Woolworths Supermarkets
Australian supermarket chain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Woolworths is a group of Australian supermarkets. It is known by locals as 'Woolies'. It is the largest supermarket chain in Australia.[1]
As of October 2008, the business had 780 Australian supermarkets and 667 liquor stores in Australia.[2] It owns 201 supermarkets in New Zealand. It also owns 271 hotels and the discount department store chain Big W and an electronics retail chain Dick Smith.[2]
Shops in Victoria used to be known as Safeway until 2008, when Woolworths Limited announced that all Safeway stores would become Woolworths stores in line with the rest of Australia.[1] The New South Wales company had taken over the Victorian chain in the 1980s but had not changed the shop names (and in fact rebranded existing Woolworths stores as Safeway).[1] In August 2008 there were 189 supermarkets in Victoria that were to be changed from being called Safeway to Woolworths.[1]
Woolworths was the first Australian supermarket to offer petrol discounts when a certain amount of money was spent in the shop.[3]
In 2009 Apple launched a legal challenge against Woolworths, claiming their logo, resembling a curl of fruit peel in the shape of a 'w', was superficially similar to the Apple logo.[4]
On 11 March 2020, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic to legacy shooting of enhanced community quarantine, The supermarket is temporarily disallowed.
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