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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6
This is pretty much me now as well. I would once run all over town trying to get what I needed, it was a giant waste of time that often was lost productivity that I wasn't being paid for.
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In the end their offering is quite simple. Almost everything you could possibly want under the one roof, geared towards the average Aussie at reasonable price.
At some point someone was going to do it. Someone at Wesfarmers had the vision, they had the money, the right timing and it just worked. Just as surely as it could have failed.
I have no doubt they targeted the traditional hardware store to gain market share, but I think all they did was hasten the funeral.
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Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6
I can only comment on what I observed over 20-years working for an independent business, but it's easy to assume that the owners were being greedy with their considerable price premiums.
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My opinion stems from specifically here in Hervey Bay.
Towards the end of covid and post covid there was a massive influx of "southerners" who sold up big and bought all that money here. Alot of money. And they splashed it around without care. All the little shops realised they could charge almost what they want and these people would just pay.
So the prices for everything went up and that's where they stayed. And this was before the covid tax and inflation we all know from recent years.
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Originally Posted by Crazy Dazz
Wow, thanks for pointing out the bleeding obvious.
As I said, they "skate around the law."
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Skating around the law would imply there was a law there to skirt.
But since no such law exists, then there is nothing to "skate" around. They can just do it, with the appropriate warnings.