A Melbourne shopper has taken Aussies for a walk down memory lane inside a Woolworths that seems to have been frozen in time. <\/p>\n
TikTok creator Beauie walked through the aisles of what looks like another era, with black and white checkered floors, an old school bakery, and a fruit and veg section that looks like a time capsule.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also one key feature missing that\u2019s become a staple at modern stores.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou\u2019ll not find a self-checkout here. Look at this s**t,\u201d Beauie said in the clip<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cI think this is f**king amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, there are just rows of green check-outs with smaller conveyor belts to place your weekly shop. <\/p>\n The store is located about 18km from Melbourne\u2019s CBD in Doncaster, and also features open meat fridges rather than the glass doors we often see in more modern stores today.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is all OG. You will not find another Woolworths <\/a>in Melbourne that is like this,\u201d the shopper continued.<\/p>\n The nostalgic feel is a rare relic of Aussie supermarket history, retaining much of its original footprint from when it operated under the Safeway name. <\/p>\n Safeway was the American brand that operated across Victoria, NSW and Queensland before it was acquired by Woolworths in 1985. <\/p>\n Stores in NSW and Queensland promptly rebranded; however, Safeway lingered in Victoria for over two decades until the final store was converted in 2017. <\/p>\n The blast from the past was a welcome sight on social media, with the clip of the store quickly going viral on TikTok. <\/p>\n \u201cIs it bad that I still call it Safeway?\u201d a user questioned. <\/p>\n Another wrote: \u201cThat was my local growing up and as a kid. Haven\u2019t been there in over 30 years still looks the same.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve worked for Safeway for 30 years. I miss the old-style stores; they just felt more comforting, if you get what I mean lol,\u201d a third reflected. <\/p>\n \u201cThis took me down a trip to memory lane,\u201d another commented.<\/p>\n \u201cIga castlemaine is also stuck in time, weird to see nowadays,\u201d shared another.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not the first time a store has gone viral for its nostalgia, with a Woolworths in Brisbane delighting social media users late last year.<\/p>\n The Acacia Ridge store also transported Aussies back in time with its lack of self-service counters. <\/p>\n A photo that went viral<\/a> on Reddit shows multiple staffed check-outs manned by workers, including a few designated for smaller shops. <\/p>\n \u201cI genuinely forgot that there used to be separate lines like this for 20 or less items!\u201d one person pointed out. <\/p>\n \u201cMan, that express lane is taking me back to 2007,\u201d another agreed.<\/p>\n \u201cWow. I didn\u2019t even realise there was a store that didn\u2019t have it. That is even the old-school express check-outs,\u201d said a third.<\/p>\n These days, 98 per cent of stores across Australia offer self-service checkout options. <\/p>\n \u201cAs customer buying habits have shifted, we are seeing more frequent, smaller basket sizes, and a strong customer preference for a quicker and easier self-serve checkout experience,\u201d a Woolworths spokesperson told news.com.au in December last year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know some customers prefer to be served by a team member, and that\u2019s why we always have a staffed checkout open at all times in all our supermarkets.\u201d <\/p>\n Read related topics:Melbourne<\/a>Woolworths<\/a>