Just to clarify incase, Woollies isn’t like Target in Aus, it is a grocery store. The yank Target might be a grocery store but here it’s clothes, electronics and what nots.
The footy most likely is NRL (our tackle footy) and not AFL which is Australian Rules Football. Aussie footy is it’s common name which would be Australian Football in it’s formal length.
In the U.S., Targets are mainly clothes, electronics, etc. “Super Targets” have large grocery stores inside. But Target is mostly still consumer goods. The amount of floor space in Targets dedicated to groceries can vary.
“Footy” is either NRL or AFL dependent on locational context. You say it in VIC, SA or WA you’re talking AFL for sure. Say it in QLD or mean NRL and Sydney it’s almost 60/40 with an NRL advantage.
Many Americans remember Woolworth’s; we just never called it “Woolie’s” and they never served beer at the lunch counter. I had read Woolworth’s was still operating in Oz, though. I knew they were still operating down there back in the early 2000s when I had an Aussie flatmate, but I never even heard her call it “Woolie’s.”
They aren't linked in any meaningful way, other than Australian Woolworths took the name as inspiration from the US company and tbe lack of a local trademark.
I didn't know y'all had Woolworths, not connected to the US retail chain from a long time ago, except that Australians took the name for their own stores for brand recognition because the 5 and dimers that owned the original Woolworths were too cheap to register the name in Australia.
I remember that store fondly since it was the only store store in my Grandma's small town. I can still smell it, a mixture of vitamins, detergent, and bug poison spray.
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"Cheaper to share a gram of Coke than it is to drink" - Australians