Television news and programmes 1986
BBC2 'All Our Working Lives' part 3 'Counter Revolution' video recording about the history of retailing
- Ref. No: SA/PR/1/8/12/3
- Date: 29 Jan 1986
- Level: File
- Extent: 1 file
- Access: Open
Part 3: Counter Revolution'. Programme discussing the general history of retailing in the UK from late 19th century to the 1980s, illustrated with numerous archive stills and film footage: Tesco, historic shop interiors; Sainsbury's 1915 Pathe News footage and Sainsbury's stills; The Co-op; the living-in system; deliveries of fresh produce from the country; origin of M&S; Boots, first cantilever factory; prosperity of multiples in 1930s; well-to-do managers; hostility to unions; pressure on small shops; Oswald Mosley against the big chains; WWII postwar boom in small shops; rationing; self-service; interview with Lord Sainsbury - had a basket thrown at him - 'no right to expect the customer to do the shop assistant's job'; stealing; RPM [Retail Price Maintenance]; origins of Asda; car parking; shopping centres, dominance of multiples by 1970s; Carnaby Street; Laura Ashley; TV ads; closures of family businesses; Ugandan Asians 1972; bankruptcy of Bourne and Hollingsworth; Sainsbury's trolley park. This video has not been digitized so the contents of it have not been confirmed.
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