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Wonder days of Woolies over as iconic high street store collapses

When the doors to the first Woolworths store opened in New York in 1879, it was the Victorian equivalent of the £1 shop, selling everything for just five cents.

MARTIN WILLIAMS and WILLIAM TINNING

When the doors to the first Woolworths store opened in New York in 1879, it was the Victorian equivalent of the £1 shop, selling everything for just five cents.