A couple of days ago I only bought a bottle of water from Woolworths with cash, it automatically spat out a receipt rather than asking if I wanted one, but I was surprised by how short the receipt was - it just had the water purchase on it, there were no promos for wine at BWS or anything else.
Why wouldn’t you take a receipt?
I got a free pizza and 1/2 a six pack of beer the other day from a BWS docket.
A three pack? 
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Oops, I meant half price for a six pack.
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Pumpkin Patch has been saved from total closure at the 11th hour, bought by the owner of CatchOfTheDay.
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Northland Shopping Centre gets “Northlands” or given the demographic of that area… “Norflands” or “Norflandsmate”
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Credit Suisse analyst Grant Saligari said earlier this week that Wesfarmers should sell Kmart and revive Target. I think it should sell Target instead.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/sell-kmart-to-revive-target-warns-analyst-20170323-gv4mv3.html
and officeworks is for sale. didn’t know that.
A successful Target would be higher margin than Kmart - which by necessity would only be successful by winning a damaging price war.
Target has been ruined already with Guy Russo making it look cheaper and empty.
The new one in Waurn Ponds, VIC looks very nice. Looks very stylish inside, the layout copied from Kmart a bit but I really like Target, their products are of decent quality for a mainstream department store.
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I now officially avoid Coles supermarkets. I wear reading glasses but have perfect long distance vision. I thus don’t carry my glasses with me.
I can’t read the new Coles automated checkouts.
The people who designed these machines either had 20/20 short distance vision or wear glasses in their every waking hour.
I now avoid Coles and don’t play Keno (as I can’t read the printout).
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I don’t play Keno, well not for about eight years, as it is easily addictive and a way to lose a lot of money.
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The people who make these changes don’t test them out on the general public.
Something similar happened with the train indicator screens in Sydney. For what must be a couple of decades they had dark blue screens with white print, which you could see down the whole platform. When they rebranded recently they changed it to white screens with black print. The screens are old and many look grey or yellow. Impossible to read unless you’re standing right under them.
And then there’s the rebrand of signs from white print on blues (which you can read from space) to white print on orange which on a sunny day just blends in. People get paid a lot of money for these rebrands even when they are an epic fail.
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Solomon Lew confirmed he had acquired a 10.8 per cent strategic stake in Myer for $101 million through his listed investment company, Premier Investments, but isn’t currently planning on making a full takeover offer. Lew was a Coles Myer board member for 20 years and his family is one of Myer’s single largest suppliers through wholesaler Voyager Distribution, which supplies branded and private label goods.
http://www.afr.com/business/retail/solomon-lews-premier-investments-confirms-108-pc-stake-in-myer-20170328-gv8m8h
Years ago the supermarket in Summer Hill (Sydney’s inner west) was a Half Case. Then it was a Franklins. The past few years it has been a Romeos IGA. It was a rundown store that was very third world.
It has been refurbished in the past six months. It is now stunning.
It also has double the customers (that’s my anecdotal evidence).
I miss Franklins.
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I saw a Dewson’s trolley at my local IGA not too long ago, and a building somewhere in Perth still has a Dewson’s painted logo, albeit faded!
I too miss the days of many independent supermarkets like Action. I remember their last ad in 2004 with the introduction of the “Means a Great Deal” slogan. Following year I went to my local Action to see it was converted into a Supa IGA, but looks very much the same, but I’ve heard the store was bought out, and changes may be happening soon.
I miss Flemings. Not really.
They were Fabulous.
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