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| Company type | Subsidiary of Woolworths |
|---|---|
| Genre | Large Format Store |
| Predecessors | |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Defunct | 2004 |
| Fate | Format abandoned, re-branded as Woolworths |
| Successors | |
| Headquarters | England, United Kingdom |
Number of locations | 21 |
Area served | United Kingdom |
| Products | General merchandise |
| Owner | Kingfisher (1998–01) Woolworths (2001–2004) |
| Parent | Woolworths Group |
| Subsidiaries | Out-of-Town Stores |
| Website | bigw.co.uk (Archive of former site from late 2003) |
Big W (later named Woolworths Big W) was a British retail chain owned by the Kingfisher Group (later Woolworths Group PLC) in the United Kingdom, which operated between 1998 and 2004. Big W stores were large format out-of-town megastores that featured products from all of Kingfisher's main retail chains at the time, consisting of Comet, B&Q, Superdrug and Woolworths.
Following the split of Kingfisher, alongside low sales and poor financial results, Woolworths scrapped the Big W format in 2004, selling a quarter of the stores off while keeping the rest, operating them in a smaller format known as Woolworths Out-of-Town Stores. These stores remained in operation until the administration and closure of Woolworths in 2008.