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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 ...
In 1957, Woolworths began to diversify from variety retailing when it opened its first food store at Dee Why, Sydney. [8] The company further diversified in 1960, opening it first purpose-built supermarket at Warrawong, [9] purchasing the Rockmans chain of women's clothing stores [10] and commencing selling liquor at some outlets.
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.
The two main supermarket operators, Woolworths and Coles, generally trade between 6 am and midnight every day, although some inner-city shops in Sydney and Melbourne operate twenty-four hours. In Canberra, stores such as Woolworths Kmart and Coles were open 24/7; however during the Covid-19 pandemic store closures, these stores did not reopen ...
[4] [5] At its opening, the centre provided over 11,600 m 2 (125,000 sq ft) of floor space dedicated to two anchor tenants, a Woolworths supermarket and a Big W discount department store. In addition, the centre contained 37 smaller speciality retailers, three kiosks and 850 parking spaces.
The centre had branches of the Moores department store and McEwans hardware store chains. [24] Moores had 8,000 customers on that first day. TV personality Graham Kennedy attended the opening of Australia's first Safeway (now Woolworths ) supermarket, which had 12 checkout points and a staff of more than 50 assistants.
In 1994, Woolworths Limited purchased two-thirds of the former Sunshine Harvester Works site for $10 million, and submitted plans to build a $70 million shopping complex containing a Big W department store, Woolworths supermarket, cinemas, and around 50 shops. [2]
Big W (stylised as BIG W) is an Australian chain of discount department stores, which was founded in regional New South Wales in 1964. The company is a division of the Woolworths Group and as of 2024 operated 179 stores, [1] with around 18,000 employees across mainland Australia and Tasmania.