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The History of Woolworth - The Rise and Decline of the F.W. Woolworth Company

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Featuring photographs of Woolworth's worldwide, this history focuses mainly on the United States side of Woolworth. Frank Winfield Woolworth was born in 1852 and opened his first retail establishment in 1879. Known as the architect of the Five and Dime, Woolworth struggled until finding his niche in the retail market. Becoming successful and even building the largest building in the world in 1913, the Woolworth Building in New York, his company flourished after his death in 1919. Woolworth expanded to different specialized stores and at one time had over 8,000 stores but today, zero remain. Woolworth is still alive in history due to the acquisition of Foot Locker in the 1970s but the original Woolworth declared bankruptcy in 1997 and all stores shut down. I hope you enjoy the video and photography collection and narrative from the beginning of Woolworth until the end. #retailrewind
Correction: I realize Utica, New York was pronounced incorrectly. Having never been there, I watched a couple of videos on the town and still it was wrong. Sorry for the error.
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@markraven7316 3 года назад

Who else loved the toy section of Woolworths? The model section was the greatest.

@SoapinTrucker 2 года назад

Wow!!!! I forgot that some stores actually carried models!!!! Yes, I would have been in that section too, but I have few memories of the store overall, mostly us getting lunch at one while doing downtown shopping. I also seem to remember Sears stores, much more! LOL

@gulfgypsy 3 года назад

Used to love Woolworths. They had wonderful lunch counters and generally a small pet section with gold fish and parakeets to buy --- You could buy everything from clothes to household items and basic pantry items. They were great! Thank you for the short trip down memory lane!

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

I miss those all in one stores that you just can’t find anymore - especially with their own lunch counters or even eating areas like kmart and walmart used to have.

@daniellekennedy2338 3 года назад

I miss those lunch counters. Mom use to take me to eat lunch their all the time. Target tried to have a refreshment stand but nothing can hold a candle to woolworths

@vaughnslavin9784 3 года назад

The rotating roasting nuts at the lunch counter!

@RichardCockerill 3 года назад

i prefer 7-11

@michaeldavidson8971 3 года назад

@@RichardCockerill Weirdo!

@eyestoenvy 2 года назад

Woolworth's was an EXPERIENCE, miss them dearly

@kenrutherford1109 9 месяцев назад

I miss Woolworth too and I especially miss McCrory's

@lindatisue733 3 года назад

As a kid it felt fancy to eat at the Woolworth's grill.

@wendyarenz3429 3 года назад

This breaks my heart....my whole childhood was going to Woolworths, Bellscot and Kmart!!

@Sharibaby 3 года назад

Dang-loved department stores with cafeterias-I remember the Woolworth cafeteria counter. K-Mart also had a great cafeteria experience too. I would shop with my young child (he is 36 yrs old now) I could get mashed potatoes and gravy for his lunch-and then continue to shop after he ate!

@nickhill8612 3 года назад

My very first job was at Kmart and I loved it. The managers were great. I remember they opened at like noon on Sundays and closed around 6 pm. It was convenient to have lunch there.

@jackson5116 2 года назад

Kmart got that, because Kresge originally had it. Kmart was an offshoot of Kresge's originally, so many of the things Kmart had, especially early on, were just extensions of what Kresge was already doing.

@pamelamorgan422 Год назад

Would go to kresge 's in airway shopping center in Dayton Ohio every saturday with my grandparents. Grandpa would always get roastbeef hotshot and the coca cola dispenser would take a gallon glass jug with the syrup in it excellent memories

@michelehood8837 Год назад

When I was college sophomore at Michigan State University in 1988, my roommates and I would get sundaes at the lunch counter in the Frandor Woolworths. I think the location shut down within a few years. We thought the store was cool in an old-school way. Pretty much the only time I’ve ever been to a Woolworths.

@PandaPowerable 3 года назад

Woolies opened their first store in Germany in 1927 and they're still going strong here today.

