Ethicks
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I don't think that is true at all, people will go to Aldi for a few items but we've all heard them say you can't get everything at Aldi so the next place they venture is Woolworths. Long term Woolworths will out perform, even the shopping centre I go to now has an Aldi but still Woolworths is always packed with people. This is the case in my town also, Aldi has been open for years which didn't impact Woolworths.. heck they even opened a second store.Aldi will definitely impact you guys alot. Maybe not first 2 weeks but once people find out where it is and starts to get traction, you will feel it. I reliefed for fairly busy city store whose sales where $1.4mil a week, and it dropped to just under a mil because aldis was just around the corner. To add insult to injury, shoppers there will go to woolies, taking our trolleys and using them at aldi cause we dont have the coin security mechanism on ours lol (stupid stupid)
With an Aldi right next door to your Woolworths.. People will go to Aldi then get the rest of their stuff at Woolworths.