Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "American Businesses That FAILED Hard in other Countries..." video.

  1. Woolworths was first established in the US around 1900. Business people from both the UK and Australia visited the US and saw how well the US Woolworth's business model worked so just took the ideas back to the UK and Australia and set up equivalent variety department stores using the Woolworth name and the best of the business style. The US Woolworth's did not expect to expand beyond the US so did not trade mark the name Woolworth's. The UK one lasted into the eighties while the Australian one morphed into Big W with Woolworth's being reserved for the developing supermarket chain. Woolworths and Coles fight it out for number one supermarket chain in Australia. As I remember the story anyway.
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  2. Some bad products too . Laughable that they thought there would be a big Australian demand for snow shovels and gun safes
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