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Originally Posted by The Yeti

We had a fantastic independently owned hardware store less than 3km from my front gate, you couldn't pull in there and buy a sling of timber, but if you rang him before lunch on Thursday you would have it on your lawn when you got home Friday

unfortunately he shut the doors on June 30 last year because too many locals were driving past his door to go to bun-yips

we have a home and a miter 10 but they're further away than bunnings, I put in the hard yards and went to the Miter 10 a few months back to get some paint, after the chick finished telling friends the story of her sons year 10 formal and finally asked if she could help me she told me that they didn't get that special in, (6L cans of exterior paint) and wasn't willing to help me with 3 X 4L cans of exactly the same paint, I left and unfortunately I had no option but to go to bunnings on my way home who bettered the miter 10's special price

bwa ha ha.... what did the paint chick look like?

I'm guessing that is thw windsor mitre 10?- I will tell you a tale of that Mitre 10. My brother was the retail manager up until 2012. The owner got in a consultant - we'll call him Mick - who redid the store pricing based on his "successful formula" - which meant jacking up the prices & reducing available stock. This is "successful" in rural areas where bunnings & masters are non existant - not so much when the bunnings is less than 5 mins away. This so-called consultant had a track record of doing this to other small hardware stores, then buying them when they failed & selling them to, you guessed it, bunnings. The only store which got wise was Canada Bay hardware, who turfed him.

They are slowly going down the tube though....... geez I wont hate that when they close!

btw, who was the independent guy?