The “New World” part of the name also sounded like something from the 1960s, so you can probably understand why it was ditched in the early 1990s (although the “orb” logo which kind of symbolised “New World” remained in use by Coles around the Early-Mid 2000s until they adopted the tick and more recently, nothing)!
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The “New World” name was introduced in 1962 and was phased out in 1991.
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The Coles store at The Glen, which is currently being renovated, falls in the Format B category.
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Definitely Coles, Coles New World sounds like it belongs in the 1980’s.
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Probably why they phased it out in the 90’s.
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Coles however are way overdue for a visual refresh, with some elements dating back to 2007/08. The Red/White/Yellow colour scheme has long lived past its use by date.
dude we get it you like the Coles New World name, you mention it every couple months!
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More like 60s or 70s.
ok ok i’ll stop.
Obviously the main mistake Coles made was getting rid of the orb.
I’m surprised they are rolling out more of the Coles Local format - the Surrey Hills store seemed to have an extremely strange lineup of products available. I’m almost certainly not their target market - but there were things that most Coles Express stores stock that they didn’t have.
I certainly don’t understand why you’d choose to go there over travelling slightly further to one of the full line Woolworths stores with the new Deli area, which have just as much fancy produce lines, but also far more grocery lines so you can actually complete a shop. If their only edge is a nice deli/bakery - people will just go to a nice deli/bakery directly.
It just feels like they are doing what Woolworths failed to do with the Thomas Dux brand.
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Coles does not really have a logo. They have a font and forgot to hit the “caps lock” button.
I have always laughed at the nicknames people have for their local shopping centres. Sydney’s Surry Hills Shopping Centre on Cleveland St is actually in Redfern. It has a Coles, Liquorland and about twenty specialty shops. It’s a dump. Most of my neighbours and friends refer to it as “Crack Central”. They have called it this for decades. It’s second nature to say “I am just going to run down to Crack Central”.
There is always something happening at Crack Central. The Liquorland has a sign up stating that they don’t sell cask wine until 11am. Now that’s class.
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That reminds me of an incident at my local Woolies. The manager of the attached BWS had enough, so he printed a bunch of A4 posters with something along the lines of “Customers attempting to pay with soiled cash from their underwear will be refused service”. It really made me proud to call myself a local. The signs eventually came down thanks to social media outrage.
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Pretty accurate name for the place, but I’m pretty sure the more common name for it is the ‘murder mall’. In fact, if you Google the term “murder mall” it comes up with several results for Surry Hills Shopping Centre on the first page.
It really is a shocking dump for an area that’s been so gentrified over the years. I guess the local Housing Commission residents from the nearby tower blocks are still going there stuffing the scotch fillets down their trackies.
As featured in this doco (at around 13:00):
I live just around the corner from one of the Coles concept stores at Westfield Eastgardens (where there’s lots of ready to eat options and Uber Eats delivery service). I reckon the ready to eat section is pretty good…but some of the options on offer are just plain weird.
They have a patisserie sort of thing in the rear of the store which offers some of the most expensive bakery items I’ve ever seen. They’ve got $50 frozen cakes and $12 dessert thingos like strawberry mousse tarts from some fancy branded bakery (these would be about the same size as a standard lamington). Last time I saw, they weren’t moving many of those. They also have that fancy cheese room, which is a bizarre thing IMO. I didn’t see many people looking into there, either.
Oh yeah, they also have some fancy donuts individually sold in plastic boxes. Unfortunately it appears that they disintegrate at room temperature, so the things always disappoint when you get them out of the container and half the icing falls off.
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Sounds like they’re not getting the point or trying to replicate similar setups in high-end grocery stores but failing with inferior ingredients. The best IGAs in Perth have a very similar sounding patisserie cabinet as part of their Deli setup but the items are always fresh / from reputable suppliers and aren’t that excessively overpriced.
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Thanks mubd
I googled “murder mall” and I cannot believe there are planning on demolishing Crack Central / Murder Mall after it was sold for $100M. I am going to miss its dagginess and post apocalyptic feel. I will miss the toilets with the brightest blue lights I have ever seen. I will miss the cafe with the huge refrigerated display that always had five old cakes sitting there and ageing. I will miss watching people slipping beef sausages down their pants in Coles. Ahh…the memories.
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Well, when I say ‘frozen cakes’, I mean…the cakes are literally presented in a freezer for you to put in your trolley.
They look pretty nice IMO, but I think it might be a better buy just to go to the Cheesecake Shop and get one of the cakes on display.
The other pastries actually do look like they were made fresh (albeit off-site). I’d estimate they probably throw out 90% of the stock at night, they just don’t seem to be moving much of them.
I’m surprised that it ac. I’ve been inside only once or twice ever, but the heritage facade exterior from Cleveland Street always led me to think that it was a more recent development (even though when I last went in the early 2010s it clearly had a very very old vibe inside). It actually was built in 1982 and was called ‘Redfern Mall’ until the early 1990s when it was renamed ‘Surry Hills Shopping Village’.
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Woolworths Gregory Hills has new colour E-ink price tags under test in the drinks/bikkie aisles. Woolworths Schofield’s also had black and white E-ink tags from its opening in 2016 for about a year, but they reverted back to old paper price tags.
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I’ve always thought it would be pretty cool if in the future there would be no need for paper price tickets and that all data strippings were digital displays.
Didn’t realise this technology existed already.
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It has existed for years. Kmart did a trial some 20 odd years ago, they ran off the fluoro tubes on the ceiling. I recently went overseas and even the budget supermarkets had them. And I know of an Officeworks store that is trialing them too.
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Yes, it would be a no brainer to have digital price tags these days.
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