The Disappearance of F. W. Woolworth Department Stores | They Did Not Die | History in the Dark
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- The F. W. Woolworth Company was at one time the largest department store chain in the world. What once started as a humble 5 and dime store grew into a corporate powerhouse and the top retail establishment in the United States. But as the market shifted towards big box stores rather than department formats, Woolworth was unable to adapt their core business model. Eventually, all their American locations would close, many believing they had gone under entirely. But that's incorrect. They're still around, even now, right under your feet.
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F.W. Woolworth had a MASSIVE impact on my hometown of Yorkton, SK, Canada, and on me for that matter. After the Hudson Bay Co. decided to move out of their original neoclassical landmark of a building, Woolworth's moved in, and remained there for THIRTY YEARS, serving as the main department store for our entire city. To this day, though the building is considered the HBC Building, one can still see evidence of its later occupant.
As for my side, The Bargain! Shop was the main place my family got mine and my sister's back-to-school clothes, and its small town iteration that we shopped at IS STILL OPEN TO THIS DAY! On top of that, Foot Locker is a great place to get shoes for years in our family. On the other hand, Northern Reflections is a name that is almost spat upon in my family. We somehow got onto their phoning list, and despite several attempts to stop them or to remove ourselves from the list, they never stopped calling us every month for SIX STRAIGHT YEARS. So yeah, thanks Woolworth. We DeGrows REALLY love ya!
And also Darkness, again, the country Barbados is pronounced Bar-BAY-dos!
Tooo funny. It's a little controversial in my country. Since they were oddly few and far between up North. My Grandmother said because of the "sit in's" done there. It was considered racist? I just know my Dickies were super expensive then as they are now.
Praise Barbatos!
For spam phone calls, do what I do with the scam phone calls, recruit them on your even more illegal scam. The last call I got from "Amazon" for my package being held due to needing verify my payment information I nearly got the guy on the phone to help me with running credit cards so I can start back up my nose sugar business after the lousy DEA caught my shipment. It was only a single truckload, but I needed to pull money from credit cards that I mysteriously found in people's wallets after stealing them. He oddly wasn't interested after I needed to ask him if he was a fed or not. Credit card fraud is illegal but most countries won't bother with extradition. Drug trafficking, most countries will throw you in prison for a very long time.
I loved Woolworths. It was a great store to go to. It had a great atmosphere and was fun to shop in. Wish we still had them.
Loving these company retrospectives. They're my favorite videos right now on YT.
A few UK Woolworths rebranded to "Wellworths" when they closed down, there should be a BBC documentary about it on RUclips somewhere.
@Larry They went completely bust and didn't rebrand. Wellworths was a store set up by some ex employees who reopened the one store they worked in under the Wellworths name, this however also went bust not long after.
The UK woolworths brand was bought by the same company that owns Very and launched it as an online only store but this closed down a few years ago too.
@@Chrzs2cj I thought Littlewoods had it too at some point?
But that site had very little fanfare and I never saw any advertising for it. so not surprised it went under.
Like when Argos wanted to make a clone site of Amazon called Jungle.
Larry! Always a delight to see your comments. Can't wait for new videos.
@@zg-it Thank you, I'm raring to go myself!!!
Not strictly true. Wellworths was a store opened in Dorchester, Dorset by a group of ex-Woolies employees, some of whom said they would succeed because they would do things 'the Woolworth way'. Considering doing things that way contributed to the company's collapse, I was always doubtful it would succeed.
I love how you’ve been going on a bankrupt company stride, and this Woolworth’s video has to be one of my favorites.
I am starting to miss your railroad-related videos, though. If you’re thinking about giving up on that topic completely, would like to see you at least talk about either Texas and Pacific 610, Southern 4501, or Burlington Route 4960, before you take your leave from that. All of those three relatively-famous locomotives each have a rich history just long enough for you to create a 20-30 minute long video out of them. I think you’d find 610’s history interesting, especially.
My grandma used to take me there when I was little. Best burgers and the place I got my first hamster. Thanks for the memory refresher.
Same story for me, minus the hamster. 😂
My grandpa.
