Konted's Make My Day 2: caroline springs

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Woolworths Is Number One

Woolworths Is Number One

Jeck G. is a long-time resident of Caroline Springs, a suburb of Greater Melbourne. She buys fresh apples, oranges and other fruits in season at Woolworths. And there are Woolworths outlets almost everywhere. The apples are really crisp and the oranges are citrus-y and sweet. Buying other grocery items, she gets discount coupons which she uses in refilling at a caltex petrol station near Woolworths.

Starting as a small store in Sydney in 1924, Woolworths has expanded to more than 900 outlets throughout Australia. It is now the most popular grocery store. It has a total manpower of 190,000, providing regular employment to residents of almost every town in the whole of Australia. In the states of Victoria, New South Wales, Adelaide and Western Australia, there are countless Woolworths stores.

Woolworths outlets are owned and managed by Woolworths Limited. The company has a total revenue of $54.3 billion. Woolworths boasts of being the first store to use cash register machines that issue official receipts. While it took its name from the popular F.W. Woolworths in the USA, it is not connected or related to it. Woolworths is popularly known as "Woolies".

Jeck buys her Nutella at Woolworths. She also buys Skippy Peanut Butter, Uncle Toby's Cereal, Devondale Fresh Milk, Berri Apple Juice, Hormel Luncheon Meat, Carte Noire Coffe, Apple Juice and more. And she intends to continue buying at Woolworths. For Woolworths is good in attracting buyers with their promotional gimmicks and other customer incentives. And the store boasts of fresh food items. For which the people of Woolworths are aptly called " the fresh food people". Woolworths continues to be number one.

- Konted

Woolworths at Watergardens Shopping Center

Red apples are available year round.

One of several apple varieties

Cavendish bananas

Citrus-y and sweet

Veggies are fast-moving items.

All kinds of pepper available at Woolworths

Freshness is maintained through the right room temperature.

Sweet watermelons

Lindt's crunchy nougats

Snickers and Mars chocolates

Lindor by Lindt Master Chocolatier

Tim Tam chocolates

So good

In plastic bottles

Juice drinks

Woolworths' own Beer, Wine and Spirits store

Jack Daniel's is America's highest selling whiskey.

Special offer

Also selling fresh flowers

Woolworths outlets are almost everywhere.

Woolworths at Coves which is the principal town of Phillip Island

Woolworths at Cowes

Fund raising project of Woolworths

Woolworths/Caltex Petrol station at Cowes. For every purchase of Woolworths products, customer gets discount.

Woolworths outlet right at the petrol station

New carts

Woolworths at Mordialloc, a suburb of Greater Melbourne

Woolworths at Pakenham, a suburb 40 kilometers away from Melbourne city proper.

Woolworths at Woodgrove shopping center in Melton

At Coburns commercial center

Woolworths' trailer unloads at Coburns shopping center

Woolworth/Caltex station at Melton

At QV Mall along Swanston Street at the city proper

Another worthwhile project of Woolworths

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Sunday, 22 September 2013

One Winter Night In Caroline Springs

Sunset at Caroline Springs

One Winter Night In Caroline Springs

*for the kids

It was a chilly winter night. I got off at the bus stop near Taylors Hill and crossed the main street to North Gate Village. With the wind blowing strong, I put on the hood of my jacket. In a few minutes, I was trying to open the main door with the silver key but it would not open. No one was inside the house. I waited for a home companion to arrive but, half an hour later, I was still out there in the cold. Temperature was down to 10 degrees. It was too quiet then in Caroline Springs.

Caroline Springs is a suburb of Greater Melbourne. It occupies a generally flat land where houses have started sprouting sometime in the early 2000. These are beautiful houses with modern designs. There are reserves and playgrounds in key areas. Caroline Springs is under the jurisdiction of the Shire of Melton.

From the City proper of Melbourne, Caroline Springs is only about 20 minutes by train. From Flinders Street Station, you take the train bound for Sydenham with its terminal at the Watergardens Shopping Center. From there, you ride the bus to Caroline Springs. It is only a few minutes away. There is no traffic buildup in the area.

There was one option left to me to get inside the house. And that was to scale the fence and squeeze past through the sliding window. But I was thinking that the alarm system was too sensitive that any slight, unusual movement would trigger the alarm, and consequently, alarm the neighbors who would then call the police.

What I did was to walk back to the bus stop and flag down the Westrans bus. Inside, it was warmer. I was back to my comfort zone. I took the seat nearest the Vietnamese driver as the bus made two round trips. It served as my temporary refuge from the biting cold outside.

On the third and final trip, I got off at Caroline Springs. There were now lights inside and around the house. I called everyone's attention. I was emoting. While they were watching, I tried again the key, but this time, it worked !! I was puzzled. Everyone was laughing. I looked like a fool. That was one winter night in Caroline Springs. *:"> blushing