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I like the fact that they do TV adverts – hopefully it will at least get people talking, discussing and looking at all manner of possible options…
You may be right, but I’m not so optimistic about it, Evelyn. The worst part is that it’s a very good advert that makes its point, but it reinforces the image of funerals as off-the-shelf products that haven’t changed in living memory, and aren’t going to other than by rebranding them with fabulously imaginitive outside the box thinking such as taking the hearse on a detour.
Hovis funerals, with chilli jam.
I agree with Evelyn – it may just get people talking about their own funeral ideas.
Jonathan – you too are spot on! Hovis with Wilkins of Tiptree jam?
PS And who squashed that poor big bloke into the middle seat? 🙂
They make it all look very cosy don’t they? I wonder how they would have done it had his hobby been travelling on the Dover-Calais ferry ?
I think you are harsh, Jonathan. How many other funeral directors would offer a detour? This is a USP. You forgot to add ‘and stop on a bridge’.
I’m not so sure about the ‘grim oop north’ canal. And I’d prefer a salute to the rather dyspeptic bow. But I hope it gets people talking.
Oh alright, Charles; just to make up, here’s a little poem to read at the funeral –
‘Straight from the fridge
and over the bridge
across the canal.
How banal.’
I wish I could have written that.
I think that in this Country we are always going to have traditional funerals after all this is England and we are Traditionalists . The funeral I arrange and conduct and the families I look after 95% of them have a traditional funeral its very rare to have anything else although the option is there.
Hmmm.
I completely agree, Ru.
You raise an extremely interesting point, Mark. I have to say, I’m with Ru for all sorts of reasons. This may be a debate for another time, perhaps? It’s one we should certainly have.
Yes, let’s.
Yes Charles there is always room for a Debate always happy to have a good discussion
It’s a shame they didn’t find time in the Ad to feature their industrial estate premises as the start point. After all, they are proud of them?
Then again – I suppose the slogan ‘you get your own personal space in our warehouse too’ doesn’t exactly have the same cosy feel to it.
Mebbe the ad agency wasn’t shown the warehouse.
…or maybe the ad agency thought it wouldn’t be such a positive, helpful selling point… or am I being just a tad cynical …
yep
yet yet more expensive F’care advertising and of course built into the cost of their funerals, nothing is done by them without passing ‘the costs on’
andrew
I think all the fisherpeople would have been at the funeral, surely?
Blindingly obvious now you point it out! They should be seen shuffling, ashamed, into a following minibus.
Good point Sweetpea!! DOH!
Maybe someone told them it was those guys who make racist comments about the mourners?
What is the connection between your comment and the advert and the Co-operative behind it?
Jonathan
Why would you refer to the racist comments made by the staff of Funeral Partners Ltd when commenting on an advert for The Cooperative Funeralcare, none of us can make the connection?
and so out there in ‘Funeralcare land’………………..
it’s very much biz as usual………………………………….
and in the meantime, some of us, remain constantly patient awaiting a reply from those at the top to last year’s televised debacle
yes, I know, I really have to shape up and start being a realist
andrew
Afternoon Andrew, Out of interest exactly what sort of reply are you waiting for? One to you personally? To the readers of these blogs? To the NAFD? To the staff of Funeralcare? The public in general? What would be satisfactory? I do not mean to be difficult, I am genuinely interested to know because the matter is raised fairly often, not of course just by you. Your earlier comment about the cost of advertising being built into the cost of their funerals was interesting. The cost of advertising for any funeral director large or small has to come from somewhere,… Read more »
If TV advertising is the future – perhaps we will end up following the American model – funeral director Ads urging the public to switch funeral directors if they bought a plan and subsequently ‘went off’ the nominated FD? Change of ownership also seems to be a motivator.
As for the NAFD response to the TV documentaries, the latest NAFD magazine says their investigation is still ongoing. Hopefully some kind of formal comment will eventually be made? I think many members around the country will demand it.
I find that most of the families I work with think traditional is the way to go. That is until you offer them something different. I suggest it’s funeral directors who need to change and offer a bit more than we are used to. I say good on the coop this time.