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they were in the us and pretty big when I was a kid. Did not even know they still existed.
Unrelated company. Woolworths in Australia and New Zealand goes back to a 1924 company founded in Sydney, and is today one of Australia's two "supermarket duopoly" (along with Coles, they control 67% of Australia's grocery store market).
The American one you're familiar with is the F. W. Woolworth Company of "five and dime" stores, which expanded to a lot of other countries.
Disambiguation page is useful.
There's also a different Woolworths in South Africa, they also own fashion label Coutry Road amonst other things.
Ironically, for a time, the South African Woolworths used to own an Australian luxury department store David Jones.
funny beause we also used to have coles that was a department store. Ill admit to some retail nostalgia with woolworths, service merchandise, and marshal fields. Heck even sears a bit and oh wow there was actually a goldblatts still in chicago in the current millenia. Thanks for setting me straight.
Yours was spelt Kohls, wasn't it? Or is that a separate store? I've had the confusion with that one before with people mentioning it on podcasts or in video.
you know your right. That one is still around and not a big thing for me. Its claim to fame is this gameification of discounts with double coupons and kohls cash and stuff that allows for purchaing things real cheap. I never liked it but I knew people who were all gaga and admidately they seemed to be able to get stuff deeply discounted without ever paying to much for things although they might buy some stuff that was at just a decent price.