Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 7m 4d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 28/12/12 01:17 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 01:17 AM If you want to compete you need to be aggressive and you need to make money at the expense of smaller businesses. Bunnings are most guilty of this...Boom Tish.. Way to hang your own store.. I don't agree with it.. but unfortunately it's right.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Member 573 Member For: 16y 7m 1d Gender: Male Posted 28/12/12 01:30 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 01:30 AM I don't work for them anymore, not for a few weeks now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 3m 19d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 28/12/12 03:58 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 03:58 AM 40,000 at the expense of probably 100,000 people being put OUT of work...is easy to create a marketing speal but a lot harder to see the bigger picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Velocity_ Bronze Donating Members 2,768 Member For: 13y 10m 8d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 28/12/12 05:25 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 05:25 AM Not being at the mercy of eBay or any other Internet seller makes life easier though for this particular retailer. Maybe Harvey Norman should look at selling doorknobs, lightglobes, manure and fertilizer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,435 Member For: 15y 2m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 28/12/12 06:13 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 06:13 AM the supermarkets are taking overhavey norman buying out the smaller stores like clive petersdick smith closing stores, cant remember why?looks like survival of the fittest out there geez!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Member 573 Member For: 16y 7m 1d Gender: Male Posted 28/12/12 08:14 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 08:14 AM Supermarkets are finally getting it right IMO. Good fresh offer, better range and more stock. Not all but you can see in Coles' last year results they are doing something right. Best mate was COO for Clive Peters a few years ago and saw the writing on the walk regarding large appliance retailers back then. With the strength of the Aussie $$ and price deflation it will be an age before hard goods retailers see comps. Take TVs for example. Not even 12 months ago you would have paid $2500 for the same tv that can now be had closer to $1000. So now you're having to sell 2-3 flat screens to achieve the sane amount of turnover. Officeworks where I am now are 40% behind last years numbers in computer sales. Selling roughly the same number of units but the average price has dropped so sharply you simply can't sell enough to maintain high net turnover. As prices go down so does margin and ATM most electrical retails are operating at negative margin on a lot if products just to stay in the game. This is obviously why Woolies sold off Dicksmiths and are probably dancing around the Xmas tree thanking their lucky stars that they dodged a huge bullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,435 Member For: 15y 2m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 28/12/12 10:18 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 10:18 AM officeworks are behind in computer sales as you cant bargain with them, and are usually more expensive. and I go there to buy paper and pens not computers :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 7m 4d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 28/12/12 10:26 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 10:26 AM I disagree as office works price match anything and let you search the prices online.One of my mates convinced them to price match a duty free store.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Member 573 Member For: 16y 7m 1d Gender: Male Posted 28/12/12 10:33 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 10:33 AM You're correct Panda, they have to and will price match anything. Even online you just have to add the shipping as most online stores these days give you killer prices but charge through the nose on freight. Yesterday I authorised a $129 router to go out at $49 price matched against Netcomm. Laptop at $699 against jbs $499 minus the 5% of course. They will ALWAYS be cheaper but like I said earlier more often than not its up to the consumer to do their homework. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossmang FREAKY Donating Members 12,435 Member For: 15y 2m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 28/12/12 10:37 AM Share Posted 28/12/12 10:37 AM $129 router for $49?how much mark up on that thing fark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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