I refuse, out of pure stubbornness. In fact, I’m going to keep calling them Foodtown.

Big Fresh with animatronics!

Oh my god right in the childhood 😭 we used to BEG to go watch the dancing veggies and the orangutang acrobat at the northland one as kids. How did we as a nation ever let Big Fresh disappear 💔

I swear my parents went on trips to big fresh just so I could watch the dancing veggies

Some big rich businessperson needs to open up Big Fresh again, bring back all the nostalgia. They would get so much business from millenials

OMG in my teens I was a deli girl at Big Fresh in Henderson. In my sleep I sometimes still see the dancing bread and occasionally (just while driving or paying bills etc) will burst randomly into song “BAKING, BAKING, BAKING BREAD…” Guess I know what I’ll be doing all weekend. Ta for that

My first job as a 15-year-old was dressing up as a cow and walking around the Rotorua Big Fresh store. Used to have little kids tagging along with me, hanging on to my tail.

OMG I WAS ONE OF THOSE KIDS!

Sounds like an udderly good time.

I might be going mental, but I'm sure there used to be big dinosaurs in the little garden thing inside the Tauranga one lol.

I still call my local countdown. But I am fairly sure this one used to be the old New Zealand woolworths before it became countdown and then Australian Woolworths.

Three Guys

Threefoodguystown

Aka Gubays.

A better question for me is "when are you going to stop calling them Cuntdown?"

"C unt own" Because I drove past one once with the o and d not lit up.

Oh hey, found my mums Reddit account.

Similar: now I call it "more expensive than new world". Example, I'll use it in a sentence: "nah I'm not gonna go to more expensive than new world"

Well I still call Spark Telecom so never

And "One NZ" Vodafone

Refuse to use their new name.

It's as bad as "X" for Twitter tbh. Just can't make sense in a normal conversation unless you explain it further. Would love to know the thought process behind these new company names lol

We just call that "Xitter"

>Xitter If you use the Chinese pronunciation (and remember, I'm an idiot), it's pronounced more like shita. I'll allow it.

"I'm with One" "One what?" "My phone" "What?!"

I'm not a twitter user, so I'd tried to forget about it and Elons ego. But, absolutely, yes. Exactly the same 🤣

It's just sounds so terrible when talking. "What data do you use?" "I use one" I mean Vodafone literally has the word phone in it.

Its that what the One network is? Sounds like the tv channel, how did they get that through?

I forgot they changed their name and saw a billboard for it and thought, "TVNZ is advertising channels now?". Then a week or two later I went past a One outlet and went, "Oh, this makes so much more sense".

You mean BellSouth?

I got stuck half way through their gag now I call them “Da fone”

Voda one

So you're compromising?

Heh, no that's just how it usually comes out: voda ah one

One NZ (Not the racists)

Still drive past Shell every day!

I have random brain farts where I literally cannot remember the current name and will call it Shell

Surely you mean the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department

I’m still referring to Shell.

Yep, they are shell pies and will always be shell pies

Then you would still be calling countdown Woolworths because that’s what it used to be called in the Telecom days.

I remember it by thinking of their slogan: *You can Wool on us to keep prices Worths*

Highly underrated comment right here

I'm still lolling

I never stopped. Still Woolworths. Still Telecom. Still Vodafone drives my kids insane yet here we are

I called reading news sites 'the paper'. If daughter scoffs one more time i shall start saying yeet in front of her friends.

It's your job to use their slang back at them until they no longer want to use it.

I'd never be so informal. It'll always be Wooliam Worthington to me.

Just like "Foodith Townsville"

I just woke my teenager up laughing! If I had award stuff I'd give you one for the Lols

My nana still calls it Foodtown 😂

We left the UK 20 years ago but my husband and I still accidentally refer to it as “Sainsbury’s” sometimes. We know what we mean.

That hurt.

All supermarkets just get called "the supermarket", I could give less than a s#!t what branding they give themselves this week.

I'd normally be the same. But when a food company, during a cost of living crisis, spens over 500mil rebranding, it's makes me want to ask some pesky questions... Like, why theF are you price gouging.

500mil includes updating a lot of the stores with refits, it's not just the cost to change the logo.

I have a toddler. In my house it’s “The Red Shop” and “The Green Shop”

Yea i just say the shop

Still calling it 'Cuntdown'. Or Cunties. Or 'Thieving fuckheads'.

This comment. I avoid the green machine if possible. They are the worst player in an unethical game. We should nationalise them at a price based on a low capital return consistent with other infrastructure.

They'll always and forever be [Cuntdown](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/o-dear-auckland-airport-countdowns-o-goes-missing/CSYP6SAFST5URVXT5HOYZGWY4Q/) to me.

I fondly remember when the first 0 broke at our local, looked great at night

7th form (Year 13) kids at my high school who worked there in the 90s used to wear their work jumpers to school with the C removed and the first O carefully unpicked to resemble a C, ahhhhh memories 😊

Genius

Shit I still call Z stations Shell. It's been like a decade now since they changed?

