That’s what I noticed too, what’s the bet they just don’t have any stock of that one now. Better call the ACCC for false advertising now.
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Those department signs have been updated though.
I’m surprised they don’t still have Mario’s Meats and Mr Pickwick’s Bakery!
Does it still carry Safeway branding,
[/quote] All Safeways branding has been removed but saying that they now have little Woolworth branding. The store is large and they use to have isles of clothing and back then they were using some Woolworths branding and is why I use to connected Woolworths as being a Safeways with isles of clothing. The clothing isles got removed and was replace more or less with promotional toilet paper lining the outside walls.
Sorry for the image quality but they were using these ones
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Kinda cool actually to still see that style around. The old Lara Safeway until last year looked similar but it was demolished and a new Woolworths was built in its place.
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Last time I visited a Food for Less supermarket, they were still using those aisle signs, and the same checkout style as in the Kerang photos above (though painted grey rather than green).
Classic Early 90s design right there - looks like they’ve upgraded the freezers though at some stage, since they have doors and aren’t open air. From djpower’s post, sounds like it was an old Woolworths Variety Store that barely got an upgrade. Very surprised they still have those old over-head aisle signs, all the still to be renovated Woolies here in Perth got rid of them years ago and either have nothing or one of the newer styles.
Thanks for the photos. Can’t believe Woolworths neglected that store for so long.
I had forgotten Woolworths had those “variety” stores that sold things other than just food and grocery products. On reflection I can recall an electronics counter in the store I grew up near. A kid I went to primary school with acquired a shiny, new Walkman, that had been on display on the glass cabinet, by hiding it in a brown paper bag under a kilo of sausages his mum had sent him to buy from the butcher.
any more info on the variety stores? I don’t remember them.
I don’t recall Woolworths as such, although I do vaguely recall we had a Coles variety store in our shopping strip. Was probably a small scale version of what we now have as K Mart or Target. The store was made redundant when a new Coles supermarket opened up in a new shopping centre nearby but it was a larger format supermarket that did have a section for ‘variety’ items like clothing etc.
which some coles now have again
They pretty much sold everything, at least the Woolworths and Coles (it had G. J. Coles & Coy in, I think, chunky raised gold lettering on a red background) where I lived did. Sort of like Target Country mixed with The Reject Shop is the closest I can think of.
Woolworths Town Hall in Sydney is the only store I know that still sells non-supermarket type goods.
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The original Woolworths and Coles were known as Variety Stores. Big W and K Mart took over on a larger scale as Discount Stores.
Coles are putting security tags on shrink wrapped packets of meat.
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Need that in our Woolies. The amount we have stolen…
Looks like America have decided to steal from us. 
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Ha, that reminds me of the time that a small town local FOX affiliate in the US decided to borrow the concept of (our) Nine News’ “Everywhere” promos from 2011!
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The guy who used to run Coles now runs BI-LO in the US.
Our versions are SO much better though.
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of course ours are, we got Status Quo!
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Some before and after photos of Holly’s being removed from a Kmart store. Apologies for the ordinary photos but you get the idea!
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Looks like the rest of the store hadn’t been touched since opening either