Wow, memories.
We had both a Woolworth's and a Newberry's nearly side-by-side at the Northgate Mall in Seattle. (First post-war mall in the country, btw, in 1950. It was open-air until the early 70's.)
Back in the late 60's-early 70's I would get my weekly $1 allowance every Saturday, and head down there with my best friend. For a buck, I could get a hot dog or burger & small Coke at the lunch counter in Bartell Drugs, which is still a local chain around here (though they haven't had food service since probably 1980). If I happened to have a few cents more, which wasn't often, I could hit the much more fancy and expensive Woolworth's lunch counter and get a grilled cheese sandwich & Coke. I felt like big stuff if I ate there. Hobnobbing with the Rockefellers and such.
The only Woolworth's I know of now is in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Our Newberry's didn't have a lunch counter, but it did have a small pet department. I think I bought a turtle there once. I've read that they actually sold small monkeys at one time, back in the 50's.
Our Sears didn't serve food either, but it did have a chocolate & nut shop, oddly. Once in a while, my folks would splurge, and buy a 1/2 pound of something.
My father-in-law, who was one of the "thriftiest" people I ever knew, would walk the neighborhood garage sales on the lookout for broken Sears tools. He'd try to get it for free, or at least no more than 25 cents, then take it back to Sears and get a new replacement. Back then, they didn't ask for a receipt or quibble about how old the tool was. When he died in 1985, he must have had over $25K worth of tools in his garage, which his wife then sold at her own garage sale for pennies on the dollar. I'm sure he was spinning in his grave over that.