F. W. Woolworth: From Nickels to Billions - Post-Mortar
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- Many of today's shoppers don't remember Woolworth’s, let alone any five-and-dime stores. Would you believe that it was once the biggest chain in the world, lasted over 100 years, and had a name so powerful it's still used today? Watch along to learn the history of one of America's finest retail operations.
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0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Woolworth: The Nickel Pioneer
3:17 - The 20th Century, An Unquenchable Hunger
4:54 - Brobdingnagian Proportions and Limitless Expansion
6:11 - Woolworth Slumps as U.S. Economy Booms
6:59 - Greensboro and Woolco
8:21 - The Decline of an Impossible Empire
10:40 - The Last Trial and Error
11:58 - Final Words
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Great great great video like always
Awesome Video and Love your editing! I need to step up my editing skills for sure 😊
for perspective, at the start... .05 and .10 is equal to $1.27 and $2.53 today (a cumulative increase of 2,434.56%)
Great video. I used to like visiting Woolworth's, and my aunt worked as a cashier in one.
Still remember their store brand of audio and video tapes, Silver Shadow. We used to call it Silver Shower because the tapes would shed their coating if you dared use one. Extremely poor quality, and that's what Woolworth ended up known for at the end. They weren't even the cheapest by then. Just poor goods and regular prices. Kmart was miles better at that time. Ironically, one of the last Woolworths in my area was in the same mall where one of the first prototype stores opened for what became DollarTree, perhaps the modern incarnation of the five and dime model. That prototype store occupied a small innocent space with decent goods far better than they are known for now, and far better than the Woolworth down the way. It didn't occur to me at the time to wonder how or why Woolworths had a place when this new concept prototype dollar store was better. And then Woolworths was gone.
That would kick so much ass if Woolworths came back this year!!!!!!! And I had no idea they still had stores open in Mexico, that's really cool :)
Such wonderful research behind this! I feel as if I've earned college credit. Really good.
Would love to eventually see H.L. Green. Loved that store when I was a kid. My first Star Wars figure was bought at H.L. Green.
finally a new video!
I've been to Australia and they have an (apparently unrelated) supermarket chain called Woolworth's.
Great alternative programming for me after a date. You came up in the clutch as always man.
I like this kind of information. Amazing as usual!
Awesome! Thank you. My mother's first job was at a Woolworths.
Technically speaking, the Woolworth Company still exists. They have been renamed after their most successful division - Foot Locker.
Indeed it has, in one way or another.
Great Video! We still have Woolworth in Germany, not in every City, but there’s one in my hometown and it’s been there since the late seventies. Red letters, same Font, I think they’re related. Nowadays it’s more of a dollar store.
Still great memories of my childhood buying toys with my grandma.
(edited for mistakes, English is not my first language)
Love all the research!
T.G.&Y.! I remember shopping there in the early 80s!
I have to see that new woolworth's open to believe it.
genuinely love these, you're a great presenter.
Thanks!
the brand is still doing fine in Germany too
Will you do JCPenney video please 📲👍
I’d love to. Same for Sears. My only stipulation is for them to be completely defunct before I make a video on them. Doesn’t seem like you’ll have to wait long lol
@@PostMortar In the case of Sears, that may well be true. However, JC Penney will last awhile longer, since they were literally bought by The Mall (Simon and Brookfield).
Do you that Woolworth you pay for an item they taking out your paycheck when Woolworth in broomall pa pulled out Kmart suffered we send customers to Woolworth Woolworth did the same thing friendly compation the shopping center didn't want Woolworth there some time later a dollar store moved in
To my knowledge 5 and 10 are thing of the past
Pretty much. Closest thing we have in the states is Five Below I think.