It's where he would take me when he wanted a greasy burger (that he shouldn't have been eating) and a malt. He'd buy my silence with a couple new fish and a few toys
I bought a baby hamster at our Woolworth's in 1973 and called him Charlie Washington. He lived to be three years old and passed of old age in his cage. Thanks for helping me remember him.
Sounds like fun bonding times with you and your grandpa.
My dad was the regional vice president of Woolworth at the end of its time in the Mid90s. He started at the bottom and moved all the way to the top in 25 years. It’s a sad story how it ended. He loved working for Woolworth
That's really wild that F.W. Woolworth is Foot Locker. That would be like if the East India Company from the 1700's turned out to be Spencer's Gifts
The East India Company became the United States.
@2:18 "Five and dime stores, or five and ten, or five and ten cents stores." -- I'm just glad you didn't nickel and dime me on that explanation.
My mom brought me, my first Cassette from a Woolworths here in the UK
Woolworths Australia is an example of what happens when you don't trademark your name worldwide. In the early 70's Burger King discovered this when it tried to expand to Australia. It found a burger chain down there already using that name. This is why to this day Burger King in Australia operates under the name Hungry Jack's.
Hungry Jack’s sounds like such a filler name, like a burger restaurant on a billboard in a video game or something
@@Purriah Only because "Burger King" is what you're used to, "Burger King" itself is about as generic a name as there can be. Likewise "Wendys" etc.
@@PurriahKind of like Cluckin' Bell 🔔 🍗
interesting, because Hungry Jacks is a brand of pancake mix in the US
@@AKayfabe At the time Burger King was looking to expand to Australia it was owned by Pillsbury. The Australian burger chain that owned the rights to the name Burger King refused to sell the rights. Burger King (US) then grabbed the name of the pancake mix (which I assume isn't sold in Australia) and added an "S" to the end for it's Australian restaurants. Sometime in the 90's the Australian Burger King went out of business and Burger King bought the trademark. However they still use the name Hungry Jack's as it's now well established.
I miss the Woolworth stores here in the US. It was a great place to get supplies you needed (and at least a couple bonus items!) and share lunch with friends who were doing the same. Thanks for the interesting video and awakening some nice memories.
As a young teen, I'm 71 now, I bought my first album from Woolworths, The Grateful Dead in fact. I can remember the price being $3.79.
Growing up in Nashville, the name Woolworth has deep historical meaning. The Woolworth lunch counters were very popular in the 1950s and 60s, but in the south, they were also segregated so black people like myself couldn't eat there. The lunch counter sit-ins were organized by the late Rep. John Lewis and other prominent Nashville civil rights leaders. The student protestors were trained by Vanderbilt University graduate divinity student James Lawson who was expelled for his actions. He now has a Nashville high school named in his honor. The protests were organized in the basement of First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill (my church) by my pastor, Kelly Miller Smith Sr. and my mother, a Fisk student and classmate of John Lewis participated in the protests. The protests were successful and the Woolworth lunch counters (and all the other ones) were desegregated by order of Mayor Ben West when Fisk student Diane Nash directly asked the mayor on the courthouse steps to desegregate the Nashville lunch counters. He did and Nashville was the first of 69 cities in the protest movement to desegregate in 1960. Ben West has a government building in his name across the street from the Court House and the Court House plaza was renamed for Diane Nash (who is still alive) two years ago. James Lawson passed away this past June 2024. In later years, the actual Woolworth store location downtown closed and fell into disrepair but reopened as an upscale restaurant a decade ago. The restaurant concept didn't last but the building is now the Woolworth Theater and does broadway style cabaret shows for the tourists.
Lastly, when I was a teenager at my first job in Nashville's oldest mall, we had a Woolco as an anchor store (the other anchor was a J.C. Penney (called Penney's in those days). I never liked the store compared to the nicer Penney's and it closed in 1983 about the time I graduated high school.
Oh I loved the lunch counter. I ate in ours any times.
They also had discriminatory hiring practices, at one point, that lead to the federal government monitoring them, for quite awhile, to ensure compliance with EOEC rules.
Here in the UK we used to call them Wollies.
No we didn't, we called them Woolies.
@@Larry Clearly the spelling Police are out. My sincere apologies for my spelling to be incorrect. Now run along and get a life.
Of course you did. That's the most UK thing I've ever heard.
