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	Woolco Dept. stores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The fate of Woolco vs. Woolworth was the virtual opposite of K Mart vs. Kresge.
		Their situation never improved over the next couple of years and at the start of the 1982 Christmas shopping season, Woolco made the sad announcement in TV and radio spots that the discount stores would call it quits after 20 years with a massive going out of business sale--one of the largest for that time.
		By January 1983, Woolco was a memory in the U.S. Woolco was more succesful in Canada, they were in the big three with Zellers and Kmart.
	www.geocities.com /zayre88/R_woolco.html (541 words)

	Woolco department stores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Woolco closed all it's U.S. stores in 1983 but the canadian Woolco stores remained in business until 1994.
		Most of the Woolco stores were very old and outdated when they closed.
		More than 9 years after the closing, at least one Woolco trailer is still on the road....
	www.geocities.com /zayre88/R_woolc.html (417 words)

	OldsCool - My Blogsite » (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Apparently Woolco was Woolworth's response to Kmart, Target and Walmart who all opened their first stores in 1962.
		It always amazes me how things that are so old just die out, because of some wrong desicions made at some point or random things that happened at the wrong time/place that lead to the demise of one and the life of another.
		The Woolco stores were quite big but not enough to fit the Wal-Mart format anymore.
	www.outrightolds.com /seankerr/index.php?itemid=5 (736 words)

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		Lessor, however, had an option to cancel the lease agreement in case of Woolco's discontinuance.
		Woolco in April 1983 exercised its second and third
		Woolco based on SCOA's sales, since the lease does not support such a conclusion.
	www.icsc.org /srch/cases/0000344C.html (619 words)

	Woolco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woolco was the eventual winner with customers, and the Worth Mart stores were folded into Woolco's store base by the 1970s.
		The typical Woolco store size was well over 100,000 square feet, which was quite large for a discount store of that era, and many of its departments were leased to third-party operators, a common practice among early discounters.
		Woolco ceased operations in the United States in 1983.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woolco (646 words)

	Canadian division ready for Wal-Mart face-off - Kmart Canada - Kmart Power Merchandising Discount Store News - Find ...
		The proposed acquisition of 120 of the 142 Woolco units in Canada By Wal-Mart is expected to be finalized next month, enabling Wal-Mart to create a chain with essentially the same market positioning and size as Kmart Canada.
		While Woolco was technically a competitor of Kmart, it certainly was not very competitive Its lengthy history of comparable store sales losses that led to its sale to Wal-Mart bears that out.
		Woolco's parent, Woolworth, Corp., has long identified Canada's extended recession as a reason for the weakness of its Woolco stores.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n4_v33/ai_14852474 (815 words)

	F.W. Woolworth Co. @ streetcarmike.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Woolco was the discount department store branch of the company, founded about 1962 to compete with Kresge's Kmart.
		We had Woolco stores all over the New Orleans area, including Slidell (pictured in a Christmas season between 1977 and 1980) and Hammond.
		He told me that Woolco was only 2% of Woolworth's holdings, so they did not lose money in closing down.
	www.streetcarmike.com /woolworth.html (939 words)

	Woolco Head Resigns Post - New York Times
		Bruce Allbright, chairman of the soon-to-be-closed Woolco division of the F.W. Woolworth Company, has resigned as an officer and director of the nation's fourth-largest retailer to return to a position with the Dayton-Hudson Corporation, Woolworth announced yesterday.
		Allbright was president of the Target Stores division of Dayton-Hudson, the seventh-largest retailer, when he was hired by Woolworth last January to try to reorganize its money-losing chain of Woolco discount stores.
		Woolworth said Woolco's losses widened this year as a result of a worsening economy, and in September announced it was closing all 336 stores early in 1983.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E4D91E39F93AA35751C1A964948260 (104 words)

	Danny in Colorado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That fall, while working at Woolco, I also enrolled in a theatre class at El Paso County Community College (later to change its name to Pikes Peak Community College).
		While still working at Woolco, I also got a job working on campus in the bookstore.
		Between Woolco and the bookstore, I was working 52 hours a week and going to college full time.
	web.uccs.edu /dbristol/danny_in_colorado.htm (431 words)

