Woolco - Action Days (1980)

Take action on a large, energy-efficient freezer.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Woolco
• Canada
• commercial
• 1980
• Action
• Days
• sale
• discount
• store
• freezer
• large
• capacity
• department
• shopping
• shop
• Brentwood

[Sheri451]

We had a Woolco in my town, they had everything you could want. I remember the snack bar, they sold popcorn, and hot dogs. I remember sharing my popcorn with a little boy in front of me at the checkout stand. But all the Woolco's and Woolworths are now gone, Thanks to shitty WalMart.

[WiZSOC]

I used to work at Woolco in the Southland Mall in Regina, Saskatchewan, CANADA. I was a sales associate in the cameras, records & computers department. I used to sell Commodore 64s and Colecovisions. I remember when the 45 of "We Are The World" came in. We got 30 copies and they sold out in less than an hour. I was employee #1437. Oh, to be young and in retail sales again...

[MattJFisher]

@realliveclaude Like the two stores in St. John's, NL. Or the one in Orleans (east of Ottawa). Or in Halifax or Saskatoon. All because Crap-Mart wants to build larger stores and make them into Stupidcenters.

[MattJFisher]

@KlickyKat and ice cream too.

[Diskoboy1974]

Those freezers were so plentiful in the early 80's, and ended up getting damn near banned becasue little kids kept playing in them, and suffocating.

But I remember shopping at Woolco, the week before they closed. I got a Coleco Donkey Kong table top game, A GI Joe Figure (Ranger), and a Pac-Man Fever cassette for about $15.

I think I still have that Pac-Man Fever tape.

[cornwallthedragon]

I miss $1.44 days. Woolco along with Eatons and Simpsons were my three favourite department stores to go to.

[toastichedu]

Great childhood memories shopping at Woolco

[CelesteK]

Yeah. So much for the "Canadian" institution.  I have a lot of good memories of shopping at Woolco.

[realliveclaude]

Woolco was a cool store to shop at the time. With the downfall of Woolworth's (another one which mark my childhood), Wal-Mart took over... However now, not too many original Woolco stores stand these days...

[CelesteK]

Yeah especially for such an ugly looking appliance.