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[Finn]

Good to see the Woolworths brand continuing in Australia, albeit as a supermarket (one of the major two).

[WillPS]

Good to see the Woolworths brand continuing in Australia, albeit as a supermarket (one of the major two).

It's just a chain with the same name though; it's not of F.W. Woolworth provenance. The only surviving outpost of the former company is Germany.

Another unrelated company with the same name continues in South Africa.

[Alexia]

Quite close to the British '70s logo though, that Aussie one.

[JAS84]

Quite the achievement when they seem to be based on different things. Both resemble a W, but the Aussie one looks like an apple and the British one looks like a shopping basket.

[james2001]

Isn't it unusual that two different logos based on the letter W somehow end up looking similar!

[JAS84]

But W is usually a zigzag shape. These are both curly with a loop - quite the coincidence.

[WillPS]

Not exactly uncommon either though:

[Alexia]

You don't say!

[Finn]

Good to see the Woolworths brand continuing in Australia, albeit as a supermarket (one of the major two).

It's just a chain with the same name though; it's not of F.W. Woolworth provenance. The only surviving outpost of the former company is Germany.

Another unrelated company with the same name continues in South Africa.

Fair point.

But still nice to see the name

[scottishtv]

Vaguely on topic, I heard "Winter Wonderland" on the radio today and was reminded of the Woolies Winter Wonderland ad campaign from years back, with the really long TV adverts. I've only found one example on Youtube, but it really must've cost a fortune to run.

The links below are from Cartoon Network, but we had terrestrial TV in our household so these long ads must've also run on ITV for me to remember them.

In this example, two ads in one break, at 33 seconds in, and also at 3 mins and 8 secs in.

[DJDave]

I always think of these style adverts with that song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrGJLj3t-0U