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Founded in 1924, Woolworths is currently Australia's largest supermarket chain with a market share of 32.5% as of 2023. [2] Woolworths specialises in groceries (vegetables, fruit, meat, packaged foods, etc.), but also sells magazines, DVDs, health and beauty products, household products, pet and baby supplies, and stationery.
Divisions and namesakes of the American F. W. Woolworth Company, and divisions of Woolworths Group (Australia).. Similar namesake companies in South Africa and Australia were legally named after the Woolworth company as permitted by the trademark laws of the period, but never had any financial connection to the original F. W. Woolworth Company.
Woolworths Liquor – Liquor department or really segregated shop of a Woolworths supermarket stores. They were not located in South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania, as State law there prohibited liquor sales at supermarkets and were formerly known as "Mac's Liquor". In 2012, 'Woolworths Liquor' were rebranded as BWS although some signage ...
In the same deal, the company also acquired 22 Action supermarket stores in Western Australia, [29] bringing the total number of Woolworths supermarkets in Australia to near 750. In 2006, Woolworths announced that it had taken a 10 percent strategic stake in The Warehouse Group in New Zealand [ 30 ] and announced a joint venture with the Tata ...
As of 2023, this is a list of supermarket chains, past and present, which operate or have branches in more than one country, whether under the parent corporation's name or another name. For supermarkets that are only in one country, see the breakdown by continent at the bottom of this page.
The similarly named Woolworths supermarkets in Australia and New Zealand are operated by Australia's largest retail company, Woolworths Group, a separate company with no historical links to the F. W. Woolworth Company or Foot Locker, Inc.; it did, however, take the name from the original company, as it had not been registered or trademarked in ...
Woolworths Metro, styled as simply Metro, is a subsidiary chain of small retail stores owned and operated by Woolworths Supermarkets in Australia. Metro specialises in "grab and go" food, ready made meals , beverages and other goods, as well as a range of in-demand local and imported products.
Woolworths launched Thomas Dux, an upmarket grocery store, in April 2008 with the first store in the Sydney suburb of Lane Cove followed by another in Paddington. [2]In May 2009, Woolworths announced the acquisition of eight boutique grocery store leases in Crows Nest, Hornsby and Mona Vale in Sydney, and Armadale, Black Rock, Glen Waverley, Port Melbourne and Richmond in Melbourne from Macro ...