Woolco

[Retrodude1985]

I remember that commercial from ITV edmonton way back in 1988 (ahh the memories) but I don't think I've been there.

[baarbear]

I remember these stores.  "Woolco want's to be..your fav-o-rite stroooooe"

[6452ss]

i miss woolco

[bertfreez]

woolco is so classic!!.....big ups to all the canadian 80s kids

[6452ss]

very catchy

[PunisherPayne]

Holy shit, i was just a tot when this store existed.. yet i remember it so clearly.

[crlaw75]

I remember the Strawberry Street cafeteria. We went there first for really good ice cream.

[CelesteK]

Me too. I always went there for the burgers and fries. They were always good after a day of shopping. :)

[landrykkb]

@crlaw75 We had one in our Sydney River location,while most had the Red Grille.They were pretty much the same thing.

[madx80h]

Oh snap, I used to have that toy at 0:22 with the rings.. awesome

[andellzor]

@madx80h Everyone had those, lol, it is standard baby toys...

[zachmisfitsrule]

i remembewr woolco not what it looked like insid its all wal mart now every woolco red gril changed to mc donalds when they became wal marts

[superbuick]

Woolco ads in Canada were way better than in the US. Ours had that dork singing "we want to beeeeee your favorite stooooore." No wonder they went out of business down here.

[anderalex129]

@superbuick woolco canada closed down in '95 when WAL-MART bought it out. DAMN U WALMART!!!

[luxlisbon85]

I remember every word of this :/

[xlibman]

awesome. I miss Woolco. The store looked rather ok over here but they had much more stuff than Zellers.

[CelesteK]

Starting now

Starting so strong

Woolco price is

just the begining

Step on in

Look us over

Woolco price is

just the begining

[CelesteK]

Little things that

give you such satisfaction

Woolco

Woolco you ain't seen

nothing yet

Starting now

At Woolco

Look us over

Woolco price is

just the begining.

[MattJFisher]

I'm from St. John's, NL. We used to have three Woolco stores. I'm now pissed that Wal-Mart has moved into the former Woolco stores at the Avalon Mall and the Village Shopping Centre (although since I moved to Ottawa, they relocated both of 'em to new big box stores, with the one at the Village having moved to Mount Pearl).

The third of these was the large one at Water St. downtown. I liked this one, with an escalator. Can you believe they had a bakery there? I miss Woolco.

[CelesteK]

Oh I am too. I was born in Toronto, Ontario and I've been to the Woolco stores at the Dufferin Mall and the one that they had in Peterborough. I think there was one in Oakville as well. They also had one in Pickering.

I'm more pissed off than you are because Woolco was quite an institution of sorts. I miss having it here because that's where I got some of the Gobots toys for my brother and me.

[landrykkb]

@MattJFisher I remember being in that Water Street location on a trip to St.John's,Newfoundland as a kid.

[Tenspeeder]

Back when CITY-TV was good....

[betamin74]

Excellent music. I remerber the french version used here in Quebec.

[Keaster2000]

Who doesn't remember getting lost in the toy department...and Monday's are $1.44 days!

[CelesteK]

I never got lost in the Woolco toy department.

The Woolco store at the Dufferin mall in Toronto had a huge toy department in the basement that I affectionately referred to as the Dungeon. We took a moving stair way downstairs to the toy department with our mother. Then we picked out the toys we wanted and that was it.