Thread: Masters Home Improvement Shops

Originally Posted by dullbird

Bunnings is like a messy shed...its cluttered

What's wrong with a messy shed?

I've installed evaps in bunnings
About 60 amps FLC
I've installed packaged ac units in masters
600 amps FLC
Lucky they are about 5 stage comps
The precast walls are all lined with fridge panels about 120mm
It is white and bright
They do have a reasonable selection of ht bolts
Dc

Originally Posted by disco gazza

I've got 2 Buntings,one near the M4 and one on the other side of the railway(which is the closest to me) plus a Mitre 10.
The Mitre 10 has mostly timber/nails etc,where the Buntings is full of all the stuff they stock.

You forgot Hudsons just up the road from the Bunnings North Penrith

Originally Posted by modman

I've installed evaps in bunnings
About 60 amps FLC
I've installed packaged ac units in masters
600 amps FLC
Lucky they are about 5 stage comps
The precast walls are all lined with fridge panels about 120mm
It is white and bright
They do have a reasonable selection of ht bolts
Dc

Bunnings have started to put A/C in?

What brand of RTU are Master using?

Don't have much choice around where I am...

I mean, all 3 of the Bunnings stores around me are up to a 10 min drive away.. :P

And, I have 1 of each flavour. Small, Medium & Large.

That said, I will shop between them & Stratco for whatever we need. Masters not being an option for us.

Never had a problem with the Bunnings staff. But that said, I don't tend to visit much on the weekends unless I have to. I will quite often go down after dinner, when there are 3 staff for every customer.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

First and only time I went into Masters (just for a looksee) I walked up to the checkout with a couple of hundred dollars worth of purchases in my arms.
"We don't accept Visa debit cards" she said.
"If my money isn't good enough for you, then your store isn't good enough for me." and with that I walked out the door never to return.
I'll not be spending my hard earned there.

Mm interesting as they do accept Visa and Amex and dinners.

So must not have liked the look of you :-).

Originally Posted by dullbird

I much prefer Masters to Bunnings, stuff in Masters is easier to find, the isles are nice, wide and bright and you don't feel like your walking around a dungeon...

and Masters DO have more than bunnings from my experience.

its just a far more pleasant shopping experience. Bunnings is just outdated, they have likely done the same thing with the store year in year out and it shows...

Bunnings is like a messy shed...its cluttered

Well that's is because you are their target market.

Master made their stores for women and not men . They made the bright , clean looking,lots of pictures and explanations , cool with AC and easy to find stuff.

They knew that when a bloke says I am going to bunnings the wife says god I am not going there go on your own . Where as they wanted women to go into Masters hence why they are set up like they are.

And as a person that deals with them they picked it right and are doing good business and Bunnings are very very worried.

well they did there marketing well..I didnt have an issues going in to bunnings.

and I dont think they just did it for women however I think they did it for women too well as I believe they are having a hard time getting the tradies in because it looks "Too clean", which is probably why the masters I have near work often holds a free tradie breafast before 7am