I thought that the 2009-10 slogan (prior to the introduction of red hands and all the rest to the branding) was “It All Counts” or something like that, along with the stacked up coins in the TV ads of the time.
Yep it’s “It All Counts”, I tried remembering it on the top of my head. 
Advantage (Now Woolworths) in Joondalup used to have a playground when they opened in the 90’s. Sisters IGA is more or less the new “Advantage”. That was a short lived supermarket brand in WA. I can only remember them having 4 stores, Rockingham, Subiaco, Waikiki and Joondalup.
Woolworths Ballarat Central store is looking extremely tired and dated. It is a bit hard to see but the first photo is of a sticker stating what product type was to go onto the clipstrip, had an '04 date on it. No self-serves, although there was plenty of checkouts marked “express”. (red signage at the rear of the 2nd photo)
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Even though the sticker was first written on in 2004, it’s likely to be from a little earlier than that since there’s the Early 2000’s “Bringing Food to Life” slogan underneath the logo which I’m pretty sure would’ve been completely dropped from Woolworths’ general branding by 2003.
Potentially one of the last that was renovated before they changed to newer format stores in 2007 or so? The checkout assembly, especially the lights are ones you only saw in stores refurbished towards the end of that store format’s life. Nonetheless apart from that it looks almost identical to how it did 20 years ago as a child (back then it was 24 hours too).
I work at a Woolies, in the backroom area there’s an internal poster dating from 2001 which still has the Roelf Vos and Purity logos on it.
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Before the refit of the Woolies in Campbell Street, Hobart, the Woolies sign out the front was fading so much that the old Purity sign was showing through more than the Woolies over the top.
I heard someone the other day call it Roelf Vos, I’m not sure who was more shocked, me or them. They’d probably just bought a new couch from Loughrans or some clothes from Fitz Geralds so we’ll let it slide.
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I was always curious as to the pronunciation of “Roelf”. Is it the same as Rolf?
Also, as a mainlander, my Everyday Rewards card was not accepted at POS when I presented it at a Tassie store. Any reason as to why?
I believe they have their own reward program specific to Tasmania which is a hangover of the old days.
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So is Woolworths at Blackburn North Shopping Centre. The sign might have changed last year but there has been no renovation done for at least a decade.
Quite visible on Google Street View
I first saw Roelf Vos/Purity mentioned along with Woolworths/Safeway on a reusable shopping bag - which I’d be certain was far newer than when they changed over.
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Yep, Rolf Vos.
Yep, Tassie has had a much better scheme in place since the beginning of time with the Frequent Shopper Club where you can get a lot more value and would nearly be suicide phasing that one out. It’s been talked about in the past and has also been used to try and improve the various incarnations of rewards schemes which Woollies has had over the years. My wife works at a store and cops abuse every time she has to tell a mainlander that there’s a different scheme here.
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My wife works at a store and cops abuse every time she has to tell a mainlander that there’s a different scheme here.
[/quote] You would think that woolies would still allow the Woolworths Rewards to be scanned in Tassie seeings that it is a lesser value program. The computer should be able to recognise the difference unless they use the same barcode scheme which will then make it impossible.
Coles to introduce new technology to reduce theft at self service checkouts
SUPERMARKET giant Coles is considering introducing new technology to reduce its estimated annual $1.1 billion theft debt by reducing stealing at self-serve checkouts.
Retail sources have told news.com.au that Coles is looking at machine scanners that can more cleverly identify specific fruit and vegetables by a combination of weight and image recognition.
The “swipe everything as carrots” mentality was prevalent among young customers, who confessed to supermarket research body Canstar Blue that they had ripped off supermarkets at the self-serve.
They should also check some of those shonky scanners that they’ve installed lately in self-serve which don’t scan properly. They aren’t very loud either so in a busy supermarket you don’t know whether you have scanned something or not.
Just noticed on a recent shopping trip that I had bought 10 items but my receipt showed that only 8 had been scanned.
Only noticed when I got got home.
I nearly flogged a bottle of Coke at lunchtime accidentally. Had just been on the phone and frustrated with people and scanned all my items and paid and then realised I still had a Coke sitting there which I was about to just grab and walk out but thought I’d better check my receipt. Sure enough, no Coke on there so did a new transaction. When I turned around the lady was hovering around me so I must have raised suspicions. Nothing intentional, just soaking wet, peed off and hungry and not thinking!
I’ve seen people put a bag of fruit or veges laying mostly off the scanner/scale so it records the weight as less than it actually is.
Coles Self Serve seems to have introduced a user-controllable volume button recently, and it seems most often it’s turned right down… only noticed it when I heard absolutely nothing when scanning items through.
I can deal with that. No more “If you have a flybuys please scan it now” on repeat making you want to pull the plug on the whole thing. 