A Woolworths and Fujitsu initiative

Mini Woolies

Mini Woolies opens at Omnia Inclusive Solutions in Albury - Image Credit Dallas Kilponen

The Mini Woolies Initiative

Woolworths has partnered with Fujitsu launching the Mini Woolies program with schools and adult learning centres specialising in educating students with intellectual disabilities, sensory disabilities, and autism.

Each store replicates all aspects of a Woolworths supermarket, including baskets for fresh food, shelving for groceries, ticketing, signage, and Woolworths branded uniforms.

At check out, grocery items are scanned using fully operational Fujitsu registers, creating skills such as customer service, money handling and organising, when bagging of items - all contributing to literacy and numeracy skills.

By June this year, the Mini Woolies program will inform and educate over 1,000 students and job seekers across the country and for 2022, Woolworths and Fujitsu have committed to launch 20 miniature stores.

Michael Farrell, Principal at St Edmund’s College and St Gabriel’s School said: “The practical application of both Eddie and Gabe’s Fresh Food provides the required outcomes for financial literacy and numeracy, language and communication skills, decision making and problem-solving skills for our students.”


Mini-Woolworths - St Gabes - Image Credit Dallas Kilponen

Hear from our Mini Woolies Ambassador Kiara

Take a look at our Mini-Woolies Ambassador, Kiara Misciagna and her experience with the program. Kiara gained the skills and confidence needed to work in a retail position with Woolworths. Watch a short snippet of her journey here.

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Hear the inspirational stories behind the Mini Woolies initiative

A joint initiative between Woolworths and Fujitsu Australia to launch Mini Woolies shopfronts around Australia, providing students and young adults with ranging disabilities the opportunity to gain hand-on experience working in and shopping at simulated Woolworths supermarkets. See how the life changing program began, behind the scenes of each site launch, and how the program is creating real and impactful change in communities around Australia.

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The Mini Woolies Project

Hear from Woolworths, Fujitsu, and special guests about the Mini Woolies initiative, a community-focussed collaboration that brings fully functioning, simulated Woolworths stores to disability schools for educational support.

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The Mini Woolies Store Openings

Mini Woolies: A Woolworths and Fujitsu initiative
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