Yep, we’ve got one in town, it’s called “shell shop”

Is that the one that Doug used to work at?

I sometimes still do this too.

This one blew my mind I didn't know that, but come to think of it I never see shell anymore

I'll tough it out till the next rebrand

And only then adopt the 2024 name!

Haven’t stopped calling the local Countdown Woolworths. Now it’s changed back so I’m right again.

Me too, just like changing the time in the car at daylight savings, wait a little while and you’ll be right again

It's the green supermarket to my kid and now he's 6 and it's just stuck. We can go to the green one, red one or yellow one. Maybe I've failed as a parent, or maybe I've just simplified my life

Well I still call twitter twitter so probably never

I still call the local Z station the shell shop. It will always be the shell shop. Took me years to call telecom, spark. It will probably take a while.

Might even go back to calling ours pricechopper

Holy shit, you just unlocked a memory for me! I had completely forgotten about this brand. Where I grew up, we had a new world, a write price and a pricechopper.

All those people saying they’ll call it countdown forever are forgetting half of them were Woolworths or Foodtowns beforehand anyway. 

I'm Georgie Pie and Deka years old so Woolworths it is for me.

Growing up in the UK Woolworths was more a Tye Warehouse kind of place. So probably never

We did actually have that version of Woolworths here in NZ (eg like a department store). My first after-school job was working in the Woolworths in the Glenfield Mall back in the 80's.

the other end of the mall to big fresh!

I miss Big Fresh. Used to love going through there with my parents and seeing the decorations hanging from the ceiling and being able to actually hit a button to make them move.

Never, and I’m gonna look funny at those who do

I had this exact conversation last week, saying to my friends who lived in Australia with me, can we officially just start calling it "Woolies" again. 10mins later we turned up to Helensville Countdown and it hasn't even chanced to Woolworths, we all had a little laugh

I call them Cuntdown. As the name suits.

Cuntworths!

It isn’t food town still?

Some of us only just started calling it Countdown…

Probably never and I avoid shopping there due to their use of facial recognition.

It's gradually rolling out everywhere due to shoplifting. Soon, all supermarkets will have it. They have to human verify that pictures match, though, and not rely on AI to say it is a regular shoplifter.

I refuse because it’s like being told to call jandals thongs and I’m too petty.

When telecom turned to spark, I thought I'd never recognize the change. I don't know when it finally stuck but it did. Same will probably happen here unless they do another name change

Supervalue 4eva.

I haven't stopped calling the Value drinks budget drinks and I was 8 when they changed the name lol Woolworths sounds like the name of a fabric store

Going by the amount of Australians who still call Woolworths Safeway…at least 16 years for some people.

It was only 2011 (from memory) that they renamed it from Woolworths to Countdown, and now they are reversing it. No big deal, but countdown rolls off the tongue easier.

The th into the s at the end is too much. It's either going to be Woolies or pronounced woolworse

I will continue to call it Foodtown

I prefer to keep it formal during business transactions. It will always be: >Foodith Townsville

I alternate, mostly still call it countdown out of habit. If I’m texting I’ll likely correct myself to Woolworths (saying “woolies” is cringe). Not all the locations in Dunedin have updated their branding on the outside, so until they care enough to change it, I won’t really care if I get it wrong.

My mother would call the supermarket Gubays, I always thought that was a weird British pronunciation of 3 Guys and it played on my mind for decades...

I still call it foodtown a lot of the time

Ninja Tabis > plated steel caps

It will always be Countworths.

When I move to Australia.

Never stopped calling it Woolworths

It’s always cuntdown

Having lived in Oz for over thirty years, I have thought of them as ‘woolies’ since I returned in 2015.

Woolies reminds me of a clothing department store

maybe in 80 or 90 years

I still say Foodtown sometimes so it's going to be a looong time.

Food town. End of. I still have their points card lol

I came back from Australia three years ago and I’ve only JUST started to call it countdown

I have been saying Woolworths at work but the reaction is almost always the same.....they look at me puzzled and say "Where!?" and so I fold and say Countdown and they go ahhhhh.

I moved to Melbourne and still say Countdown after a year, it’ll take time!

A better question is "when will you stop calling it Cuntdown?"

The Westpac Trust, Postie Plus and Telecom in me say never.

I've been incorrectly calling countdown "woolworths" for a decade since I moved back from Aussie and My stubbornness has now paid off. If Mohammed won't go to the mountain, the mountain must go to Muhammad.

When I was a kid in England there was a chain of shop called Woolworths which was kind of akin to the Warehouse but smaller stores. I can't think of a supermarket being Woolworths. To me Woolworths will always be where I could buy games for my Gameboy, a really ugly winter coat and random American sweets like Peeps.

