If you’re a fan of bricks and mortar electronic retailing, it looks like your shopping choices are about to get a bit more limited. Woolworths (owners of, amongst other things, the Dick Smith Electronics chain) has announced the results of a review into its consumer electronics business. The verdict: Dick Smith Electronics has got to go. More »
When Woolworths launched its Woolworths Mobile month-by-month mobile service in August, it said it also planned to maintain its Everyday Mobile prepaid option. But there’s obviously been a change of heart, with Woolworths stopping new subscribers signing up to the prepaid service at the end of October and planning to switch off the service altogether at the end of March 2012. More »
Giz reader @thewilkshake noticed this fine piece of wording at a Woolies in Adelaide. Unable to stand the lack of capitalisation and odd use of apostrophes, he set about fixing it. I just hope he works there! Actually, more kudos to you, good sir, if you don’t!
Last week we learned that Woolworths, Dick Smith and Big W will soon start selling the 6-inch graphite Kindle 3. But now that Amazon has cut the price on returned/repackaged Kindle 3s to $US100 (Wi-Fi) and $US130 (3G), you have to wonder if those rumoured Android Kindles are just around the corner. Should you wait? More »
Woolies just keeps expanding like the Borg. The group now includes supermarkets, Big W, Dick Smith, and Caltex/Woolworths petrol stations — and it’s at these locations that they’ll be selling a $2 prepaid 3G SIM pack and Android phones. Powered by Optus, ‘Woolworths Mobile’ will have $29 and $49 prepaid caps, but make sure you read the fine print. More »
Self service checkouts: love them or loathe them? Yesterday Gizmodo had some fun debate around just that, and today we follow up with some tips from the pros that will help you get through the checkout faster. This is a guest post from a Woolies Insider… More »
Woolworths has decided to take the fight against trolley theft and misuse to the world of apps, by launching a web app that lets users report lost or stolen trolleys location using their smartphones. So, who’s going to use it? More »
If there’s ever been a reason to make sure your next phone has NFC built in, it’s the announcement today that Woolworths will be rolling out Visa PayWave across all its brands over the coming months. More »
As part of a legal manoeuvre worthy of Monster Cable, Apple has set its lawyers on Australia’s largest supermarket chain because their new logo is a little tad too similar to their own. More »