@@guyclark2975 How many spelling police officers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Too.
@@Larry Two funny! Chears!
I loved these stores when I was a child. I bought many HO trains items and model model kits. I miss those little stores. American has changed so much. Being 67 is really difficult.
Thanks, that brought back memories - I had forgotten that I used to by Revelle models and HO train supplies at Woolworths. I almost feel like I'm back there and only eleven years old again!
Fun fact, the last functioning Woolworth's lunch counter is here in my hometown of Bakersfield, California.
Wow. Is the food good?
They used to sell a great cheesecake, I think it was called Ice Box Cheesecake
I miss Woolworths. As a kid in the late 60's I would get my 45's there, eat at the lunch counter, go downstairs where the fish, birds, and hamsters were, buy paper dolls and jumping beans, and get b&w pics taken in the picture booth . I would do x mas shopping there also.
Nice to see a company evolve with the market rather than just roll over and die.
Here in Florida, USA, when I was a child in the '60's. Our Woolworth store was always called "The Dime Store."
I worked for Woolworth from 1960-63! Fabulous French fries at the lunch counter!! Miss them !!
It’s not surprising that Foot Locker is successful. The thing about shoes is that it’s not that they’re immune to online shopping, but it’s one of those products where people want to try it out in person, every shoe brand feels different and runs smaller and larger than others, Walmart and Target sell shoes, but if you want a specific brand you need to shop at a specialty store like a Foot Locker, a DSW, a Sketchers store, or a Nike store.
This video in a nutshell:
"Did you die?"
"Yes, but I lived!"
Starring Creed Bratton
I used to live in Mexico City for several years and down the street from where I lived there used to be a Woolworth store. It is no there anymore as a small shopping center now stands in its place.
Here's where things get really complicated.
In Canada, F. W. Woolworth operated Woolworth stores and Woolco stores. Both department stores lasted much longer then in the USA. In 1994, it was often believed Walmart simply took over the department stores. Not true. It is true that F. W. Woolworth sold most of the Woolco stores to Walmart in 1994, but they maintained many and converted them to a new F. W. Woolworth department store brand "The Bargain Shop!". Many years later, that brand was rebranded Red Apple. Red Apple is still technically owned and operated by F. W. Woolworth and still operates 143 stores today.
as a kid growing up in the 70's & 80's. my town had Woolworth's - Jefferson ward - k-mart & sears. about 1982 or 83 we got zayres. then later zayres was bought out by ames. by the mid 86 to 87. all was gone except for k-mart - sears. we did get Walmart's by the late 80's. the only thing left is Walmart's
Grew up not rich in Iowa and a treat was going to their lunch counter to eat. The store is long gone but not the memories!!
It's a shame because my parents talked about Woolsworth. I would have loved to check this place out.
Hey Thanks! I just found you yesterday! I always wanted to know what happened to them. It was so far from my house in Chicago. On the bus👍🏾
An amazing documentary concerning one of my favorite retail stores: Woolworths. In the last days it was open in my area, it had an arcade. They had the Real Ghostbusters machine, Pac-Man, Galaga, 1948 (Anyway a related WWII plane shot-em-up), Tekken, Terminator 2, Robocop, Mortal Kombat, and Killer Instinct... Anyway, I am impressed they are still around as Foot Locker. I still go to the local Mall's Foot Locker and the Online site. Anywho, Do you remember Montgomery Wards? We still have an old roadside "Wards" sign and their old repair shop(well is part of our historical college and still in use). I am rambling, buddy. Again and excellent showcase of Woolsworths- Man their legendary Frito-Pies, Bacon & Cheese Burgers, Fries, and Pizza. 😁👍🤜🤛🖖
Obligatory "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?" quote : AND STAY OUT OF THE WOOLSWORTH!!
We had one in the mall when I grew up. I remember looking through their toy section a lot and eating at the diner that was attached to it.
So Woolworths was Dollar General before Dollar General was Dollar General.
I remember eating the sandwich that is cut into 4 triangle pieces pointing up with my dad a long time ago at the soda bar.
I remember one store near me (when I was a kid in the 1970s). It had a lunch counter. I think my mother bought our bunk bed there. And they had a jacuzzi sized tank where you could scoop up your own goldfish to buy. And a candy counter in the middle of the store.
