IIRC, part of the sale to metcash also included the sale of certain stores to Woolworths. Action at Southlands Boulevade was also the same.
I only ever went to Southlands as a kid for the Hoyts Cinema so I never ventured into the actual shopping centre downstairs.
In the north, Morley is in desperate need for development, hope that the planning can resume in the next 12-18 months. Also, I hope to see more DJs stores open up over here in the west as I cannot see Myer opening up stores anymore around the nation.
Mr Noone said the aspirational locations include Hobart, north Sydney, south Sydney, Wollongong, north Perth, south Adelaide and Geelong.
I recall is a large block of land in Wayne Ponds next to the shopping centre which would be a good contender for the Geelong site. I assume nobody has built on it since I last drove past many years ago.
Yes that land in Waurn Ponds is still there, only occupied by the occasional circus, carnival and car parking leading up to Christmas
From memory Action was split up between Woolies and Metcash. Similar to Franklins where the majors picked up the locations they wanted and most of the rest went to IGA (and FAL/Action, funnily enough)
Just Kambah left now I think.
Interesting they’d consider Hobart considering its population, isolation and socioeconomic mix.
The rest of the markets they’re looking at make sense.
I would go for a second store in Perth or even out in Wyndham area (Vic), vs Hobart.
Woolworths is also increasing the price of its branded milk. From tomorrow (Friday) Woolworths one litre branded milk will cost $1.60, two litres will cost $3.10 and three litres will sell for $4.50.
Noticed a few others today.
Woolworths branded Eggs have gone up again. $4.50 Large, $5 XL.
Chobani is now up again to $2.50 a pot. Was $1.70, then 2.20.
At the moment when something is on promo I am buying up heavy amounts that will last a month or longer. Then try and catch the same promo again in like a month and rinse/repeat.
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Target in Dandenong in Victoria has already closed on July 9 and the same thing will be occurring in St Marys in New South Wales within the next 6 months. Now you would think that Greensborough in Victoria may be downsizing (One of the floors replaced by Big W) and over here in Western Australia, the axe may fall on the Armadale store.
Liquorland at The Glen shopping centre closed its doors on July 10, with customers directed to the Vermont South store. The Glen’s Liquorland was a small store next to Coles, and had a much smaller range than arch-rival Dan Murphy’s megastore near Glen Waverley railway station, and also BWS at Mountain View Hotel north of the shopping centre.
Shell Fresh Trading Co on Great Eastern Highway near Perth Airport has rebranded to Atlas Fuel.
United is opening a site at Perth Airport on the way to T1. It will be the first service station at the airport since Shell had a site outside the Domestic terminal back in the 90’s.
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Atlas are also in the process of rebranding the other former Fresh Trading Co site in Welshpool - the business behind Fresh Trading Co was liquidated last year, so the stations have been for sale for quite some time and were running on the bare minimum - limited trading hours, stock and fuel choices (they didn’t have U95 available for over a year despite having the pumps for it). Not sure if it means that we’ll see any changes to the Northam Mobil fresh trading co branded site. Atlas also operate / supply a number of other independent Shell branded sites.
A long time coming, Perth Airport announced this way back at the end of 2019, of course the pandemic got in the way in terms of the viability of the site. There’s also 2 food concessions up for lease within the site as well. Construction has been very slow so far, I can’t see it opening for at least another few months yet.
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Northam could possibly be taken over by X Convenience, which would mean minimum disruption as they’re a Mobil distributor.
Fresh Trading Co had some bold plans and never delivered unfortunately. The Northam site had a Sandwich Chef outlet when it opened in October 2019, but it closed within the first year, which I’m sure was majority Covid driven. That part of the shop is now run in house with a range of takeaway meals.
Atlas is also opening a service station in Midvale on Morrison Rd, which already has BP, Puma and 7 Eleven in close proximity.
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The Northam site is beautiful. Set in a hill of sorts, never been to one like it before.
Mobil here is called Fresh Trading Co opening last year does that mean it will rebrand as Atlas in regional Qld?
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BIGW boss heads for the the exit after Woolworths imported him from NZ only last year. I’m sure that will go down well at WOW. Looks like it was about $$$
A third party Ampol in Nambour in Queensland is/was also owned and operated by Fresh Trading Co, I would guess they would either rebrand to Atlas, otherwise the servo may have bought by another company (or if bought by Ampol themselves - rebrand to their in-house Foodary branding and start offering Woolworths EDR Points/Uber/NRMA discounts etc)
The other Ampol in Nambour is EG owned and operated. Opened as a Woolworths Caltex before the EG sale.
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