Supermarkets and Retail

[HoneyFlix]

Some Woolies news:

Woolworths CEO reveals they’ve sold 360,000 of these four surprise items

Woolworths announces huge change for fruit and veggies

[JBar]

@HoneyFlix

Woolworths CEO reveals they’ve sold 360,000 of these four surprise items)
Hint: it’s not food! These items are selling out at Woolworths stores across Australia - and with very good reason.

You should be banned for posting clickbait.

Hint: Any headline followed by a “Hint”, is clickbait.

[Moe]

@Bort

The Anko stores in the US (which are being closed down) were apparently a trial run for the smaller format Kmarts that will be taking over some Target Country sites.

Surely you’d want to distinguish them somewhat - calling the small format stores ‘anko by Kmart’ or something.

Otherwise you get into a mess with catalogue items of having to asterisk off 30 different items at a bunch of random stores - rather than a simple “excluding Anko stores” the same as the ‘Excludes Target Country’ line appears in just about every Target T&C line.

[Bort]

I think the indication was that they’d use Kmart Hub for the small format stores. Hopefully that’s a placeholder while they decide on a half decent name.

[littlegezzybear]

Yeah, they are not ‘surprise items’ as Woolworths and Coles sell them every year.

[mubd]

Kmart has stopped selling fishing licences due to the pandemic according to their website.

Interesting because I thought they would have stopped selling those years ago with the streamlining of their services. I guess it’s just a convenient excuse to get rid of it without causing too much fuss.

I remember buying a fishing licence from Kmart in North Rocks a very long time ago.

[Squee]

Guessing it’s some sort of residual arrangement they had with the NSW government that just never got cancelled (until now).

[nickatnights]

Is it just me or did the print run of 100 million bags have an error? Is that a tadpole in the middle of the green “W”?

[littlegezzybear]

I found this on Twitter. If it’s a mistake it’s a little more widespread.

Buducci Mane (Budulnya)

[nickatnights]

Why would Woolworths make such a small change when you consider its only been a few years since the rolled out the new signs on every single supermarket?

What is the point of this little tweak? Is green paint in short supply?

[DDN]

It’s just a flat version of their logo, nothing new

[JBar]

Yes. The shadow in the 3D effect.

[nickatnights]

Thank you JBar - I can now see that it’s meant to be a shadow of the “W” twisting.

Now I wonder when this first appeared and how much the consultant was paid that added it. Is it on any of their neon signs yet?

[DDN]

Speaking of logos, Kmart has recently lodged a trademark for this, I really like this K style

[foxyrover]

No

[JasonF]

yes i quite like it

[mubd]

[mubd]

[mubd]

Also interesting in the IP Australia trademarks site is that Kmart Australia actually has the ‘new’ US Kmart logos trademarked.

[Squee]

Likely this would have been transferred from when they bought the naming rights outright from Sears in the US a few years ago.