I liked their store back in the 80's.......... It's kind of funny that you found the parakeets in the adverts. I got a Parakeet from them when I was 10. He was cool. I named him Mario.
I am a 78 year old Boomer, my grandmother made a career at the Trenton NJ store and mother worked there until she married after WWII. Thanks for the story.
I bought a fan at Woolworths in Santa Monica. The store had the FW Woolworth name. This was back in 1985 that place is long gone now.
I was visiting Sydney Australia in 1995, and Woolworths was the place I bought my souvenirs. It was great. Then I re-visited in 2012, and wanted to go there again…was I disappointed! No souvenirs and looked like a dirty, trashy bargain basement.
In the 70’s here in Kansas City Ks, there was a Woolco near me. When it closed, a Walmart went in there. I bought a chair (! ) and some clothing there. Ate at a few Woolworth’s stores, too, one in a mall here in Kansas City and years earlier in Topeka, Ks. I miss the stores I grew up shopping in. Well, at 75, I have seen a lot of changes.
Us old folks called Woolworth's and others as a "5 & Dime"
I was under 10 in the 1950's, and I fondly remember the Woolworths in our Chicago North Center neighborhood. No air-conditioning, but i remember the huge ceiling fans hung from a very high ceiling. My aunt gave me a dollar for my birthday, and I went on a spending spree at Woolworths!
Growing up, there was a strip mall near my house that had both a Woolworth AND a Woolco. I often wondered if they were related.
Wow. That description of letting them take stuff off the shelves was pioneered by Myer in Australia too.
Great as always History, I enjoy these corporate videos as much as I do with the railroad content
You-tick-uh. Also, Woolworth's decline was even more sad than the others' as it was till classier and nicer to shop in than places like sears or Kmart.
I had some great times at Woolworth’s as a kid in the early 90’s 😊
Well I'm from Woolworth was famous for the lunch counter sit-ins during the civil rights movement of a '60s. Ironically by the time I came along Woolworths was most popular among African Americans. A lot of my early toys and clothes came from the downtown store before it closed.
Thank you for this one. (Well… ALL of them, actually.) But, I appreciated hearing about this company being responsible with their monies. How refreshing that they didn’t declare bankruptcy. How honorable! It’s very cool that they were able to morph into Foot Locker. My applause!
Woolworth is a great memory of my youth...in NJ, Boston and Florida, Definitely a go to store and fun place to shop
Used to take the bus with my grandma to Woolworth when I was little. We would shop and eat lunch there before going home. Ah, memories.
I loved our Woolworth’s in S.F. So much fun to visit and shop, especially there/their pet shop’s.
In Australia, Woolworths remains a thriving and distinct brand, operating both the widely recognized Woolworths supermarket chain and the discount department store, Big W (occasionally referred to informally as "Big Woolworths"). Both brands maintain a prominent presence in the Australian retail scene.
Furthermore, Woolworths' influence extends beyond grocery and department stores. They are also the owners of ALH and Nightcap hotels, and hold ownership of BWS and Dan Murphy's liquor stores, demonstrating their considerable footprint in the Australian market. Woolworths is undeniably a major player in the Australian retail landscape.
I have fond memories of eating in the U shaped counters inside Woolworth's here in NYC on 34th street. They served your meals in brown trays and paper cone coffee cups held inside orange cup holders. They were known for the blue plate specials. This was back in the 80's...
How do you churn out videos so fast!!? It's so good lol
Funny thing, I remember seeing a gijoe/cobra ninja storm shadow at the old Woolworth at 15 and Gratiot here in Michigan. I also remember the one at Eastgate shopping center 10 1/2 and Gratiot Ave. Then in 1982 a Kmart was built where the old Federal department store burned down.
Your timing is perfect... love your style of history telling and comedy.
Ah yes, the wonderful world of Woolies! Sadly dead in UK, but happily still alive in Australia, although any connection with the American Woolworths is dubious at best, at this present time.
The Australian company by the name never had any connection to any of the foreign companies or entities using that name. Just like how the Australian company named Target never had any connection to the US company named Target.
