It's always fun checking out shops abroad. Here's a few snaps I've taken this week.
Proper shops, not my beloved Charidees!
First up, German Woolworths! It Still amazes me that Woolies exists on the continent but not in Britain anymore!
Have you got a Woolies?
Next up, TEDI, like a B&M, where they had BAZOOKA gum! It looks just like Bazooka Joe from the Sixties! Is that possible?
Kojak lollies!
Space spielset
Knock-off Bionicles
Hot Wheels everywhere
Zombie candy and gum
Zombie Dippers! Are those Airfix skeleton parts I see?
A gummi brain in blood sauce!
Oh, Halloween PEZ too.
Then we have the German Smyth's Toys and a few more Hot Wheels.
Fast and Furious
Special Twin mills, big and small redline versions.
Next up some food and drink in a great supermarket in Holland called Jumbo.
And to finish, some German Charidee shop stock - cool sofas, games and Kinder toys.
and finally, a delicious schnitzel dinner for me and the Missus!
Lekker lekker!
What do you think?
We certainly do have Woolies in Australia... More than a department store like their English counterparts, they brand themselves here as "The fresh food people" and together with Coles, they form a Supermarket duopoly that has almost choked out the smaller competition like IGA. The recently arrived Aldi has given them a bit of a run for their money, but they are still big enough to set their own prices which have recently increased way beyond inflation (together with their profits!).
ReplyDeleteFun fact: Woolworths in Australia is not affiliated with the US business. When they were setting up their first shop in the 1924, they decided Woolworths sounded like a dependable brand and as the name was not registered in Australia, they grabbed it!
Fascinating Looey! No Coles in Blighty and alas no Woolies. I used to get Pic n Mix sweets at Woolies and buy PEZ to put away for posterity! Aldi and Lidl are THE discounters in the UK, with the big three supermarkets: Tesco, Sainsbury's and ASDA all scrabbling to match their low prices and immense popularity. We once had NETTO but it arrived to soon, went sour and departed our shores. In Germany this summer we go to NETTO every day. It's great especially the fresh baked breakfast rolls. Lekker!
DeleteNo more Woolworth's stores here in the USA. The company morphed into Foot Locker stores, known mostly for sneakers ("trainers" in other parts of the world). But we do have a few Aldi's, my favorite grocery store!
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed Baron, I thought Woolies was an American institution! Footlocker eh, they're in Britain selling shoes and sports gear. Not being sporty I've not been in one. As for Aldi, it's wunderbar!
DeleteGreat shots Woodsy - looks like you're having fun over there. I do miss Good 'Ol Deutschland and the the Schnitzel's! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed. Yep, we are here all of August. It's as wet as can be, torrential rain every day but I'm not bothered. Just keep the charity shops open and feed me the odd Schnitzel and I'm happy. The Missus needs a bit more like normal shops and dutch Tilsiter cheese!
DeleteOMG! Tilsiter was my very best favorite cheese in Germany!!! My mother-in-law used to laugh when I called it 'Stink Kase' hahahaha and after a while she started calling it that as well hahahaha
DeleteHa ha! That's what we call it too Ed!
DeleteI thought Woolco and Woolworth died off.
ReplyDeleteApparently not Anon!
DeleteWhen I was a boy (yes, I know that makes me sound really, really old) Woolworths were a low cost department store. Then they opened supermarkets. The department stores became Deka, but these closed down a couple of decades ago. The supermarkets continued for a time, owned by the same company that owned the Countdown chain. Eventually, all the remaining Woodworths supermarkets were renamed Countdown too.
ReplyDeleteSome Woolworths banded goods are still sold in Countdown supermarkets in New Zealand - one is my local supermarket.
Another tale of morphing chains! No DEKA or Countdown in the UK as far as I know Paul. I found a Woolworths branded Spectacles Repair Kit in a junk drawer here in Germany yesterday. I must have brought it over decades ago and left it! It's part of our car boot stall stock for this coming Saturday now, if it stops raining!
DeleteI do miss Woolworths - it was an institution when I was growing up. In Liverpool, there used to be a large store on the main high street and opposite it on the side of one of the old buildings was an ancient painted sign, long faded, which read 'Woolworths - Everything a Penny!' Bill
ReplyDeleteCould you get SpaceX at Woolies Bill?
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