My Mother and I visited Bunnings Warehouse at Bankstown Airport, Sydney, NSW, Australia on 22nd August 2023 and we had a look at the whole store in a hurry! Yes, even 3 hours were not enough! However, I’m glad I could film a bit of the store for you all.
Below is some information that I found on Wikipedia in regard to Bunnings:
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware and garden centre chain. The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand.
Bunnings was founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1886, by brothers Arthur and Robert Bunning, who had emigrated from England. Initially, a limited company focused on saw-milling, it became a public company in 1952 and subsequently expanded into the retail sector, purchasing several hardware stores. Bunnings began to expand into other states in the 1990s and opened its first warehouse-style store in Melbourne in 1994. As of 2022, the chain has 381 stores and over 53,000 employees.
Bunnings has a market share of around 50 percent in the Australian do it yourself (DIY) hardware market, with competing chains including Mitre 10, Home Hardware and various independent retailers such as Agora Marketplace and Total Tools around Australia.
Bunnings runs community events outside or in its stores, including sausage sizzles and do it yourself workshops.
Since the development of the Bunnings Warehouse stores, three general operational formats exist Bunnings Small-format Store (SFS), Bunnings Warehouse (WH) and Bunnings Trade Centre (TC). The smaller “Bunnings” stores stock a more limited range of hardware, whereas the larger “Bunnings Warehouses” contain a more comprehensive hardware range and garden supplies, including plants. The big box format accounts for 167 stores of the network of 280.
Bunnings Warehouse offers a variety of additional services, both in-home and in-store. The in-home services are mainly installations, assembling, quotes and consultancy for multiple products. The in-store services include a hire shop, spare parts enquiry, colour matching, key cutting, pool water testing and gas swapping.
Bunnings also provides gardening, craft, and woodwork do it yourself (DIY) workshops for children in-store, as well as for other groups in schools, nursing homes, and hospitals. The Bunnings staff are available to community groups for assistance with DIY projects.
Sausage sizzles
On weekends (and weekdays at some sites), Bunnings outlets regularly host sausage sizzles and cake stalls for community groups and causes.It has become an intrinsic part of the Bunnings Warehouse brand, and iconic in Australian culture.
In 2018, chief operating officer Debbie Poole sparked a public debate when she suggested “onion be placed underneath sausages to help prevent the onion from falling out and creating a slipping hazard”. She insisted it would not “impact the delicious taste or great feeling you get when supporting your local community group”.
House brands of Bunnings include:
Click: Electrical fittings and accessories (Australian and New Zealand)
Matador: Barbecues and accessories
Saxon: Gardening and landscaping products
Eiger Electrical: Electrical fittings and accessories (UK and Ireland)