@davidsquires154 3 года назад

I miss Woolworth's,Kresge's , Neisner's and Newberry's and they all 5 and 10 stores.

@lynnkanerva4519 3 года назад

I remember Neisners and Kresge's but not Newberry's.

@nickhill8612 3 года назад

@@lynnkanerva4519 I don't remember any of those.

@lf7961 3 года назад

I was beginning to think no one remembers Newberry’s. Loved Newberry’s.

@rayunseitig6367 3 года назад

mee too.

@pamelamorgan422 Год назад

Tore down the last kmart in Dayton Ohio last year was empty. Now a krogers grocery being built

@bettyking1495 3 года назад

When I was 17 I got my 1st apartment I shopped their for my household goods enjoyed that store and when I was young girl every evening after school I would go there and by fries & drink sit at the stools counter and they use to sell the best chicken wings yummy😋 loved that store miss it so much❤

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing your memory. It's fun to look back at such times - especially the food from places such as Woolworth that we can no longer get.

@normbittner3762 3 года назад

I worked for a short time at the Woolworths in the Beloit, WI mall- around 1985-86.

@geetamohammed 3 года назад

I live in the West Indies on the island of Trinidad and there were some Woolworths stores there I loved shopping there with my mom so much memories ❤️❤️

@augustmosco 3 года назад

In Chicago, during the 50s and 60s we actually had two Woolworths downtown (one eventually turned into a Kresges ) but the one on State and Washington had the only double-decker lunch counter I ever saw. It could probably serve 50-60 people at a time. The basement had a full service cafeteria also. The store was so popular that it even had its own entrance from the subway below State St. Fond memories.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Wow that would’ve have been so cool to have seen and eat at! It sounds like it was quite the bustling place back in the middle of the century with people coming from all over. I can just imagine how busy it was. I wonder what’s in that location now?

@augustmosco 3 года назад

@@RetailRewindI haven't been downtown in about 20 years so I'm not sure, but the last time I was there the store had been divided up into two spaces (it was that big) and one of the spaces had a fast food business in it. Not a McDonalds but some smaller chain. The other side had a clothing shop. It's so hard to say right now because so many small business have closed with this pandemic and won't re-open. Thanks for asking.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Very cool! Thanks for the update on location. It’s always interesting hearing the transformation of a once prominent business but usually sad. Definitely sounds like a big building!

@nickhill8612 3 года назад

@@augustmosco Sounds like a great memory.

@cindywatman1725 3 года назад

I loved going into Woolworth’s which was located on the corner of Main Street and Roosevelt Ave in Flushing Queens, NY. I loved perusing their cosmetic section before I was old enough to wear makeup but when I was old enough I bought my first lipstick there. Aahhh great memories🙂

@michaelbabella9012 3 года назад

usta go to wooolworths lunch counter...they had balloons above the counter, u pick a balloon, they pop it and whatever it says inside, from a penny to 79 cents is what you paid for a banana split. they had everything a kid or parent could want at a reasonable price...and nothing made in cheap. I still have a lot of hand me down Woolworth products in my possession.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Interesting! That sounds fun and I can imagine the excitement of the kids (or parents who were paying) when the balloon came out with a penny price! Thanks for sharing the memory.

@michaelhorn4540 3 года назад

I always loved Woolworth and remember going there as a child. They had the best cheesecake and cheeseburger I've ever eaten. The last Woolworth store I've been in was 15 years ago in Greenock Scotland

@handylady8015 3 года назад

Records, cheap makeup and Evening In Paris cologne. And those hot dogs with the bun that was toasted on the outside. Chocolate malts too. Ah Woolworth. Still miss ‘em.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Making me hungry! Nothing beats a good malt!

