‘More than just a supermarket’: Why Woolworths is building apartments
‘More than just a supermarket’: Why Woolworths is building apartments
Big retailers are moving away from stand-alone stores as Australian cities become more densely populated.
The article is definitely worth reading for more context. Basically, Woolies can find it challenging to secure land for new supermarkets, so proposing to build apartments above the supermarket makes it easier for them to gain city/state approvals.
If town planners at the city and state level are competent, they could use this opportunity to mandate that Woolies build affordable or public housing as their proposal.
16Wonder if renters will get 10% off their online shop, just to be bait-and-switched into in-store only?
6omg that pissed me off. They announced that change like a month after I had just renewed my year-long long-expiry phone plan, too. I've not done a big shop where I would want to use my 10% discount yet this month, but once I do I am absolutely going to be putting a complaint in to Woolies CS if the online order can't do the discount. You can't just change the terms mid-way through the deal like that...
And to make that change at the same time as also removing the inclusion of free paper shopping bags with your online order if you pay the subscription fee for Woolies Delivery (at least that service is month-to-month, not yearly, so it doesn't feel like they've removed something I have already paid for after I paid for it) just twisted the knife.
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I’m gonna lock in “money” eddy
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