forgotten retail stores that no longer exist

[Syd]

Found this by way of explanation


IGA Express = Glorified deli (think Coles Express)

IGA = Medium format store, think a glorified Reject Shop or Red Dot. These are mainly in suburbs where there is alot of competition or regional areas

Supa IGA = full size supermarket, generally in shopping centers or areas where there isn't alot of competition and they can afford to have a wide range of stock without it all expiring

 

[Spongebob]

Stupa IGA in Summer Hill, Sydney

Aussies are frothing over this supermarket

Does your local supermarket have a walk-in cheese room, a sushi chef at hand and an Asian grocer hidden inside it?

www.news.com.au

 

[Shell]

The IGA near me reminds of a (large) milk bar. Milk bars were always a bit more expensive but closer to home. Do milk bars still exist?

I dont think they do, tbh.

They're all either IGAs, Foodworks or 7-elevens.... actually no, I can think of one milk bar near me.

 

[brucetiki]

WA is heading that way here in WA. The issue is some IGAs look like they are trying to create a shopping experience along with convenience. but others look like they are a horror film, set during the great depression.

SA's foodlands though are leading the way

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Depends on the Foodland.

Chapley's are definitely the leaders in creating an experience.

Some Romeo's are quite nice - though they have their share of depressing stores.

Then there's some truly awful Foodland's - Modbury Triangle is one of these, where it's set up in a convenience format, yet has terrible trading hours, and just underwent a 'renovation' (which took years to complete) where some of the Coles/Bilo signage from it's previous life somehow survived the 'renovation.'

 

[Hawk Dork]

I dont think they do, tbh.

They're all either IGAs, Foodworks or 7-elevens.... actually no, I can think of one milk bar near me.

there was one near my dads (was there 2 Xmases ago ) run by an actor from the John Sullivan story

The John Sullivan Story (TV Movie 1979) ⭐ 6.6 | Drama, War

1h 40m

www.imdb.com

 

[FRUMPY]

The IGA near me reminds of a (large) milk bar. Milk bars were always a bit more expensive but closer to home. Do milk bars still exist?

Na not in my area. Used to be one in most housing estates. Was always great walking down and getting some lollies when the folks had friends over

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[mikey127]

The IGA near me reminds of a (large) milk bar. Milk bars were always a bit more expensive but closer to home. Do milk bars still exist?

There is the odd one still around. It seems these days they also need to do take away food to survive.

 

[74561347]

my first job was at a ritchies iga. it was exactly as people picture it.

everything that wasnt nailed down was stolen

 

[Gough]

my first job was at a ritchies iga. it was exactly as people picture it.

everything that wasnt nailed down was stolen

Ottakars, a high street bookshop chain that no longer exists sadly had a shop in Birkenhead which is basically in Liverpool and you weren't considered a full blown member of staff until you'd chased a shoplifting scally through the mall.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I worked at Franklin No Frills in Geelong. Can relate to the shoplifting.

Sometimes I miss the department stores like Myer, Target etc. Target lasted less than 2 years here.

 

[peternorth]

IGA is heading that way here in WA. The issue is some IGAs look like they are trying to create a shopping experience along with convenience. but others look like they are a horror film, set during the great depression.

SA's foodlands though are leading the way

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Looks nice. Not too dissimilar as boutique supermarkets in Hong Kong. very fun


And on IGA, i went to king island where there was one IGA. No other supermarkets. One butcher. One post office.

 

[peternorth]

my first job was at a ritchies iga. it was exactly as people picture it.

everything that wasnt nailed down was stolen

Is that where....the community benefits?

 

[Gough]

I worked at Franklin No Frills in Geelong. Can relate to the shoplifting.

Sometimes I miss the department stores like Myer, Target etc. Target lasted less than 2 years here.

There was a gang that targeted inside the M25 bookshops and nicked travel guides, the Frommers, Lonely Planet, Let's Go, the ones that no longer exist. They had lead lined bags that would get them through the door alarms and this guy sold them at a stall on the South Bank. When they busted him he had a lock up full of thousands of them, it was a good scam for a long time.

 

[PT Bar None]

Ottakars, a high street bookshop chain that no longer exists sadly had a shop in Birkenhead which is basically in Liverpool and you weren't considered a full blown member of staff until you'd chased a shoplifting scally through the mall.

I had in my brain that you were talking Adelaide until I read Liverpool

 

[Gough]

I had in my brain that you were talking Adelaide until I read Liverpool

Not a huge difference, lot less fake Burberry here though.

 

[74561347]

Ottakars, a high street bookshop chain that no longer exists sadly had a shop in Birkenhead which is basically in Liverpool and you weren't considered a full blown member of staff until you'd chased a shoplifting scally through the mall.

oh no, the customers were ok.

the staff stole everything.

i remember when the two towers came out in the movies there was a trading card set that came out with it with something like 60-70 different cards. they came in a pack of ten which was in a display box that went out at the registers. there would have been something like 100 packs in each display box. there were 3 display boxes in each big box that got shipped out to us. we got half a pallet worth, so probably approx 30 boxes. so were talking somewhere in the region of 90,000 individual cards.

they never even made it out onto the floor. the night they came in one guy, who lived 50 metres around the corner, just wheeled them to his house with the pallet jack, up the driveway and into his garage.

shit like this happened every day.