	Colorado cont. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For the first 2 years of college I continued to work at Woolco and the bookstore.
		With the new position, I was able to quit working at Woolco and reduce my total hours working per week down to 35 hours.
		Going to college at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was a perfect choice for me at that time, (even though I picked the school by accident.) The campus was part of the CU system, which consist of the main campus in Boulder, Colorado and 2 campuses in Denver, one being the Medical Center.
	web.uccs.edu /dbristol/colorado_cont_.htm (455 words)

	Neighborhoodtimes: Woolco staffers recall exciting start, sad end
		ST. PETERSBURG - To mark the day when they learned their store was closing, 38 Woolco department store employees reunited Saturday under a Fossil Park picnic shelter to tell stories, study scrapbooks and rekindle camaraderie.
		On Sept. 25, 1982, Woolworth announced the closing of its 336 Woolcos.
		When the Gateway Woolco closed on Jan. 31, 1983, about 90 employees were laid off.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/29/Neighborhoodtimes/Woolco_staffers_recal.shtml (639 words)

	[cdnfolk] Song and Suggestion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Buddy and the Boys released it on their first outing "Buddy", Both Max and Leon were founders of the band.
		The song was Obviously written when their was still Woolco, Remember then.
		Anyway, with the Woolcos long gone, I'm wondering if anyone can provide me with all the lyrics - seems like a song that should be sung at our Song Circle sometime.
	www.coolname.com /pipermail/cdnfolk-mirror/2001-June/001706.html (539 words)

	Woolco Foods Inc.
		Woolco Foods, is a premier broad-line foodservice distributor that has been providing the finest restaurants, hotels, caterers, and institutions in the NY/NJ Metro area with exemplary service and top quality name-brand merchandise for over 20 years.
		We offer a wide range of groceries, produce, dairy, meat, poultry, paper goods, cleaning supplies, specialty items, and anything else the foodservice industry might require.
		In an ongoing effort to service our customers' better, Woolco Foods has recently relocated from our lower Manhattan residence of over 20 years, to a much larger and more modern facility in Jersey City, New Jersey.
	www.woolcofoods.com (188 words)

	How Did Wal-Mart Get Started?
		One called Kmart was started in Garden City, Michigan, another called Target was started in Minneapolis, another from Woolworth, the big name in retailing at the time, called Woolco was started, and the final one in rural Rogers, Arkansas, called Wal-Mart.
		Thirty years later, Woolco had met its demise and one of the other two was the largest retailer in the country.
		that the one to fold up would be Woolco, and that the biggest, most profitable one would be the one down in Arkansas.
	asms.k12.ar.us /armem/clark/start.htm (588 words)

	FOOD TECH COMPLETES WOOLCO FOODS RENOVATION
		The 32,000 SF facility had been vacant for many years and a new refrigeration system, along with racking, dock equipment, floor repairs and office renovations, were required within an extremely compressed schedule.
		“We were pleased at how smoothly the project evolved,” says Woolco President Robert Krivelin, describing the overhaul.
		With offices in MA, CT, NJ and CA, Food Tech (www.foodtechstructures.com) specializes in the design and construction of food process and distribution facilities nationwide.
	www.foodtechstructures.com /news-2004-11-15.htm (123 words)

	WOMEN'S VINTAGE WOOLCO CARDIGAN SWEATER 34"-36" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Only remnants of a tag were found along one of the side seams.
		Pink, purple and blue accents have been worked into the design, adding a great touch to this cute piece.
		Woolco was a dept. store (a division of Woolworth) which went out of business in the US in 1982.
	www.vintagetreasuresgalore.com /SWEATERS/SWT-2_1.html (185 words)

