@Joshi
It’s also less and less of a hardware store and more and more a crappy homewares store. If you need actual hardware—timber, metal, proper tools etc—or god forbid, advice then you are out of luck if a hammerbarn has killed all the hardware stores in your area. @shinyrat
There are other ways to source your hardware and tools.
Discount Stores and Home/Mitre 10/Total Tools/Sydney Tools/etc are still around.
Wholesale material suppliers are often willing to sell Retail as long as you don’t waste their staffs time. The One True Monopsony (Amazon) also sell most of the stuff from Bunnings, cheaper.
Also AliExpress and Temu have most of the small consumables at a much competitive price. Just remember that some of it will be eWaste in a few months, but that goes for any electronics purchased from anywhere.
The main benefit of Bunnings is that they are open long hours and have lowest-common-denominator products that aren’t too overpriced
Also, you buy a sausage made of sawdust and beef fat on the way out (very tasty, although not very healthy.)
@Joshi
It’s also less and less of a hardware store and more and more a crappy homewares store. If you need actual hardware—timber, metal, proper tools etc—or god forbid, advice then you are out of luck if a hammerbarn has killed all the hardware stores in your area.
@shinyrat
There are other ways to source your hardware and tools. Discount Stores and Home/Mitre 10/Total Tools/Sydney Tools/etc are still around.
Wholesale material suppliers are often willing to sell Retail as long as you don’t waste their staffs time. The One True Monopsony (Amazon) also sell most of the stuff from Bunnings, cheaper.
Also AliExpress and Temu have most of the small consumables at a much competitive price. Just remember that some of it will be eWaste in a few months, but that goes for any electronics purchased from anywhere.
The main benefit of Bunnings is that they are open long hours and have lowest-common-denominator products that aren’t too overpriced Also, you buy a sausage made of sawdust and beef fat on the way out (very tasty, although not very healthy.)