So why is retail opening then? If the govt paid weeks ago many would simply still remain open and turn all stores into an online order click & collect facility.
Itâs all abit quiet on the Myer front. I expect the whole point of the closure was to renegotiate/exit leases. Possibly going into VA next if they have no luck I guess.
Myer probably needs to go into VA, and someone to buy it , to turn it into a Online and 25 store major CBD/Mall operation. Like Virgin, use VA to strip out as many costs as possible (ie lease). I assume thatâs the plan underway at the moment. Donât have much cash sitting there. Could be as low as $30-50m now.
Now THAT is actually quite a good take on the old Home Brand branding.
The Jannali Flemings is an interesting little shop. Tiny for a full supermarket, which I suppose was the norm for inner-city main street supermarkets back in the day. Itâs extremely narrow and long.
Iâd read that they were going to remove the Flemings signage and place it in their âheritage centreâ in their Bella Vista HQ.
Itâs kind of heartening to see that Woolworths actually do have a heritage centre for people to explore, but on the flipside I would have liked to have seen them keep at least one store in Flemings branding as a time capsule forever.
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It was nothing like an old Flemings inside. It was all Woolworths style branding inside and had been for many years.
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The SMH, 14 May 1987. Itâs taken Woolworths thirty-three years to fulfill their plan to retire the Flemings name.
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You know, you donât want to rush into these things! 
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Not a surprise. This is the same Woolworths where about half of its Big W locations still have a 2 generations old logo, and the same Woolworths that continued to operate Dick Smith & Tandy stores that were untouched with original logos since the Late 70s / Early 80s. Itâs clearly tradition! 
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Ironically, I think Flemings has actually outlived Clancyâs and even Food For Less, which went the way of history either last year or the year before.
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And Shoeys, or maybe that was just a Newcastle thing?
(also Bi-Lo too).
Look at how long it took Woolworths to retire the Safeway name.
(I still think that was a bad idea.)
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Yes Bigw has a large variety of shopfronts, fonts, logos. Looks like too many people experimenting with logos over the years. Kmart has had the one logo from memory. Target changed their font.
In fact, their current logo appears to be the original one from the 80s.
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I actually quite like all of those Big W logos.
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Has anyone come across a BIG W store with the new signage, logo and branding? I havenât seen any yet and am interested in how the store looks. I couldnât imagine it looking any different to a store with 80s branding still intact.
Edit: Have found a picture of the store in Katoomba sporting the new look, at least on the exterior:
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BIGW really could have done the Kmart thing and gone really cheap, it has the right name/look/style. Itâs always been a cheaper brand too.
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We had a long narrow two aisle Nancarrows near us in East Bentleigh, that branding was removed around that time except for the engraved name on the trolley handles. Donât think it became a Food for Less, think at one point it was a Firework.
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That Big W on the bottom picture looks familiar, it could be the Mt Gambier SA store.
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It is, it mentions Limestone Coast on the ac care banner.
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Howâs that rebranding for Westfield Booragoon going? A few media outlets still referring to it as Garden City when they reported on Myer and Apple re-opening their stores recently.
An iconic name which will take a long time to disappear.
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