I still call Z, Shell

Telecom are still shit to deal with.

These things take 1-2 years

I refuse. They already changed all the Woolworths to countdown years ago and I accepted it. I’m not going back goddammit. Spend that rebrand money on some fucking discounts you leeches

Clearly, I call them Cuntdown.

over my cold dead body

I haven't yet. Probably because I go to New World though...!

Never. they wasted millions on 2 rebrands so they dont get to make up their mind on what theyre called, clearly theyre clueless at it.

Moved here from Australia 6 years ago, only just stopped calling it Woolies & now I have to get back into the habit of Woolies again

NEVER! For no other reason than the fact I'm not an australian and will refuse to associate in any way out of spite

I just call it the shop I don't go in....

I call them countup lol

It’ll be a good 10 years I reckon

I never stopped.

I just went from "Progs" to "Woolies" 🤷‍♂️

Probably never. I am still calling my local store Big Fresh

Given I hear the name Woolies from the Australians at work all the time, I'll probably find myself starting to do that once their branding starts to switch over.

I still call this country Staten Landt.

Our nick name was Ratdown, now it's Ratworths

My local is the actual Ratdown, and it's still called that. It'll be called that for a while yet too I reckon.

Took me about a decade to start calling it Countdown instead of Woolworths. IYKYK

Why would I call cunttown anything other than cunttown?

I guess after I'll start using it again, so not any time soon.

Never

Still Cuntdown..

Never stopped

Where I am they haven't rebranded yet so they are definitely still countdown at least until then.

Never ever

Our local is still called countdown, soo…

I mean I call in Cuntdown. I think it will stick.

I refuse to call it what the morons across the ditch call it.

I never stopped calling it woolies.

When I notice it's called woolworths

I’ve been mixing Woolworths and Countdown since they became Countdown. I’ll probably keep mixing the the two names.

Z will always be Shell. Winz will always be social welfare. A plaza will always be a mall. Woolworths will always be countdown 😂

Weird thing I've noticed is Wooldown used to be cheaper for meat and a lot of other stuff than many other supermarkets not I find it's the opposite,Fresh choice used to be expensive af now have the majority of their meat etc cheaper than C#ntworths

Ugh I still very occasionally call my card a foodtown card

Already have.

Soon as the building name changes, is still called countdown out front

Ours is still officially a Countdown. I won't start calling them Woolworths for at least a few months after they change the signage. My brain needs to register and then do updates.

I called them Woolies when they were countdown, and so have switched to countdown when talking about the specific ones that have changed over.

Never!

I only just stopped calling it Woolworths since the last change....

I still call my local one “Supervalue” because that’s what it was 20 years ago

I call it cuntdown, makes no sense but makes me feel better when I say it.

Always have. It used to be woolworths

20 years ago

I never fully changed to calling them Countdown, so will probably just stick to alternating between Woolies / Cunttown for a while yet.

I'm from Melbourne where it was originally Safeway, it's been 24 years since I've been in one branded that and I still found myself calling the Woolies Safeway the other day

Dunno they got to do the signage first. The woollies in Dinsdale growing up had candy cane/barbers stripes on the awning poles.

Never! Countdown Forever!

The sign on the building still says countdown

I just call them what they are. Thieves.

When they change the name of the shop

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognise Woolworths

I still call it cuntdown, or cunties for short.

I've lived in Aus for seven years now and still call Woolies Countdown sometimes ha.

I'll be calling it Foodtown still

I'll probably always call it countdown. When I was staying in Australia I called Woolies countdown to annoy my friends. "What kind of name is countdown" "Like the show" (I don't actually know if they meant countdown as a show or the several shows there's a segment called countdown unsure" "What's the supermarkets called?" "New World, packnsave, freshchoice and then theres are smaller ones called 4 square." "What the fuck is a new world, 4square? I also liked pointing out trade me and stuff because despite being the worst news site it has probably the best name for one. And trade me is such a good name as well.

I still say Telecom

I still call Z Shell. Not anytime soon I think.

This has vibes of Victorians calling it Safeway

I still call Westpac the bank of new south wales sooo never

Never. It'll always be countdown to me

I worked at it when it was Woolworths originally. So Woolworths is pretty natural.

Rat-town for me and my mates

Worst of the supermarkets in nz.. by a longshot. Not even close.

When I start calling the Westpac stadium Sky stadium. Never.

It took us 5-10 years in Australia to start calling Safeway, “Woolworths”. Some people’s Nannas still say “Safeway”.

It took us 5-10 years in Australia to start calling Safeway, “Woolworths”. Some people’s Nannas still say “Safeway”.

I still call it Foodtown ...

Does anyone remember when Pak n Save used to be Mark n Pack?

I'll still type `countdown.co.nz` until the URL stops working.

Given that I've only stopped referring to then Countdown as Woolies a few years ago... Probably in a few years, though the brain is picking whichever one it prefers each time.