27Nov/083
Eh?
I think at some point in the hazy past there was an advertising slogan "The Wonder of Woolies". I'm guessing there must have been, because:
The... blunder of Woolies. Right. And:
The... go under of Woolies. Mm, not quite so good, that one.
I thought I was getting on a bit but apparently even I'm too young to have heard of The Wonder of Woolies. Which makes me wonder why these national papers thought it'd be a wizard wheeze to use it as a front-page headline.
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November 27th, 2008 - 13:03
It’s because the only people who buy papers nowadays were born in 1854 and remember when the “Wonder of Woolies” was still a valid pop culture reference.
A quick Google search just throws up a bunch of papers using it to refer to Woolworths going under, so fuck knows.
November 27th, 2008 - 13:20
Bloody young ‘uns….wonder of woolies…..pic ‘n mix……easy to shoplift (ahem).
Perhaps you recall Woolies refusing to sell the Spitting Image Chicken Song as the B side had a line about being served at Woolies after less than 3 weeks wait, but never meeting a nice South African!
The first UK store was in Liverpool and people on the radio are waxing lyrically about how wonderful it was……most had not shopped there for decades.
My last memory of the store was asking for a CD and being told, ‘well, if it’s not on the shelf we ain’t got it.’
Irate workers could be best described as the Thunder of Woolies.
November 27th, 2008 - 15:11
I think the actual line in the (very irritating obv) song was ‘thats the wonder of Woolworth’ but obviously that wouldn’t have fitted on the page.
Something to refresh your memory but be quick before the administrators sell off the url…
http://museum.woolworths.co.uk/1970s-advertising.htm