Woolworths Ltd store visits

Our store visit reports feature floor plans, store photos and full commentary written by our team of international retail experts. Dozens of reports are made every year of stores that feature new concepts in food and grocery retail.

Videos

18/12/2020
See inside our pick for December’s store of the month, Woolworths Metro, Sydney, Australia. We look at how the retailer is making a marked shift towards locally-sourced neighbourhood supermarket with a full in-house bakery and a range specifically designed to meet needs of the neighbourhood.

Presentations

25/04/2023
Explore how Woolworths is aligned to our global trends on reducing fresh food waste, energy reduction, packaging efficiency and responsible community retailing.
13/07/2020
We spent a morning with the Woolworths Metro team in Sydney in early 2020 visiting its flagship Pitt St Metro store, plus its new and first MetroGo trial store in Strawberry Hills – at just 37 sq m, the smallest store the retailer operates.
18/06/2020
This store is Woolworths most sustainable store to date, bringing together all of its efforts under one roof. It also features the latest look and feel of its supermarket format.
09/08/2017
The best stores we've visited over the last year.
03/07/2017
Woolworths at Warringah Mall was one of the retailer’s first stores to showcase its next generation format, it provides a strong ‘market style’ fresh food offer and puts healthy living front and centre.
31/10/2016
Australian shopping habits are changing with a growing demand for convenient solutions. Woolworths Metro at Melbourne’s Central station is one of the retailer’s new urban convenience stores that it has been opening to try and take advantage of this trend.
29/09/2015

Woolworths Double Bay highlights how the retailer is looking to flex its offer to local needs, with a premium format that delivers specialist ranges and features that differentiate it from the competition.

12/12/2013

Woolloomooloo is one of four new urban concept stores that Woolworths has launched across Australia in 2013. We visited the store to examine the initiatives that make this such an innovative format and to see how the retailer is aiming to maximise the store's appeal in this inner urban location.