I dont think wow has made many mistakes in the past . My best...

I dont think wow has made many mistakes in the past . My best guess is that they purchased danks to get some economys of scale into warehousing operation. They will get many more wholesale customer coming from Mitre 10. The other point customers like bunning! because there are very few other options .Other than small dirty hardware stores.If wow can have a supply chain as good as thier other operations the cost savings will be massive in the hardware . If you know how bunnings supplys the stores ,each supplier delivers by courier from a pallet to a box. ( except import lines ) The cost of all these multi drops is massive. The argument from bunnings is goods are delivered free into store. Not really the freight is added to the cost of goods.The point about lowes is experince the big boxes came from the US bunning did not think of the idea . In the end only time will tell what happens nothing is a sure thing.