@maryhabbart8847 Год назад

Loved going to Woolworth co. Back in the day. I loved going at Christmas time. Loved eating at the lunch counter.❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

@sisterluke 3 года назад

By the time I was a kid, maybe age 5, the Woolworth in like Los Angeles county(sorry can't remember the location) was like a 99 cent store. My grandmother who seemed to love taking me to this place and K-mart which also no longer exists was a ritual and its probably the best things I remember doing with my grandmother. She seemed to like these places, and I was happy because the toys were very cheap and she bought a lot of toys for me. I don't remember the Woolworth but the K-mart we used to go to had a cafeteria where I was able to secure a greasy fast food meal and my grandmother was happy too. All this happened in the early 1990s. I'm pretty sure these stores closed by the time I was grown up.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Sounds like quite the fun times and memories with your grandmother. Those family memories are always the best! Do you still have any of the toys she bought for you from those stores? I remember going to Kmart with my grandpa as a kid and getting wrestling figurines :)

@lumpylumpy3931 2 года назад

I met a lady today in Reno TX, she worked for the company for 35 years, she’s 80 today. She worked in 42 states and started at the age of 18 and quit in 1995 I believe. She had all kinds of stories. Very cool

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

I can’t believe how many times she transferred, averaged more than one different state a year. She could probably write a book.

@lumpylumpy3931 2 года назад

@@RetailRewind she definitely has a story. She said that when a new manager come in somewhere, they’d ask well who could do this and the coworkers would always say. Ann can. Lol she was known all over

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

I wonder what she did after 1995 and quit the company. I’m sure it was difficult finding anything else since she must’ve loved her job. Gotta love the dedication though!

@lumpylumpy3931 2 года назад

I was told she became a maid for a family. For 80 years old she is very outgoing and all she talked about was her experience with that company. She told me that in 1993 or 92 she got a call asking her to go to Hawaii and she told the guy that she loved to go but the manager strictly said ask your mother first. Lol her mother was in her 90s and I guess the company really cared about family because she was told to ask what her mother thought about her going, so she told her mother that the company wanted her to go to Hawaii and her mother said “ your going right? Lol

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

Haha, oh wow, i wonder that even though her mother said to go, did she go? I wouldn’t mind working there :) It’s a different concept than today where companies actually cared about first, their employee, and secondly their employees family. Today for most companies an employer is just a number than can be replaced. Very fun personal history!

@mohammadayub2760 2 года назад

I am surprised that a company so old can go down under ♥️♥️♥️

@pamelamorgan422 Год назад

Loved going to Woolworths as a kid in fairborn ohio.remember going in with my mom one time bought a candy lipstick.payed for it went to car where my dad and brother were.started eating my candy lipstick my father saw me smacked it out of my hand told me u dont eat lipstick.only time ever getting yelled at by my dad.loved getting school supplies there.

@hebneh 2 года назад

"And so come out where the fun is; browse all around / Discover why Woolworth's the brightest spot in town / It's fun to shop Woolworth; there's more than ever before / In your fun-filled Woolworth store!"

@applescruff1969 Год назад

I miss Woolworth and I never even got to go to one. The way my parents talk about it makes me want to go now! Lol.

@intuitive7274 3 года назад

W F. Woolworth. W T Grant J C Penny all these were prominent in the 1940,s thru 1970,s I remember the good days of American owned and operated by Americans

@lindatisue733 3 года назад

When I visit the US, I always shop a JC Penny's, wish they would ship to the EU, but they won't even let people in the EU look at their website.

@jackson5116 2 года назад

You forgot S S Kresge who was dotting just as many Main Street locatios as those you listed, and in that same time period (until the late-60's when they decided to focus all their attention on Kmart and close/convert existing Kresge's).

@rayunseitig6367 3 года назад

Fun shop, made a difference in my life.

@johnstancliff7328 3 года назад

had they followed suite with other companies doing the $1.00 store theme.... they would still be around... Dollar Tree used to be Ben Franklins 5 and dime... woolworth should have listened...

@lotharhamburg5343 Год назад

All over NYC was a great time to be young

@tamarakelsey9630 Год назад

My mother worked the lunch counter at the Utica, NY location. Then at the New Hartford, NY location. She was a dedicated employee for 38 years and stayed on until the stores closed. She just turned 83.

