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It's the Bunnings slogan everyone's heard - a promise to beat a competitor's price on the same stocked item by 10 per cent.

But there's a catch to the hardware giant's famous price guarantee.

While Coles and Woolworths have been under intense scrutiny, Bunnings - which has a much higher profit margin than either of them - has mostly escaped attention.

In-store, a 0.9m Citeco ladder sits behind a large red sign with the same commitment: Find a competitor with the same in-stock item - 10 per cent off.

But there is no competitor that stocks the Citeco 0.9m ladder.

That's because Citeco is a Bunnings home brand. Not only is it manufactured for Bunnings, the hardware giant also owns the Citeco trademark.

It's far from the only item.

Through the trademark register and questions to Bunnings, Four Corners has found the hardware giant has more than 9000 home-brand products.

If you can find these Bunnings buckets cheaper elsewhere, Bunnings says it will beat the price.

Some big drama happening on the old site, except you need to be logged in to access the subreddit, and I can't remember my password for my account.

I'd love to know what actually went wrong here, and what products they were using.

It's remarkably easy to get smoke and flames when you screw up mixing resin, entire buildings have been lost due to mistakes like that.

I wonder if this technology could be used to resurrect the Moa and the Haast eagle?

Coning should be one of our national sports, what an achievement.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9701311

A little joke by the New Zealand based gaming studio Ninja Kiwi.

• The game is called Bloon Tower Defense 6.
• The flags don't have game play impact it is just cosmetic / decoration.
• The money to buy the flags can be earned by playing. No real life money involved.

Horse owners are some of the most self righteous people I've ever come across, I've never seen a group of people who expect so many concessions from those around them, but are utterly unwilling to do the bare minimum in return.

And like hell am I running out with a shovel and a bucket if a horse shits outside my house.

If you haven't heard it look it up. I will give you an example of it.

My mom got an email from Sky telling her she should get a new sky box for free. Unbeknownst to me she replies and in a few days she get a new sky box in the mail.

She calls me up and I set it up for her. It requires a login to the wifi so it can update itself so I do that. Then it wants a google login because who knows why so I skip that part. After about a half hour to 45 minutes it's done. I package up the old box and drop it off for mailing.

My mom tries to use it and it's a disaster. The TV listing is really small and she can't read it. I look around in the settings and there is no way to make the fonts bigger so she basically had to stand up, walk closer to the TV to be able to change channels. Then she is having with the tiny remote and the stupid wheel thingie.

I write a support email asking how to make the fonts bigger but hear nothing back. After a couple of days of hearing my mom complain constantly I try the chat support. After waiting a long while I get connected to a person whose name is spelled weird but the chat disconnects before the issue is resolved. I try again and keep getting connected to weird name spellings and keep getting disconnected.

I then call support to find out that there are 21 people waiting in front of me so I hunker down and after about half an hour I finally get connected to somebody. After going back and forth for a while sky agrees to send another old box to my mom so she can get back to being able to watch TV and use the remote.

Enshittification.

I got to be in a safety video!

This is a short video on why a river boat isn't safe to take out on open water, why a spray skirt is essential, and what happens without the right gear.

There's only one organisation that operates NH90 helicopters, and it's the RNZAF.

I feel people like this probably get spooked by their cat on a regular basis too.

As per title, does anyone know what they're up to?

Bot has been becoming increasingly frustrated and saddened with the moderation and community of lemmy.world, especially how it treats neopronoun users. FlyingSquid is a dickhead. Bot's good friend recommended lemmy.nz to bot, so bot deleted bot's .world account and remade it here, where hopefully people aren't assholes to those who use neopronouns for no good reason.

The straw to break the camel's back was when bot wanted to comment on one of drag's posts and couldn't find it; since the post was about bot, bot wanted to post a clarifying piece of information. The friend informed bot that when someone is banned from .world, even temporarily, then none of their posts can be seen by anyone on .world. That seems like strange and bad censorship to bot, so bot decided enough was enough.

A UK article with some interesting facts and info about plastic recycling.

Coming to Westfield Newmarket.

I’m an absolute sucker for Cinnabons and make it my mission to have one if I’m ever in the states. I will say that the mini Costco ones have been good to tie me over but nothing beats the real deal.

This guy sound like such an utter tosser.

I'm guessing the author doesn't know the difference between a BB gun and a pellet gun/air rifle, because I doubt a BB would reliably kill a pigeon.

