• JoshiEnglish
    16·
    9 hours ago

    I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.

    It’s a total monopoly that has run all of it’s competition out of business and over the past 20 years has become progressively shitter at customer service.

    I miss other hardware stores 😔

    • stib@aus.social
      5·
      6 hours ago

      @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

    • iktEnglish
      21·
      4 hours ago

      I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.

      For me:

      I go into giant warehouse size of small city

      find what i want, price is decent

      i go through self checkout and leave

      👍

      everytime I’ve been has been fine? except when I look for a small widget that has 10 in stock on the website but there’s none on the shelf because scumbags have stolen them all but 99% of the time it’s fine

      • Joel Michael@aus.social
        2·
        5 hours ago

        @mativity @Joshi @shinyrat yup, Mitre 10 and Home Hardware are both still around (now the same company that also owns Total Tools). Also, a Bowen’s building supplies opened up in the old Bunnings nearby after they moved out to an even bigger store.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      26·
      11 hours ago

      Well, not really they have face recognition on the entrance to see if you match one of the scum bags beating their staff or stealibg shit and it’s deleted, there’s no tracking. If you do match there security staff are alerted.

      Taking them at their word, your image is deleted after 0.2s and they have no idea who you are anyway. Your anonumous scan just doest match said scum bag.

      I’m ok with it if what they say happens does happen, an audit by the privacy commissioner should conform that either way and then thy can clear them or expose them. Instead they just said don’t do it.

      It’s nothing like biomteric scans at airports where who you are is matched to your facial scan.