@RetailRewind Год назад

Wow she was very dedicated indeed! You don’t see people working that long for companies anymore. I’m sure she has some fun stories to tell through her years working the lunch counter.

@kendalson7100 3 года назад

Woolworth and Ben Franklin. I loved my dime stores!

@matthewcrossemc 3 года назад

Just a follow up ,for the past few years two retail chains ( B&M and The Range) are trying to make themselves like Woolworths right down to the stock they sell and the colours in the shops

@joconnor9256 3 года назад

That’s very interesting, I thought Woolworths or Woolies as we call them here in Australia was part of the US company , that explains how the stores here are thriving while the US stores closed . We also don’t have Walmart

@itsthehumidityyall8303 3 года назад

No Walmart? Lucky you! We’re trapped in the US by them.

@lindatisue733 3 года назад

Guess Australia has strong unions? Dealing with unions has kept Walmart out of several countries.

@oscardelta1257 3 года назад

Yep, used to go down to the bargain basement where they put all of the closeouts and one off items, it was really cheap, the stuff down there was .25, .50 and $1 in the 1970's. I remember the lunch counter, my aunt (now passed away) use to buy us lunch there. Memories of my time growing up. My aunt called Woolworth the five and dime store. Had no idea foot locker was Woolworth, I thought San Francisco Music Box company had bought Woolworth but SMB was sold by Venator in 1999

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Sounds like a lot of fun memories with your Aunt. It's sad these places are gone and no longer will families be able to create memories at places such as Woolworth.

@janmcelvain8370 3 года назад

$ 5.00 could go a long way in this store! Great memories here...

@Madness832 3 года назад

Good ol' Woolworth's. There was once a big multi-floored store, in downtown Boston (it was really quite impressive). Also, a standard location in South Boston. As a kid, I'd take my allowance, to the latter, to buy the latest 45s. Those were in a locked case, which did require a sales clerk's help.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Fun memories for sure! I wonder if the 33 LPs were a high theft item also since they were bigger? Thanks for sharing your story.

@palady1486 3 года назад

I worked for Woolco after graduating in 1974....loved it. It was an anchor store in a covered mall with a Woolworths store in the same mall. Woolco take all the business from the Woolworth store. Sorry to see all the Woolco stores close.

@ralphgarcia913 2 года назад

I remember a line around the block of people wanting to buy Beatles records and merchandise when they first hit America in 1964. I was 4 years old.. This was in New York City, Manhattan, Chelsea neighborhood. It was located on 23rd street between 8th and 7th Avenue. Beatles records always sold well there but not always with lines around the block. In 1964 it did. Soon bookstores started selling Beatles and other groups rock records. I remember when Batman TV show came out in 1966 that they sold a lot of Batman merchandise. I was 6 years old back in 1966.

@maple1255 3 года назад

Very well done and interesting

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Thank you!

@sandrawadsworth5173 3 года назад

Love them!❤️

@donaldellis8952 3 года назад

When I lived in St. Augustine Florida in the 1970’s Woolworths was the onky store in town where you could buy records.

@robertwalton7307 3 года назад

I delivered plant goods to every Woolworth in Mass,RI,and New Hampshire in the early 70's.Every one had the same floor plan and of course where else could you buy little turtles and parakeets? Sadly they croaked not soon after.They tried with mall stores and a huge downtown Boston store but not enough.

@charlesbortz5524 3 года назад

There is a wool worths in Nashville. They have the original lunch counter and floors that was in the store. They are a restaurant.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Be fun to check out. Have you eaten there yet?

@cyclenut 3 года назад

In the 70s woolworth and woolco stores were closing or marked down prices. They would have HO scale trains and slot cars marked down to almost free. By the time I was 14 I could cover a basketball court with trains and slot cars.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Wow that sounds like fun! If you have any left, I’m sure they’re worth a bit of money today.

@cyclenut 3 года назад

@@RetailRewind I loved it. They are all put up and they are all in good shape. Not about to let my childhood be sold.