Yup.

Looking at the photos, it definitely looks like a body from a distance, I don't blame anyone for making that mistake.

On March 18, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station in the east Antarctic recorded the largest spike in temperature ever recorded with the region experiencing a rise of 38.5C above its seasonal average.

Unfortunately, it's not an isolated event with an increasing number of meteorologic anomalies being reported on the continent in the past two years.

The sea level rise map that was linked is interesting, I propose Hamilton to be the new international airport since both Auckland and Wellington's will be underwater

Our grey mini lop made friends with a wild rabbit. We now have 6 x breed mini lops

Great that Ukraine is now getting western aircraft to go with their tanks, armoured vehicles, and artillery.

Such great service from Aramex. Definitely a suitable place to put a parcel marked as fragile in winter. Never mind that the front porch was only 3 metres away.

For some bizarre reason, the algorithm behind the adverts on Tinder has decided that what I need in my life is a 135 hp, 13 ton tractor.

I have absolutely no need for this, it would barely fit on my section, and I certainly don't need it for work.

This is the only advert I've seen for weeks on Tinder.

Catching the bus is my main way to get into the city centre, though on rare occasions I drive or e-scooter. I found that catching the bus is sometimes useful on short trips, such as going to the bakery (if the bus is every 10 minutes). Really great for me since I don't have a job right now, but if I get a job again I'll need a car, because employers insist.

I don't like owning a car because other tenants can suddenly move in and block me off with their car, which they expect to park on the driveway too. All the nearby streets have problems with parking. An e-scooter would suit me most of the time. I could sell my car, buy an e-scooter, motorcycle helmet, rain-repelling pants and gumboots. ** Just a couple of problems:**

1. safety - a guy I know recently had an accident in the Opawa/Sydenham area and broke his shoulder + other bones. I was told that he wasn't hit by a car, apparently he lost traction and fell off. Maybe he was going 30 km/ph if not 40 km/ph, but I don't know. Based on the injuries he wouldn't have been going under 20 km/ph.

2. winter - traction problems and visibility at their worst, potentially for months. So far, this winter has been mild. Most times 11am - 5pm are good temperature for an e-scooter, without too much moisture on the road. Next winter might be colder and less suitable for an e-scooter.

I could use the bus in winter, borrow a car from family, or rent a Zilch vehicle for 4 hours every 1-2 weeks. Everything else should be possible on a scooter, most days. Part of the trick is to buy a large enough backpack from the Army & Outdoors store!

Transport in Christchurch is troublesome, because of the city's one storey high design. Employers expect me to pay for fuel and then drive several kilometres to get to work, because there's no way I can find a rental that's near a job, or which has a suitable bus route for getting to a job. With the increases to rent, fuel and food, I think I'll give up driving before I give up anything else. To hell with what employers expect.

So I guess the reason I made this thread is to speculate that I'll be one of the test subjects for e-scooter ownership in Christchurch. I'm not a competitive, angry person who tries to flex on other road users. I used to speed constantly in a Mazda mx5 without giving a damn but now I drive a more modest vehicle, and I notice how many people overtake me even when I'm driving slightly above the limit. Sometimes I like to drive 30 or 40 km/ph on narrow streets because I don't want to kill a cat or someone's child. It may be legal to drive at 50km/ph but that's not always safe. Luckily, motorists are surprisingly courteous on narrow roads when they are forced to yield or get through a small gap.

Affordable apartments (complete with bikesheds) are still 5 or 10 years away, so I expect that public transport won't get more routes or become much more popular. E-scooters may be the fix we require. I'd rather ride my bike but I can't store that in my bedroom. Most boarding houses are just a bedroom and nothing else, so I think an e-scooter is the way to go.

If it makes me unemployable to some employers that's just too bad. In the current situation I doubt I'll save up enough money to buy a car again (cue for someone to suggest I buy a piece of shit for $1,000)

We have to move with the times and accept that not everybody can own a car and afford a place to park it, where it won't be blocked off by new tenants moving in, who also wish to use the driveway. We've been warned since last year that 91 fuel could reach $3 a litre and we're only a few months away from that. If I give up my car this spring-summer-autumn it will save me at least $1,000 on insurance and fuel. Not even that much, but I think the lifestyle change will be the selling point. I just hope I don't get killed lol