Woolworth's here was a dry goods store. There were no groceries. It was more along the line of what Coles seems to be. I recall A&P grocery stores (The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company) and an ACME grocery store from when I was a kid. A&P created Eight O'Clock coffee, which were whole beans that got ground at the register. There were also Kroger grocery stores back then. I thought I recalled a Kroger elephant logo from when I was a kid in Indiana, but it turns out to be a Top Value Stamps logo.
I’m not sure if you will be able to,open this ,it’s a WW weekly specials catolog showing just what’s on special Oh arr they have my tea on special …better check my supply in pantry https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/catalogue/view#view=catalogue2&saleId=55925&page=1&areaName=SA @John Brunner
Post code 5000 is Adelaide City centre area , and yes there’s a WW in Rundle Mall right in city and a huge Coles
I shop at Kroger because it's only 2 miles away and is open until 11 pm. They are building a new Kroger right next to the old one, to open next summer. The old Kroger was so small they didn't carry a lot of items I like. Looking forward to it.
Since it opened here, I had shopped at Aldi's. It was a true box store. GREAT deals on canned goods and fresh stuff (oh, and wine!). A few frozen items. Then they put in a large refrigerated area. Prices started going up. Then they renovated the store. Now it is a toss up with our Piggly Wiggly price-wise and our huge Festival Foods--pricey but has anything you could possibly want. Walmart is a bother to get to.
There's a chain of stores called Whole Foods (purchased by Amazon in 2017.) Many refer to it as Whole Paycheck. When I need something exotic (Calabrian Peppers, Fenugreek, turmeric root), that's where I go rather than order online.
We used to have a Kroger store just down the road from us, where I almost always did my grocery shopping. there was a walmart nearby, but it was one of the old ones with only canned foods and bread in the grocery area. There was a local community collage next to the Krogers, so they always were busy. Then, Walmart built a huge super center just a couple blocks away, and the little college closed. Kroger lost a lot of business. Then, and Aldi’s came in where the old Walmart had been, and that took away enoug of the remaining business that Kroger just closed the store, and the next nearest one is several miles away and on a busy street. So, we never shop there anymore, unless we are going past the store for some other reason. Our Aldi’s used to have great specials, like the 50 cent eggs, but now everything costs about the same as at walmart. We also have. Whole Foods not too far away, but it is pretty expensive, so unless I need something that walmart or Aldo does not carry, we do not shop there either. They have a great variety of apples, so in the fall, I like to go to Whole Foods for apples.
We have an Aldi’s too. No wine or alcohol of any kind is sold there or in any of the grocery stores in this town. I think there was a “Blue Law” that was voted in eons ago--long before we moved here. “Old money” and some of the churches didn’t want the liquor stores to be open on Sundays nor would give any of the grocery stores a liquor license. Funny though, they must have forgotten there is a drive-thru liquor store just on the outskirts of the city limits that the town or county couldn’t control. It always has a steady line of cars driving through to get their Sunday booze. The town tried for years to force the owner of the liquor store to annex the business into the city limits, but he didn't.