Hello everyone

Today i have a good news story for your reading pleasure

It involves fishing
and Tiger Bens affinity with Bunnings?

Bunnings you may ask

Yes i use them for protection from the hot as Australian sun ,
as i  have two of their finest Chinese straw hats in Tiger Ben for special occasions.

I get to sometimes take out a verity different people and friends of friends sometimes for their first fishing trip or just their first offshore adventure ,in Tiger Ben
at time to time

This particular day there was me and Ben and one new guest
To protect his identity we will call him Uncle Rob for the storyline

I had never before met this man but he is a distant relative of Bens
And It was such a beautiful day

Not too much swell or chop so we had a pretty low flying fast run out to my favourite fishing holes
No chance of a chat at all ,
as like usual
i had the music absolutely pumping

Not sure what my guest was thinking but care factor absolutely zero

I believe that we sort of got straight on top of the fish and we were all hooking in and its then the conversation started

Interesting

I asked Uncle Rob what he did for a job
Turns out  he is one of the bosses at Bunnings

I  then got a bit offside with him and  proceeded to to tell him what i thought of their tactics when they came to Wonthaggi and they smashed Mitre Ten 
for an absolute six

Then Once they had market share the prices rose and the in-store  help almost stopped

Uncle Rob defended Bunnings ,
and said that that was not their intention

I said bullshit
They did exactly ,
as was in their plan

They not only closed a local business but all they sell me now is cheep and now ,
not so cheep ,
Chinese landfill.

I said that i watched with great interest when Safeway fuel came to town years earlier and tried to shut everyone down to gain market share with their fancy rewards card discounts they undercut everyone else by miles and  they waited.

Their plan completely failed as they came up against my boss mafia  Mick and the Evens’es
He stood his ground and took them on on a fuel war was on and happening on my doorstep

The people were pretty oblivious to what Safeway tried to do
Most had no idea what was going on
They liked the cheep fuel

But i did
And Mick beat them

But they do say if you cant beat them join then
So a new fuel cartel was borne

Uncle Rob thought for a moment and he said to me
We don’t actually have a choice Curly
If you could fill our shelves with reasonable priced Australian made goods
We will stock and happily sell them  all straight away

We at Bunnings would love to sell  mostly Australian goods

I think then we talked about the Save Australia Card  and the points system
He thought that was a wonderful idea

We then discussed the buy Australian sticker labelling system
Uncle Rob loved that touch and he approved of my idea .

He had a absolute ball fishing 

We bagged out
And  we helped save the world 

And both had a bit more of an understanding of customers and business tactics
And me to go with it a hand full of flattie  spikes and a big wry smile from ear to ear as i dreamed of the future

And we sped all the way back to Newhaven

Killy pub to wash down the deal

Id say its a good day out

Hmm
I wonder who my next mystery guest is going to be ???

Can you guess  lol 

Cheers xxx
Curlyg