The retailer will permanently close its separate men’s store in July and consolidate into one building, halving its footprint in the CBD.
Also covered on 10 News First Melbourne today.
https://twitter.com/10NewsFirstMelb/status/1519576854021259264
Has been part of most new builds for about 12 months now.
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Looks like DJs is totally abandoning Food Halls across the board, let alone food as a category altogether going forward. Cringe at the thought of how many hundreds of millions of dollars they pissed away on trying to expand within that category in the past decade with so little to show for it.
It’s a pity the David Jones food hall always had a good selection of foods. While the expansion to the BP service stations were never going to work they could have kept the existing food halls in the actual David Jones stores.
A shame that the short lived BP-David Jones Food co-branded servos didn’t take off either, considering the expenses they’ve put into refurbing/rebranding and marketing the co-branded BP sites.
Labour Day public holiday in Queensland tomorrow. With most retail closed, there’s always the Airport Woolworths for that last minute toilet paper purchase.
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Surprising that QLD still closes all retail on state specific public holidays like Labour Day, don’t think there’s any other states that are still doing that (not even WA or SA).
I think its because it’s labour day holiday that most stores are closed its not usually the case with other holidays like Queen’s Birthday, Australia Day etc
WA’s first Chevron supplied, Caltex branded Location (and first OTR location in WA) opened in Roleystone in the last couple weeks, replacing an Existing Better Choice branded service station.
The images within this google listing indicates the RAC 4cpl discount that applies at existing Puma Locations will continue to apply with the rebranding to Caltex.
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The largest Lego Certified Store in the southern hemisphere, officially opened yesterday (Saturday).
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Branding around Fuel in this country is now very confusing, I am very far lost when it comes to who owns what, and who supplies who, who leases to someone else and so on. Its like a giant tangled web with these guys (EG, Caltex, Woolworths, Ampol, Chevron…oh Puma is owned by Chevron now)
Coles/Shell I get. Pretty simple branding deal. The rest are a dogs breakfast.
I thought that was a Puma?
That might be the only Caltex OTR. The one on Manning Road in Como and Hale Road Forrestfield will both sell BP fuel.
The South Australian chains are keen on WA, X Convenience has two stores already.
Elsewhere, the construction of a 2nd Costco store in Perth at Casuarina just off Kwinana Freeway seems to be going very slow. I’m guessing it’s because of Covid related disruptions. The official ceremony of the first sod being turned was back in October.
Pretty obvious from the Google listing I linked that it’s not since it has several pictures of the site - likely that it was originally intended to be of course.
My question was meant to be, wasn’t it originally a Puma up until this year?
It was Puma in March 2021 according to Google. It hasn’t been Better Choice for quite a few years.
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Also to mention Chevron (parent company) and Puma (subsidiary) are separate companies since the ‘divorce’/licensing agreement with Ampol ended back in 2020.
What’s also confusing is the Woolworths/EDR branding at Ampol, combined with the EG owned Petrol Stations (formerly Woolworths Caltex)
All Ampol owned and operated locations (650+) accept the EDR for points collection, but around 216 of those locations also accept the Woolworths 4c fuel discount redemption. Those locations can either be Foodary or “Woolworths Metro(go)” branded.
Then there’s also the small handful of stand-alone EG locations in Victoria which has nothing to do with Woolworths and Ampol.
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You can add to the confusion that some United stations in Victoria seem to be getting a rebrand to Astron.
(And also, United Petrol owns the Pie Face franchise)
Absolutely
On one road near me we have a BP, 7/11 Mobil, Woolworths Caltex, Shell Coles, Puma, Ampol, Shell Nightowl, United, Liberty and Vibe.
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OTR/Hungry Jacks Hamilton Vic is Caltex as well
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The convenience fuel competition in WA has definitely heated up.
Entering since 2014 are 7 Eleven, NightOwl, X Convenience and now OTR.
You’ve also got WA owned Vibe expanding and working with IGA xPress on some sites.
We have a few of the Shell Nightowl outlets in the Outer Metro (Brisbane) and Regional Queensland areas.
Liberty is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell. A number of non-Coles Shell outlets in my area were recently converted to Liberty of late.