Inside BIG W Australia

Описание: Inside Big W Australia

Big W (stylized as BIG W) is an Australian chain of discount department stores, which was founded in regional New South Wales in 1964. The company is a division of Woolworths Group and as at 2019 operated 176 stores, with around 18,000 employees mainly in Australia. BIG W stocks clothing, health and beauty, garden, manchester, kitchenware, toys, pet items, office items, books, DVDs, CDs, televisions, gaming consoles, video games, some furniture items, snack food and small electrical household appliances.

The first BIG W store opened in 1964 at the Jesmond shopping centre in Newcastle.[2][3] The original stores were full line department stores similar to a Myer and David Jones.[2] At that time Woolworths still operated several hundred Woolworths Variety stores, which were the original Woolworths stores and carried a small range of general merchandise products.

In 1970 the BIG W name ceased to be used and the stores were converted to what were then known as Woolworth Family centres that had "a very large range of general merchandise as well as a supermarket food range".[2] These stores were ultimately converted to supermarkets in the 1980s.




source: Wikipedia