Waurn Ponds has Both K-Mart and Target in the Same Centre.
However, Mediaweek reports Tower Systems owner Mark Fletcher (who also runs the Australian Newsagency Blog) has hit out at the ABC assumptions made about the sector using the Mansfield retailer as an indicator of the retail channel.
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The ceremony was hosted by Seven’s Mark Beretta and Larry Emdur.
Delta Goodrem and fiance Matthew Copley (both recently returning from the UK supporting Shania Twain’s tour), John Foreman and the IGA Band and the Gold Coast Children’s Choir provided entertainment.
Award winners
2024 IGA National Small Fresh Department of the Year – IGA Local Grocer Strathmore
2024 IGA National Small Grocery & Perishables Department of the Year – IGA Local Grocer Hawks Nest
2024 IGA National Medium Delicatessen Department of the Year – IGA Midway Buronga
2024 IGA National Medium Meat Department of the Year – IGA Cockatoo
2024 IGA National Medium Bakery Department of the Year – Mount Compass IGA
2024 IGA National Medium Fresh Produce Department of the Year – Lovey’s IGA Gillieston Heights
2024 IGA National Medium Grocery & General Merchandise Department of the Year – Lovey’s IGA Gillieston Heights
2024 IGA National Medium Dairy & Freezer Department of the Year – IGA Creswick
2024 IGA National Large Delicatessen Department of the Year – Saints Foodland IGA
2024 IGA National Large Meat Department of the Year – IGA Queen St Village
2024 IGA National Large Bakery Department of the Year – Saints Foodland IGA
2024 IGA National Large Fresh Produce Department of the Year – IGA Mt Evelyn
2024 IGA National Large Grocery & General Merchandise Department of the Year – IGA Kinross
2024 IGA National Large Dairy & Freezer Department of the Year – Saints Foodland IGA
2024 IGA National Customer Service & Experience Award – IGA Creswick
2024 National Rising Star Award – Dion Aloi – Ritchies IGA Rowville
2024 IGA National Community Award – IGA Woodvale
2024 IGA National Small Transformation & Innovation Award – IGA Local Grocer Preston
2024 IGA National Medium Transformation & Innovation Award – IGA Russell Island
2024 IGA National Large Transformation & Innovation Award – Ritchie’s IGA Fine Food & Wine Tatura
2024 IGA Hall of Fame – Spero Tsapalliaris
2024 IGA National Small Store of the Year – IGA Local Grocer Westbrook
2024 IGA National Medium Store of the Year – IGA Midway Buronga
2024 IGA National Large Store of the Year Award – IGA Kinross
2024 IGA National Retailer of the Year – IGA Kinross
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Do you all think Delacombe Town Centre needs a Big W?
Also do you all think Big W needs to grow in Victoria to least 50? Stores?
Which major centres in Victoria are actually missing a Big W though?
Horsham, Warrnambool, Seymour, Bairnsdale, to name a few.
There’s a Target and Kmart in Frankston, but no Big W.
Chadstone and Northland
Karingal is close enough
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True, there is a Big W at Karingal.
Supermarket giant Woolworths is rolling out a brand “new front-of-store experience” it claims will transform how Australians shop for their groceries.
In the age of automation, the grocery chain said it would be launching a series of reformatted hybrid stores, mixing self-serve and manned registers.
Pictures provided of a newly opened Woolworths store in Spotswood in Melbourne’s southwest show dual service desks with multiple staffed conveyor belt check-outs, as well as the now more typical self-service kiosks.
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Aren’t they all already a hybrid of self service and manned service?
I can’t say I’ve ever been to a Woolworths with just self service. There is always one or two people on the 15 or less section and another one or two people on manned counters.
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This is what Coles is already doing in quite a few of their supermarkets.
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I’m not sure whether this is right or not, but there was talk that they were going to do away with express (15 or less) and just have more self-serve. The store I was in could very easily go down this path if they haven’t already.
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Correct.
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So like some Coles have?
Many stores don’t have the 15 section anymore.
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Knox could certainly do with a Big W.
But they had two Coles stores for about 15 or so years so anything is possible.
Wonder what’s happening with Campsie Centre in Sydney. Many retailers closing including what seems to be BIG W too.