@Fultonfalcons86 3 года назад

Man they had the best food around when I was a kid in the 70's best shakes ..........

@daniellekennedy2338 3 года назад

Yes they did. My mother took me to eat lunch at their counter. I miss it so much 😢

@RichardCockerill 3 года назад

very funny the 70's did not exist,just a dream bubba

@beatrizgonzalez1285 3 года назад

@@daniellekennedy2338 how about sav on drugs

@jackson5116 2 года назад

6:27 and all 4 were subsidiaries of parent companies- Dayton, Kresge, and Walton's. Also, 1962 saw the first ShopKo open. The year 1962 is big for discount retail, all kicked off when Kresge opened its first Kmart.

@jenniferburchill3658 Год назад

I remember how my dad and I would get lunch at the cafeteria at stores like Woolworth's and Kmart.

@timebong8366 2 года назад

At Woolworths the patty melts were so good

@roydidlock1867 3 года назад

With reference to Woolworths, Australia. This company was formed by a group of businessmen in Sydney in 1924, headed by a man called Percy Christmas. As the story goes, when it came to register their trading name here in Australia, the businessmen, after considering various names, cheekily submitted the name "Woolworths". The regulator, aware of the American/British company believed it advisable to inform their New York headquarters first. In New York, the enquiry was apparently delegated to a relatively junior employee who merely confirmed that the company had no plans to expand to Australia and advised that the company had no objections. As a result, in later years when British Woolworths expanded to Commonwealth Countries, they were effectively excluded from Australia and New Zealand.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Thank you so much for your comment and such interesting history! I haven't dug too deep into the Woolworth Australia yet but reading what you wrote, makes me want to learn more! It does make you wonder who the junior employee was that messed that one up! I have a feeling their career with Woolworth didn't last too long once things were figured out that they couldn't expand to certain Commonwealth Countries and Australia. Thanks again for your awesome comment!

@alanstrong3295 3 года назад

I did like Woolworth and Woolco.

@loveintheair9260 3 года назад

thank you for making this video!

@hermelindadesales8753 3 года назад

Hola!! ame trabajar para WOOLWORTH POLANCO en los 70's desde Cd Mexico saludos

@augustmosco 3 года назад

Good video. Nice pictures.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Thank you very much!

@madelinevegas8123 Год назад

I was not born yet but this looks like a cool store I wish it a Was back today’s stores are crap

@michaelciccone2194 3 года назад

My relative Alison Miller used the make the windows nice. Vilma Hammerick was his dear friend.

@jediknight38 3 года назад

I remember a Woolworth's just three blocks from my apartment where I grew up. It sold everything you needed. It also had it's own interior lunch counter. And I played my very first video game, Stunt Cycle, there. Is the a video on Alexanders and Two Guys out there?

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Talk about an old school game! Sounds like a fun memory for sure. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll look into Alexanders and Two Guys also. Thanks for sharing your story.

@nickhill8612 3 года назад

Great video and thank you.

@ShakespeareCafe 3 года назад

"Diamond bracelets Woolworth doesn't sell, baby"

@hebneh 2 года назад

“Gee, I’d love to see you looking swell, baby / But diamond bracelets Woolworth’s doesn’t sell, baby / Till that happy day I know so well, baby / I can’t give you anyhing but love.”

@philippeberdy1330 3 года назад

While I'm not certain, I believe that Kresge's evolved into K-Mart. I really miss the $5.00 calendars every year as a stocking stuffer Christmas gift.

@edwinrouse511 2 года назад

The older days was a lot different than they are today aren't they ?

@glennso47 3 года назад

Can you do a video on WT Grant? They competed with FW Woolworth.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Love the idea! Thanks for the suggestion and I’ll add it to my list.

@photonotavailable7936 3 года назад

With my own money, I bought my first 45, Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul and Mary, at W.T. Grant at Lakewood Center, California. Cost = $.45.

