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The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store.It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, setting trends and creating the modern retail model that stores follow worldwide today.
Woolworths Food Range – Woolworths' most populous own brand range, it features food lines in all categories across the store. Products in this range feature a green and white logo. Customer can become part of a food sampling group called "Bunch" in order to test foods within this range and provide feedback to make improvements. [43]
One of the founding investors was Preston Lanchester Gowing, the then chairman of the department store chain Gowings. [4] The name on the draft prospectus drawn up by Cecil Scott Waine was "Walworth's Bazaar" – a play on the name of F.W. Woolworth, the owner of the Woolworth's chain in the United States and United Kingdom. [5]
Woolco was an American-based discount retail chain. It was founded in 1962 in Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W. Woolworth Company.It was a full-line discount department store unlike the five-and-dime Woolworth stores which operated at the time.
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 Group (Australia), the largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand; named after the American F.W. Woolworth company, but unrelated; Woolworths Supermarkets, a chain of supermarkets in Australia owned by Woolworths Group Australia; Woolworths New Zealand, the New Zealand arm of Woolworths Group Australia
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Woolworths did not generally follow the trend started in the 1980s of opening shops at out-of-town relocations. One of its few out-of-town shops opened at Dudley's Merry Hill Shopping Centre in 1989, but this closed within a few years due to disappointing trade. Woolworths became well known for its "pick 'n' mix" sweet selections.