	UrbanPlanet.org > Greenville Mall
		Just about every Woolco I've seen was a variation of a standard 115,000 sf box with a central entrance and a garden center/auto center at one end.
		Woolco was part of the old F.W. Woolworth chain, which was still pretty hot at the time, so they had their choice of co-anchors usually.
		I'm not sure about Tryon Mall or Bell Tower Mall specifically, but it was a safe bet you'd find a Woolco next to the dominant grocery store in town, usually in a small enclosed mall of some sort.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t8409-250.html (5925 words)

	Wool - Uncyclopedia
		The task of marketing the "have you any wool, yes ma'am yes sir three bags full" concept went to F. Woolworth, the five-and-dime store lad of Utica NY.
		His initial approach, conceived while watering his flock in Watertown, was to establish the Woolco network: dedicated to marketing by pulling the wool over the eyes of the Canadian and American public.
		It worked well for a while, eventually unravelling at the hands of evil union-busting Mall-Wart in the 1990s.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Wool (323 words)

	On Balance - Vol 7, Num 1
		For many Canadians, especially those who haven't zipped across the border to shop in Wal-Mart stores in the U.S., media reports of the Woolco buyout may have been the first they heard of the retail chain.
		The journalistic preoccupation with negativity was clearly demonstrated in the Woolco buyout story.
		Not only was Wal-Mart characterized as cut-throat and ruthless, but Canadian retailers were given little credit for their attempts in the past few years to become more efficient.
	oldfraser.lexi.net /publications/onbalance/1994/7-1 (3718 words)

	People still store memories of Kmart - Roanoke.com
		For that, we can turn to one of the Woolco employees who called in.
		James Ballard, a former Woolco manager, said the 24th Street Kmart was already open when he helped open the first Roanoke Woolco in 1966.
		That Woolco was at Crossroads, in a building that eventually became home to -- guess what!
	www.roanoke.com /columnists/angleberger/wb/86794 (657 words)

	TIME.com: Deserted Store -- Jan. 24, 1983 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Then Bruce Allbright, 54, whom Gibbons had hired just one year earlier to run Woolco and the U.S. Woolworth stores, returned to Dayton Hudson Corp. Finally, the upheaval at Woolworth reached a climax last week when its highly regarded president, Richard Anderson, 47, also walked out the door.
		The company shut the last of its 336 Woolco outlets last weekend, and is finally rid of a substantial profit drain.
		The slimmed-down firm must now decide whether it intends to expand in new ways or remain at the same old stand.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,950840,00.html (599 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Wal-Mart
		It is also the largest retail employer in the world, with more than 1.5 million workers, most of them in the U.S. But Wal-Mart also has operations in Canada, Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, South Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.
		The company first moved into Canada in 1994, buying 122 Woolco stores.
		Wal-Mart moves into Canada with the purchase of 122 Woolco stores.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/walmart (502 words)

	Retail Wholesale & Department Store Union Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Wal-Mart came to Canada through a buy-out of Woolco stores across the country.
		Those Woolco stores that were under UFCW contracts were not purchased.
		Instead, they were closed, throwing hundreds well paid union members out of work.
	www.rwdsu.ca /walmart.html (2870 words)

	Repackaging big boxes - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
		After Woolworth Corp.'s Woolco store pulled the plug on the south side of Atlanta on Stewart Avenue in 1993, Taylor, president of The HT Group real estate in Atlanta, said he pretty rapidly refilled a space that may have otherwise remained empty.
		The savior: Run ' Shoot Athletic Center, a basketball-themed gym with another location in Washington, D.C. "The thing that made that work as I understand it...
		is Woolco required higher ceilings than other [big-box retailers] of that day," Taylor said.
	www.bizjournals.com /atlanta/stories/2000/11/06/focus1.html (533 words)

	[cdnfolk] Woolco Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This Woolco song was played 10-05-01 This Morning on CBC Radio 1.
		> I got the Workin' at the Woolco Manager Trainee Blues." > > I think this might be a Joe Hall song?
		Anyway, with the Woolcos long > gone, I'm wondering if anyone can provide me with all the lyrics - seems > like a song that should be sung at our Song Circle sometime.
	www.coolname.com /pipermail/cdnfolk-mirror/2001-June/001695.html (207 words)

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