No wooly wonderland (Woolworths)

Member Name: mo79

Product:	Woolworths
Date:	05/08/00 (24 review reads)
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Advantages: Useful store for general entertainment and homely stuff

Disadvantages: Made mainly for people like Mr & Mrs Barbie & Ken Doll and their plastic accessory children

Arghh! Well, not really! But seriously, Woolworths is just a kids shop really isn't it? All the branches I've been to mainly stock up on sweets, toys, baby clothes, stationery, and chart music. And some power tools and household items for the grown-ups. A bit stereotypical, but atleast it's useful for needs here and there from a family.
But they're forgetting most families aren't like Ned 'The Simpsons' Flanders. What if Bart wants to hear Slayer? He won't find that there. What if Lisa wants to stimulated by more than the John Barnes autiography?...You get the idea (I know I shouldn't bring The Simpsons into this, but bear with me). It's not a bad store, I loved it as a kid, but when you grow-up you actually find it quite insulting in a odd kind of way. There's something very frilly and happy and manufactured about the whole place, especially my local Portobello branch, that it seems almost scary and demonic behind closed doors. I don't know why, but it's like a big conspiracy!
I don't really hate Woolworths that much, as it is a useful for store for entertainment and homely stuff, but it's not for varied real people if you see what I mean. Woolworth's scares me, it's like a retail 'The Matrix'..Arghh!!

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