SkylinePhoto Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 I dont think there is anything you can buy in Woolworths that you cant buy somewhere else. It went bankrupt because no one shopped there anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentP Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 Did they ever try to repackage themselves back then because all I remember (as said already) is the places looked tired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockdoctor Posted April 25, 2017 Share Posted April 25, 2017 An interesting article date November 2008 "When Woolworths first flung open its doors in New York in 1879, it was the Victorian equivalent of the £1 shop, selling everything from stationery to dish cloths for just five cents" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/nov/19/woolworths-retail-department-stores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmberLeaf Posted April 26, 2017 Author Share Posted April 26, 2017 Did they ever try to repackage themselves back then because all I remember (as said already) is the places looked tired. I don't think they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazarus Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Woolworths are still in business in other parts of the world, they are big in Australia,they own Hotels, filling stations etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyboy Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 They failed because they tried going up market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm06 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Me and my mom used to go there for their cafe on Saturday morning when we went in to town and when I was walking through the store I always used to ask myself what was the real point of the place. To me it seemed to just sell a load of tat sort of like the owner got his hands on a load of stuff and he just tried to flog it in one shop. That being said I was young and when they closed I wasn't that old either so a lot of the stuff they sold probably seemed pointless to a 10 year old me but useful to the normal 'grown up' I was interested in the Pokemon cards they sold at the counter though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 Woolworths are still in business in other parts of the world, they are big in Australia,they own Hotels, filling stations etc. That's true but the Australian Woolworths Limited who own the national chain of supermarkets and Big W department stores are not connected at all to the UK/US F H Woolworths company. They are a totally different company and different operation. It seems that the Woolworths we know never registered their trading name in Australia decades ago and so someone else took it. Similarly the South Africa named Woolworth stores (which are actually more like an M&S) and petrol stations are the same thing. A totally separate company who just stole the name because of a legal loophole. Really, these companies that remain around the world are not proper Woolworths and are totally different to the failed model we had over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TORONTONY Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 An interesting article date November 2008 "When Woolworths first flung open its doors in New York in 1879, it was the Victorian equivalent of the £1 shop, selling everything from stationery to dish cloths for just five cents" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/nov/19/woolworths-retail-department-stores Yes, they were the original "five and dime" stores ,referred to in so many old American films. ---------- Post added 26-04-2017 at 16:44 ---------- Wonder if they would market Embassy CD's, you know a modern version of the crap records they sold with no name artists singing hit songs at a half crown cheaper than the real thing LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 They failed because they tried going up market. I think they rested on their laurels while Wilko (an obvious play on Woolco) and Home Bargains and B&M sneaked in and took their business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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