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Woolworths (ASX:WOW) opens new Sydney store customers can’t go to – The Motley Fool Australia
Supermarket giant Woolworths launches its biggest ever ‘dark store’ to create 900 new jobs and cater for massive grocery delivery demand.
Woolworths Group Ltd (ASX: WOW) has opened its biggest-ever ‘dark store’, just in time to cater for massive Christmas demand.
But customers will not be allowed in, as the western Sydney facility is purely dedicated to fulfilling online orders.
The Lidcombe store is 15,000 square metres, which is roughly 4 times the size of a normal full-service supermarket (or 12 Olympic-sized swimming pools, as Woolworths likes to say).
The year of COVID-19 has seen an explosion in electronic grocery shopping….
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