@paultanner2007 3 года назад

My parents met at one in the 50s my mother served food.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

That’s an awesome story!

@kennethbreuhl2540 3 года назад

July 17, 1977 was a sad day in this country.

@jackson5116 2 года назад

6:53 probably by locations, but Sears had more sales in 1979 than any other retailer. Followed by Kmart Corporation, then JC Penney.

@optitom9033 3 года назад

When they closed the Woolworths in sacramento I knew the manager and she gave me two of their laminated menus

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Nice keepsake you can’t find anymore!

@jackson5116 2 года назад

It's incredible how much Kresge based his store after Woolworth's. It would take the opening of Kmart before Kresge surpassed Woolworth in total sales.

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

Very interesting! Wish I could’ve gone to a Kresge in my lifetime.

@trend-o-rama_studios 2 года назад

Woolworth’s restructured and became Footlocker. Betcha did not know THAT!

@jimdavis3435 3 года назад

I miss Woolworth...Family Dollar is in a way kind of like them but not as great!!!

@popimpfromlogansquar 3 года назад

You mentioned there are still Woolworth's stores in Australia and South Africa. Which you mention that they have no connection to the original Woolworth's. What about the three Woolworth's stores in Acapulco, Mexico? Which are still operating to this day (March 2021) complete with a cafeteria. These stores remind me of the Woolworth's my mother used to take me to in the late 80's and early 90's here in Chicago. Do these Mexican Woolworth's have any connection to the original American stores?

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Great comment Aries! Someone had mentioned the stores in Mexico earlier so I did more research and can’t believe I missed this history in the video. I’ll be adding it to the description soon since it’s very interesting. I read that after the 1997 closures in the U.S., the original company sold its interest in the Mexico stores to a holding company that is part of Grupo Commercial. Woolworth first came to Mexico In 1956 and indeed were quite successful. I would love to visit one someday and interested to see what the cafeteria has to offer. These stores definitely had connection with the original Woolworth until 1997. Thanks for your comment!

@thithuynguyen4202 2 года назад

You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

Thank for the input! I'm not sure how to do that once it's already been uploaded but I'll check and see.

@seand67 2 года назад

Wow......Footlocker....Who knew ????

@h2300 3 года назад

Nice video. Just a quick edit, the store photo marked Camden, NJ was actually in Camden Town, London. 7:57

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Sorry for the error but thanks for the nice message and correction. Much appreciated!

@h2300 3 года назад

@@RetailRewind just a small thing but I used to live near camden, NJ and it didn't look familiar lol. subbed...keep up the good work!😀

@mrmjb1960 3 года назад

Hutton was the last heir to Woolworth.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

She lived an interesting life and seven marriages! I’d like to learn more about her life.

@Melbnolan 3 года назад

Woolworths in South Africa and Australia.

@h0ckeyd 3 года назад

Quite a few of those photos look like they were in the UK. My mum worked in the cafe in Southampton's (yup, Titanic, Mayflower etc) main store in the UK. It was pretty big and there were about 6 Woolies in my city alone. My friend actually used to manage one of them (if you watch a channel called "atomic shrimp", he goes to an international foodstore in a place called Portswood....I don't think he knows that was a Woolworth's and that my friend managed it.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Thanks for your comment! Indeed quite a few pictures from the UK. It’s fun seeing so many varieties of stores and architecture from around the world. Thanks for the video recommendation, I’m going to check it out.

@joesiwek949 3 года назад

I remember in downtown Minneapolis years ago we had a wool worth.and Michael Jackson came there.they shut it down for a couple hours. For Michael. And he didn't buy any thing. I used to buy a lot of records there

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Wow, that would be frustrating to shut the entire store down, lose a lot of money in sales and MJ didn’t even buy anything. Thanks for sharing the story!

@jefferyyoung2580 Год назад

There used be 8n in kitchener

@turdferguson74 3 года назад

Too bad management couldn’t have seen the dollar store. Maybe too much whiskey and cigars on the golf course by the board.

