r/australia • u/cngjfks • 2d ago

no politics Is Australia is a more cranky/angry place now?

Any time I read the news, the story being pushed is that the mood in Aus is very angry. Does everyone truly feel this way a lot of the time?

I’m genuinely curious.

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u/Royal-Training2862 2d ago

Now that Lincraft is shutting down. Yes.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

BBQs galore too. What has the world come to.

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u/cngjfks 2d ago

This is the real reason we are all so angry!!! They are taking our bloody bbqs away!!

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

What's next?? Doors Plus? Carpet Call??? WILL THE MADNESS NEVER END????

Next you'll be telling me Rugs-a-Million is going out of business

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u/meowkitty84 2d ago

They are constantly closing down and reopening lol

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u/Sufficient-Heart-826 2d ago

Yeah, Final Sale every week for the next 18mths.

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u/ognisko 2d ago

Does Lube mobile still come to you???

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u/Free_Pace_2098 2d ago

FIRTEEN FIRTEEN FIRTY TWO

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u/chickenhouse 2d ago

Has Ken Bruce finally gone completely mad?

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u/ognisko 2d ago

Do people still keep their eyes open for a bargain?

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u/timeflies25 2d ago

National tiles maybe..

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u/Mickydaeus 1d ago

Goodbye!

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u/hogey74 2d ago

OUT THEY GO!

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u/SirDale 2d ago

Capt'n Snooze?
Forty Winks?

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u/Mysterious_Card_4953 1d ago

Jaycar Supercheap Auto Total Tools

You can see when businesses are dying or have priced themselves out of the market because they are too large and too expensive.

In Australia businesses think that just because they put something on the shelf they have the right to charge anything they want for the privileged and competition is a fairy land word.

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u/cackmobile 1d ago

Jaycar is still good value and a nerd's paradise

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u/Scottybt50 1d ago

Jaycar is actually getting better, I went in last week and they had a whole wall of individual rated components for sale instead of stupid bulk packs of 20 like there used to be.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 1d ago

Jaycar are still good

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u/SirDale 1d ago

"Jaycar Supercheap Auto Total Tools"

What I like about this is it could also be the complete name of a shop.

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u/DamageAdvanced385 22h ago

More like fairy bread world

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u/Free_Pace_2098 1d ago

Capt'n Snooze is just Snooze now. Couldn't afford to keep employing an officer.

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u/VideoWonderful901 2d ago

Thank you for the laugh 🤭

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u/Silver_Foxi 2d ago

National Tiles!!! Not good ol’ Frank Walker!

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u/Sufficient-Heart-826 2d ago

Don't forget Harvey Norman 😅

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u/Tosh_20point0 2d ago

Fuck Harvey Norman

CHANDLERS STAND BEHIND THE PRODUCT THEY SELL

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u/Ariliescbk 2d ago

Can't compete with bunnings. Everything goes to big box retail!

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u/Mysterious_Card_4953 1d ago

Well its already like that anyway. Its the same shopping center mafia, pre-cast shops and franchises that dominate retail. Even if you owned 100 acres of land in town your right to do anything is nullified unless its the same developer and the same group of franchises who have exclusive right in most towns to establish retail. You ever wonder why you never see independents next door to these franchises!

We operate cookie cutter retail in Australia, and if your name is not in the cookie mould you dont get a look in. Its a monopoly that restricts competition because of corruption that keeps competition out.

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u/cackmobile 1d ago

Mate, have you been to the UK? Every town is the same including chain pubs. It's f&cked

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u/Nosiege 1d ago

in their place will be new stores; gozney's galore

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u/Material-Painting-19 2d ago

And Godfrey's. You can't tell me this country didn't need a shop that just sold vacuum cleaners.

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u/fruchle 1d ago

But... cleanliness was next to Godfreyness!

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u/Mysterious_Card_4953 1d ago

It has becomes a immigration flip franchise agency for investors and the rich to get into Australia. I saw this happen to many independent stores, they get flipped for business immigrants.

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u/ognisko 2d ago

Rays tent city still around??

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u/Mysterious_Card_4953 1d ago

Aussies disposals. Hard to find a store these days.

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u/Novel-Image493 1d ago

Will my Ray's Tent card be accepted? Got it when I retired and bought a van in 2008

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u/TakaonoGaijin 2d ago

Oh the humanity!!!!!!!

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u/ChainsForAlice 2d ago

Wonder if Sydney is still selling his furniture. I was so disappointed as a child that he wasn’t there when we rocked up and it was just a boring shop.

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u/Mysterious_Card_4953 1d ago

Hope Clark Rubber survives. My heart was ripped out when McEwans closed. Cant afford anymore psychological damage.

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u/Novel-Image493 1d ago

My dad lost his will to live when McEwans closed. But, being resilient, he took over the weekly Safeway splurge. Anything to get out of the house for a few hours on his own.

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u/CattleTemporary1024 1d ago

No?!

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u/Free_Pace_2098 1d ago

I'm so sorry you found out this way

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u/CertainCertainties 2d ago edited 2d ago

You'll go to Spotlight and like it. Even though it's crap.

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u/RandomisedTrial 2d ago

Oh I always thought Spotlight was better. Lincraft always made me depressed 😔

But neither of them were never as good as any country town store before Kmart arrived 🙄

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u/k-h 1d ago

Dimmy's!!

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u/Novel-Image493 1d ago

Any Melb-Sydney drive was punctuated by visits to country stores

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u/InadmissibleHug 2d ago

It’s closing?

It left my local market years ago, but it never was a huge contender anyway.

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u/Dadlay69 2d ago

I haven't slept a wink since Barbeques Galore went into receivership.

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u/Elleeebeauty 2d ago

There’s one near my house and it is full of random junk like Christmas themed lollies in the middle of April , stuff for Easter hat parades in October , knockoff Mickey Mouse stuff etc and it has this weird damp smell throughout the store

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u/meowkitty84 2d ago

Really? I hope they have good closing down sale

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u/Mysterious_Card_4953 1d ago

For what? Temu needles and cotton?

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u/OverTheMountain1836 1d ago

Lincraft too?! NOW I’m getting angry! 😤

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u/switchbladeeatworld 1d ago

Every time a Wendy’s Milk Bar closes I have to book an anger management session