Stingy bastards.
They'd likely get more than 79000 × $30 of marketing 'captial' for just saying "oops, our mistake, but your benefit" and honouring it.
And chalk it up to not training your marketing team on how to use excel.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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I was thinking about this. And under the rule of "if doesn't matter what they are saying about you as long as they're talking about you", perhaps the marketing power is higher to deny it and make front page? It wouldn't have been as big of a big news story if they had just paid it.
Wow… that’s amazing! I thought Woolworths had collapsed in the 80s!
I don't think this Woolworths is related to the American Woolworth's. They seem to have different histories. This is an Australian company that is one of the duopoly of supermarkets in NZ.
Originally it was literally a spoof of the US Woolworth's called Walworth's, then they realised under Aus law they could just use the original name
That's why In-N-Out does pop-ups in Aus for one day every few years, to protect their trademark. And also relates to why Hungry Jack's is just a Burger King franchise
No it wasn't.
Although you do make a compelling argument, I found a source that supports that they were originally registered under the name Wallworths. To be fair, it looks like they changed the name to Woolworths before their first store opened, so the general public would never have known them as Wallworths.