Great place for most of us who didn't have much money. School supplies, kitchen and home necessities, Halloween costumes, , pet supplies + fishes and birds, , toys. And a diner plus they had an automatic photo machine
When I lived in Wilkes-Barre, I lived in the Kirby Mansion with views of the river. There were plans to build a 3rd river crossing. Kirby bought the land across the river and gave it to Kingston, PA to be used as a park. At one point, there was even a small zoo.
Very informative. Thanks!
I remember when I first arrived in Germany in 2000 and saw we had one in Heidelberg. The store was always packed.
I love this channel but please work on the audio. It’s really hard to watch these videos on my TV.
The last time I was in a Woolworth's was in downtown Houston.
Of all items for sale,was a rack of WW2 Military Rifles!!😢😅😊😮
I love Woolies in Australia and South Africa. Remember them well is the US as a child. I'm glad you cleared that up.
Yeah but you cant get a grilled cheese sandwich, fries and a pickle at foot locker.
Duck walls and Walgreens and Alco remember riding a bike there to get water ballons and toys like squit guns 😂the food was great .
My grandmother, my mother, and me--all worked at Woolworth’s as young adults.
In New Zealand we had Woolworths Variety stores as a budget department store up until the 80s and Woolworths as a supermarket.
The Woolworths Variety Stores were owned by a company called LD Nathans and were rebranded as LD Nathan and later DEKA. DEKA purchased the Farmers department store chain in 1993 and in 2001 closed their DEKA stores converting some stores to Farmers. In the North Island town of Huntly a DEKA sign still remains.
With the supermarket side we had Woolworths as a supermarket and I believe this was originally independent of the Australian Woolworths. In the 2000s a merger took place between the parent company of Woolworths and Countdown supermarkets. In the 2010s all of the Woolworths supermarkets were rebranded as Countdown and adopted the same logo as Woolworths Australia, last year Woolworths began the process of rebranding all the Countdown supermarkets in NZ back to Woolworths.
Woolworth, I miss you.. down in Charleston, South Carolina.. my mother used to take me to you back in the 70s and the 80s every Friday for your famous Patty melt and milkshake❤.. This was such a treat to me. You had fabulous cooks
.. I loved it. The employees were friendly everybody knew everybody 😅would come to you and meet with family and friends the good old days🥹🌺🌺🌺 this information was informative. This information was very informative. I did not know this about Woolworth. changing the name♥️to footlocker❤
8:40 See, I've never understood the whole "driving Mom and Pop stores out of business" complaining. For one, I'm not aware of ANY companies actively doing this. Second, it's simply a part of the free market. ALL retail giants began small, they just managed to grow larger. Trying to sustain a small, non-chain retail store is really only possible if you simply don't try to directly compete with chains, but instead find a niche. Specialise in something that large chains don't. Like specific types of clothing etc.
Really liked the lunch counter at a Woolworth store in NYC in the 1960's.
Great video,interesting to see the history of Woolworths.The first one in the UK was in my home City of Liverpool in 1909.Used to like shopping at Woolies,as we used to call it.
We had a Woolco in our area, it was great and yes a little ahead of it's time. My view is the problems they had were caused by the hard economic times of the 1970's. Inflation and recession at the same time, crushed the dreams and retail sales of that decade.
Woolworth Corp. = Venator Group = Foot locker Corp.
Dollar General is basically a Woolworth store.
I used to LOOOVVEEE going to Woolworth with my mom back in the 80's and early 90's I remember going to the one down Dudldy in Roxbury in Boston. I absolutely LOVED the grilled cheeses from the lunch counter!!! My mom just passes this pass April. R.I.P Doralene McClendon!! 🫡🫡🫡❤️❤️❤️❤️
God I remember the one in my small town in Pennsylvania. Loved going as kid and looking at the trains they sold back in the 70s and the fish department they had in mine. God memories
I hope one day they will reopen 1 old Woolworth store w/ lunch counter. I'd shop there.
In the UK they had distribution arm of physical audio & visual media that was over 30% of the market share, by the first decade of this century. They went into administration in at the end of the decade, leaving many big names in retail having trouble getting CDs and DVDs, and having to employ other methods of shipping the product to their stores.
NYC area, everyone above a certain age has stories of grandma taking them for a meal at the lunch counter during a city trip.
