The Wollongong/Shellharbour area is very interesting, 3 Targets, 2 Big Ws and 2 Kmarts. The only area with more Targets than Kmarts and its in those two LGAs alone.
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Kmart is apparently back to selling large appliances with Anko branded dishwashers, fridges, washing machines, etc.
Itâs been so long since they last sold them that the intern at Yahoo who wrote this gushing dross seems to think that this is a brand new concept for Kmart:
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Target and Kmart have three stores each. Belconnen and Tuggeranong have both, third Target is in the City, third Kmart is at Gungahlin.
For a long time there was only one Big W (Woden, from memory opened late 70s). The other four opened in the 2000s.
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I grew up just outside Canberra to the north and yes the only Big W was in Woden. I remember going there with my parents for back to school supplies. I think it was before Officeworks existed at least in Canberra.
They opened a lot of new stores in the mid 2000s. Like Parkes NSW and many of the other Canberra stores and also elsewhere.
I remember shopping at a Target in Tuggeranong. Is that now the Bigw?
While there was only 1-2 Big W Stores across ACT, There was 3 Ventures Stores years ago including Woden (Where Big W also had and still operates there), Belconnen and Canberra CBD.
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No. Big W took the top floor of the old Myer.
Apparently Target Warrawong is being replaced by Woolworths soon.
Newcastle-Hunter:
4 Targets (Charlestown, Kotara, Glendale, Cessnock)
6 Kmarts (Kotara, Glendale, Waratah, Green Hills, Maitland CBD, Salamander Bay)
7 Big Ws (Marketown, Charlestown, Mount Hutton, Jesmond, Green Hills, Cessnock, Raymond Terrace)
Central Coast:
2 Targets (Tuggerah and Erina)
4 Kmarts (Lake Haven, Bateau Bay, Erina and Woy Woy)
2 Big Ws (Erina and Tuggerah)
Sunshine Coast:
1 Target (Maroochydore)
3 Kmarts (Caloundra, Maroochydore and Noosa K-Hub)
4 Big Ws (Kawana, Maroochydore, Noosa and Nambour)
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That seems really odd, How often do the general department stores get replaced by a Supermarket?
There was rumours last year that Aldi at Broadmeadows Central will be moving inside to the former BigW store at the centre.
Currently Aldi is located outside of the centre.
I canât confirm nor deny if the move has occurred yet.
There is one like that at Phoenix Park in Spearwood. Where its located used to be a Centrelink office.
Would have to be a desperate landlord, or clever landlord perhaps considering others donât budge or negotiate and they sit empty for years. Department store leases are typically double the standard supermarket and can be anywhere from 2-3x too big.
Coles took over the Bigw at Chullora. You can really notice that also, so much floor space. Probably too big however If they got a good deal who cares.
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The footprint of these stores make them hard to re-lease, especially if they are unable (or the owner is unwilling) to be reconfigured for smaller stores - so in some respects attracting a supermarket into the space makes some sense, theyâre the next largest store that youâd find in a shopping centre, but they are also likely to be swimming in unused space (something that the supermarkets arenât the biggest fans of)
Often seen the spaces turned into space for heaps of specialty stores, but you need the demand for them too
The site was once a Kmart, but was replaced by Target and a Rebel Sport. The Target is not large, itâs probably is around the size of a regular Woolworths. The space is a square though, so the Woolworths layout will be odd.
For a lot of centres, they donât really have another choice but it often results in some sub-optimal and costly remodelling results (especially where theyâre trying to reconfigure spaces that have been designed to support a single store, you see this a lot with sub-regional sized centres where theyâre designed around the requirements of their anchor tenants)
âModernâ shopping centres tend to have a more flexible floor plan, that allows them to more easily divide or consolidate shop spaces to accommodate need and demand.
Thereâs 4 Kmarts on the Sunshine Coast as thereâs a Khub at Beerwah
It always struck me as odd that they replaced the Kmart with a Target when there was a Big W in the same centre. I wouldâve thought Big W and Target were too samey to compete in a small suburban complex like that. Kmart seemed to be a better fit for the area, had been in Warrawong since the early '70âs (first across the road where Bunnings was before moving into the centre when it was gutted in the late '80s) and is by far the more popular brand among budget conscious shoppers.
I recall they removed the Woolworths from that Warrawong centre because it occupied a small, oddly shaped space that needed to be substantially reconfigured before Aldi moved in. Surely theyâll have a similar problem in the Target location, unless they intend to remove or relocate Rebel.
Havenât been in that centre for yonks. Did they lose many tenants as a result of Covid?
Here is another one with BIGW who exited at Calamvale, 7000 square meters. They are transforming it into a food court sort of precinct.
These sort of issues went down with the Masters closure also. Sites way too big, could only bulldoze or sub lease portions out.