching that, but i feel I should hold my tongue for fear of being crucified.

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Coldeanseagull said:

That is up there with the smash advert. You kids(under 40) watch it on yoo toob

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crodonilson said:

Their Christmas ad out next month.

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John Lewis has revealed plans to axe around 200 roles , less than a day after the firm changed its name to put its staff “at the heart” of its business.

The department store chain has proposed cutting around 200 back office roles from within its organisation, with reports claiming that IT, finance, and store security staff will be affected.

The John Lewis Partnership - which also includes Waitrose - officially rebranded yesterday, changing its name to John Lewis & Partners.

The name change was designed to emphasise the company’s focus on its staff, who are called “partners” internally. The company added that the cuts were being made across its estate of stores, meaning staff in Newcastle could be affected. While 200 staff members will be made redundant as part of the restructure, John Lewis plans to create around 70 new roles as part of the changes.

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Easy 10 said:

Soooooo heartwarming. Once again, John Lewis hits it out of the park with lots and lots of cute kids in a HUGE big budget production. Wow, I feel so warm and fuzzy, its just like Christmas...but in SEPTEMBER !! ....oh...hang on...

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/john-lewis-axe-200-jobs-15115646




Oh. Well, thats a bit shit.

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Coldeanseagull said:

That is up there with the smash advert. You kids(under 40) watch it on yoo toob

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dazzer6666 said:

200 out of nearly 40,000 isn’t close to being shit....obviously crap for those involved but in the great scheme of things barely registers.

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DumLum said:

Hold you tongue. Let your fingers do the talking.

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Me and my Monkey said:

Ok, here goes...

John Lewis is a SHOP that wants nothing more than to sell lots of STUFF to as many people as possible over Christmas in order to makes piles of money. They have cynically wheedled their way into the national psych by creating expensive, well made, often very imaginative commercials to get people’s money spending juices going, and which a lot of people now consider to be an absolutely intrinsic part of Christmas (in September, grrr). It is the absolute peak of the corruption and commercialisation of Christmas. Christmas (to me) should be something joyful, magical, spiritual, but it’s depressing to see how year on year it is bringing untold misery on families who simply can’t afford it.

I particularly didn’t like this advert because:

Cutesy children;
Dewey eyed parents;
Lyric change to “Mama just killed a man (Martian), held a gun (taser) against his head, pulled the trigger now he’s dead (‘No, I’m not!’)” - let’s not frighten the children with scary lyrics.
And I CAN’T STAND bloody Queen.

There. I’ve said it. Now I’m going to go and hide under the bed.

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Me and my Monkey said:

Ok, here goes...

John Lewis is a SHOP that wants nothing more than to sell lots of STUFF to as many people as possible over Christmas in order to makes piles of money. They have cynically wheedled their way into the national psych by creating expensive, well made, often very imaginative commercials to get people’s money spending juices going, and which a lot of people now consider to be an absolutely intrinsic part of Christmas (in September, grrr). It is the absolute peak of the corruption and commercialisation of Christmas. Christmas (to me) should be something joyful, magical, spiritual, but it’s depressing to see how year on year it is bringing untold misery on families who simply can’t afford it.

I particularly didn’t like this advert because:

Cutesy children;
Dewey eyed parents;
Lyric change to “Mama just killed a man (Martian), held a gun (taser) against his head, pulled the trigger now he’s dead (‘No, I’m not!’)” - let’s not frighten the children with scary lyrics.
And I CAN’T STAND bloody Queen.

There. I’ve said it. Now I’m going to go and hide under the bed.

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Me and my Monkey said:

Ok, here goes...

John Lewis is a SHOP that wants nothing more than to sell lots of STUFF to as many people as possible over Christmas in order to makes piles of money. They have cynically wheedled their way into the national psych by creating expensive, well made, often very imaginative commercials to get people’s money spending juices going, and which a lot of people now consider to be an absolutely intrinsic part of Christmas (in September, grrr). It is the absolute peak of the corruption and commercialisation of Christmas. Christmas (to me) should be something joyful, magical, spiritual, but it’s depressing to see how year on year it is bringing untold misery on families who simply can’t afford it.

I particularly didn’t like this advert because:

Cutesy children;
Dewey eyed parents;
Lyric change to “Mama just killed a man (Martian), held a gun (taser) against his head, pulled the trigger now he’s dead (‘No, I’m not!’)” - let’s not frighten the children with scary lyrics.
And I CAN’T STAND bloody Queen.

There. I’ve said it. Now I’m going to go and hide under the bed.

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