We do have a Foot Locker in the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu, but I wish we still had a Woolworth. Too bad I'd have to travel to Germany to see one.
I miss the Woolworths especially the one we had here in downtown Cleveland at East 4th and Euclid it had the best fried chicken downtown in their cafeteria and now it is a House of Blues concert club.
I had no idea Woolworths was still a thing in Germany and it would probably blow my mind if I'd stumbled upon it during my travels. Kinda like when I visited the States a couple of years before covid and there was a Safeway supermarket near my hotel; that brand had disappeared from the UK more than a decade prior (though as it turns out, the US and UK operations split at a corporate level way back in the 80s).
6:18 that's one badass monocle! 😆🧐
I hate to be that guy, but Utica is pronounced "Yoo-tica" and Wilkes-Barre is "Wilks-berry"....
Just came here to say the same thing about how to pronounce Wilkes-Barre
Wilks Bar
@@Mrshoujo no it's Wilkes Berry
And Lancaster, Pa. is pronounced “Lankestir”
If I’m not mistaken, a Woolworth family get-away estate was/is still located on the north shore of Lake Cobbosseecontee (sp) in mid-Maine, site of wild loons (wild birds) and one of America’s oldest yacht clubs (landlocked).
Woolworth's, a dime store or 5 & dime. Back in the 50's I loved those stores. Seemed like they had a little bit of everything.
Thanks for the video.
Used to buy a ¼lb of loose broken biscuits in a paper bag in Woolies when I was a kid in the UK in the '60s. Could munch them all the way up the high st. Cheap & cheerful!
6:00 reminds me of the storefront in "Open all Hours"
[ An old British Comedy ]
Ours wasn't large but I can still.picture the layout where the toys, make up, Evening in Paris perfume, Baldy rings in the 60s, candy, aprons and housecoats on the left side, oil cloth table coverings in the back on big rolls near dishes. I used to the toys, cap guns, paddles with rubberballs, coloring books and paper dolls, dolls, doll clothes, Mexican Jumping Beans. I never got to eat there, maybe an orange drink watching it swirling th dispenser. I recall the club sandwiches and business at lunchtime and Christmas. Santa wss always on the street corner outside.
we here in East Los Angeles had a Woolworths here many years ago. they had a long long lunch counter. it always smelled like pop corn.
Just stumbled on a Woolworth in Puerto Vallarta last year. Surrounded by mom and pop stores aimed at the locals (not tourists) with nothing special on the outside, I though it was just another variety store which stole the name. But it was like a high-end Macy's inside. Quality merchandise. I was surprised. 2 floors. It was huge. Didn't look that big on the outside. UPDATE: Just watched another video on Woolworth in Mexico and it said that Woolworth sold their Mexico stores to a Mexican company in 1997.
This was incredibly entertaining! 😆🤣 But, for some of us, the REAL Woolworths that was part of our childhood and youth, 40 to 60 years ago, is GONE.
I recall going shopping at the WoolworthS in Terre Haute Indiana with my grandparents as a youngn'. I don't recall what year that location closed, but it had to be in the early 90s.
I went to my recently remodeled Walmart yesterday and noticed all the locked glass cabinets they have high
value merch locked up in. Aint that a shame? Sign of the times I guess where we customers cant be trusted
as so many shoppers are thieves. I can see the natural progression of this to where the entire store is under
lock and key. Customers will have to go to a front counter, maybe shop from a kiosk screen and go over to
pickup & find your purchases waiting for you. OR, the stores will be all locked up. You shop online & have your
purchases delivered to your house OR drive to your local store & park at the PICKUP stalls and someone will
bring your purchases out to your car. Thats the future. And AMAZON. The joy of browsing thru aisle after aisle
of merch are not long for this thieving world of ours.
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I worked for that company full time. Got a 40% discount at foot locker and champs. Worked for Woolworth Express.
In Canada we had both Woolworth and Woolco.
I HAVE GREAT MEMORIES OF WOOLWORTH IN BOSTON MATTAPAN IN THE 90"S BUT THEY CLOSED FOR YEARS NOW.
Out here we only have JG Wentworth... a personal injury lawyer/ structured settlement restructuring firm