Upgrades are usually done in-place without the need to reinstall everything.

Probably best to just follow this https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/upgrading-ubuntu-desktop

From the email:

Hi Arnd and SoC folks,

New SoC platform, in the future this will be handled by Peter Griffin.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

Either a joke I don’t get, or very unfortunate name collision for that guy.

I also remember my mom driving over the boarder to shop there when I was a child, so that checks out for me

Looks like the “Voice of Retail Industry” survey the article cites only surveyed US-american stores.

The Australian Woolworth is a totally unrelated company.

In Germany the Woolworth GmbH was originally founded by the American Woolworth, but then sold off. The American one essentially died later.