@American-Motors-Corporation 2 года назад

Basically Whoolco drained the company because world wars did not know how to run a bigger department store and it lost money since they wanted coupled with the fact that it had inconsistencies of square footage like they would go to a small town and build too big of a store that really screwed them over basically WT Grant had the same problem!

@michaelciccone2194 3 года назад

Anybody knows where the archives of this venerable company is located? I had a relative that worked for Woolworth's in NYC circa 1940's.

@SR-kc9fj 2 года назад

Norwalk, Ct had a Woolworth

@mohammednadeemanwar2213 2 года назад

Image at @8.00 is in Camden London UK definitely not US

@lalani888blue 3 года назад

Walmart has zero charm & warmth ~ Not like Woolworths did...It's just a warehouse of in - out...boredom...

@thomassharp2719 2 года назад

What about Woolworths in Mexico, South Africa and Australia ? There still going.

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

Yes they sure are. This video was a short history of Woolworth in the United States but there are definitely off-shoots in other countries.

@andrewmurray9391 2 года назад

I wouldn't mind at all if Dollar Tree becomes $2 Tree. I have to buy 2 each at those sizes anyway.

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

I’ve noticed quantity of their products getting smaller so I hope when they raise prices, products will go back to what they once were.

@williamzander4732 3 года назад

They had all the poor before homeless sitting there drinking coffee and a big stack of newspapers they didn't have a job. You knew they were there for the air condition and heat. They had a lot of knick nacks They had there own brand on some products Grilled Cheese.

@barbarapineda5730 3 года назад

Is good he's open his co...and is helps me... becuz I'm poor.but he's was high class, rich nothing wrong. That

@paulbroderick8438 3 года назад

Competition is fine but when is there just too much of it one wonders.

@barbarapineda5730 3 года назад

Hes worked so hard. Too reach too. The top. Yes a five & tenth stores, his n Merch... is'nt expensives.either I used too. Shop there n... m... primes.

@JohnAranita 3 года назад

I would go to the Woolworth in Honolulu and no one would be shopping.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

I wonder why that is? Was it not a good store to shop at or too much competition?

@hebneh 2 года назад

There was more than one Woolworth store in Honolulu - I can think of four - and as I recall, the one in Ala Moana Center had the highest sales of the entire chain for a time.

@rodneypodesta6087 3 года назад

Are Woolworths here in Australia the same as a America

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Unfortunately the only way they’re connected is by name. The name was able to be used since it wasn’t trademarked in Australia.

@rodneypodesta6087 3 года назад

Thank you for that information on Woolworths

@kimpossibleyescruelladevil4960 3 года назад

Well Woolworths in the UK Existed until 2009

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

They definitely did and existed in the US until 1997. Original Woolwoorths are still open in Mexico today but under different ownership.

@angiesmith7785 2 года назад

It was time

@tropictrains8956 2 года назад

Woolworths still exists in Australia

@RetailRewind 2 года назад

Yes they do but no connection with the original FW Woolworth Company.

@wenytias4187 2 года назад

あなたの最初の誕生日プレゼントは何ですか？

@carloslopez1582 3 года назад

Used to shoplift there.

@Sharibaby 3 года назад

Jeez! Lololol

@theblacksheep5226 3 года назад

Friend of mine's bro did too. Security roughed him up pretty good and he sued and won nearly a million bucks. Friend still pissed off about it.

@nickhill8612 3 года назад

@@theblacksheep5226 Haha wow that's crazy.

@nickhill8612 3 года назад

Haha hahaha

@bohnafyde1 3 года назад

Check your pronunciation of “Utica, New York.” It’s wrong. The accent is on the “U.” It’s you’-tih-cuh. Not you-TEE-ca.

@RetailRewind 3 года назад

Thanks for kindly letting me know the pronunciation. I've gotten quite a few nasty comments about it with language I didn't want on the channel so I appreciate it :) I realized I said it wrong right after posting the video but was too late so I made a little "correction" statement in the description.