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, the name changed to "Fleming's Fabulous Food Stores" and there were 100 stores. In June 1960, Jim Fleming Jr. and his father sold their 55 Flemings stores to

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for $10 million. In the early 1970s, Jim Fleming Jr. acquired Warman's Stores in New South Wales. Fleming gave it a new name,

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, and pushed it into the same discount end of the grocery retailing business as Flemings. The final "Flemings Food Stores" logo was launched in the early 1990

From the late 1990s, Flemings stores were internally rebranded to Woolworths Supermarkets, Woolworths featuring the same marketing materials and the same home brand products. The external branding didn't change until the late 2000s. Some Flemings stores closed and the remaining were rebranded as Woolworths or Woolworths Metro. The last of these were the

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store which was refurbished and rebranded Woolworths in late 2009. Umina Beach on the Central Coast closed on 17 June 2010 and was replaced by a Woolworths, opposite the old Flemings store. The

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store was rebadged as a Woolworths Metro store in 2017. The last Flemings store in

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closed on 19 May 2020 and was replaced by a Woolworths Metro.

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{{Woolworths Defunct supermarkets of Australia Retail companies established in 1930 Retail companies disestablished in 2020 Woolworths Group (Australia) Australian grocers Australian companies established in 1930 Australian companies disestablished in 2020

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